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BE Sustainable Episode 9: Finding the 'I' in Sustainability, Pt.2 - with Jenny Davidson and Sheri-Leigh Miles

March 25, 2025 • UCEM

For all the emphasis our sector places on shiny new tools and materials, we'll only be able to realise a sustainable built environment if we successfully engage one thing: people.

In the latest two-part feature of the BE Sustainable podcast, Mike Speight is joined by Jenny Davidson and Sheri-Leigh Miles, co-hosts of the Sustainability Sprints podcast. With their expertise they explore the challenges of embedding and operationalising sustainability at both an organisational level and across the sector as a whole, and how helping people identify what sustainability means to them is the key to driving change.

Listen to the podcast via:

- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ucem/id1524980861

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Czk2mZlZmknjUZfwLmLTa

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/universitycollegeofestatemanagement

Guests

Jenny Davidson

Jenny is the Co-Chair for the Sustainability Committee at Newcastle University. She has 25 years of experience working in sustainability, initially in the private sector before moving into higher education 10 years ago. Alongside her role as Co-Chair, is the Exec MBA Programme Director at Newcastle University Business School, and Non Executive Director at FIRST, a learning and development agency. Alongside Sheri-Leigh Miles, she is also co-host of the Sustainability Sprints podcast.

Sheri-Leigh Miles

Sheri-Leigh is the Founder and Director of NETpositive Futures, a micro business based in Yorkshire that helps organisations and teams understand how sustainability links to organisational excellence. She has worked in sustainability for 25 years, and alongside her role at NETpositive Futures is the Founder and Director of Go4Growth, and Group Administrator for the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) Sustainability Network.