Staff and HR

Dewi Day – Sustainability Advisor, ded17@aber.ac.uk 

Jessica Farmer – Sustainability Officer, jef38@aber.ac.uk

Prof. Neil Glasser – Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (with responsibility for Sustainability), nfg@aber.ac.uk 

Prof. Tim Woods - Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning, Teaching and Student Experience (with responsibility for sustainability in the curriculum), tww@aber.ac.uk

Claire Williams - Health, Safety & Environmental Manager, maw70@aber.ac.uk 

Sarah Hawkins – Health, Safety and Environment Officer, aih@aber.ac.uk

Llyr Jones - Health, Safety & Environmental Advisor, dlj10@aber.ac.uk 

Lee Pereira– Procurement Manager (with responsibility for Sustainable Procurement), lep27@aber.ac.uk 

Tom Bates - Head of Facilities Management (with responsibility for General Waste Management), tgb@aber.ac.uk 

Ed Woodyet - Waste Management Coordinator (with responsibility for General Waste Management), edw14@aber.ac.uk

Jeremy Mabbutt – Head of Hospitality Services (with responsibility for Sustainable Food), jem11@aber.ac.uk 

Bayanda Vundamina - Students Union President (with responsibility for Sustainability), supresident@aber.ac.uk

Ash Sturrock- Campaigns and Democracy Coordinator (Students Union), ai13@aber.ac.uk

We have recently published our Ethical Careers Policy (2024), setting new standards and regulations for the types of industries that we collaborate with. This includes no longer holding relationships or working with:

• Fossil Fuel companies, explicitly involved with coal and tar sands
• Mining Companies – in the 100 coal companies in the Carbon Underground 200 and 
  the 50 mining companies in the Transition Mineral Mining 50.
• Tobacco companies and those that produce tobacco-based products.

The policy also details information on our collaboration with third-party careers services. 

Find our ethical careers policy here: Ethical Employment Policy 

Find our careers service staff here: Careers Service Staff

Aberystwyth University has been accredited as a Real Living Wage employer: Real Living Wage accreditation 

The University is committed to Fairtrade, and continually supports and promotes fairtrade policy: Aberystwyth Fairtrade Policy.

You can read more on our policies for staff on our HR pages, here: Human Resources: Information for Staff

Electronics Watch

Aberystwyth are members of HEPCW, who are an affiliate of SUPC; members of Electronics watch. 

The university purchases through frameworks managed by SUPC including laptops, desktop PCs, servers and computer storage.

We utilise the following agreements:

• New Apple Equipment, Accessories and Associated Services Framework Agreement -SUPC
• LUPC managed frameworks through our membership of HEPCW 
• NDNA Desktops and Notebooks framework launched - NWUPC
• CCS Agreements

Sustainability in E-tendering

A sustainability risk assessment is utilised for every purchase made through our e-tendering website, ensuring sustainable issues are understood and managed. 

Read more about our our E-tendering here.