... 2019 27 05 2019 30 05 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sustainability Higher education Attitudes Climate change Business students Behaviour change Recent research suggests that university students...

... This paper aims to present findings from an EU-funded international student-led energy saving competition (SAVES) on a scale previously unseen. There are multiple accounts of short-term projects and energy saving competitions encouraging pro-environmental behaviour change amongst students in university...

... of action towards behaviour change. However, as Joas (1990) and Gross (2009) suggest, behaviour change is not a simple challenge, with research indicating that we are limited because of force of habit in our ability to simply change our behaviour. In particular, the strength of individuals’ habits...

...., 2002) rather than forcing an artificial pseudo-opinion (Malone et al., 2010). These statements were followed by a number of open-ended questions relating to benefits, incentives and actions regarding behaviour change and a further set of prompts inviting questions from respondents regarding...