Our work with schools and colleges

Axe Valley biodiesel

In 2008 Biosciences and Axe Valley Community College won a Royal Society Partnership Grant to set up a student-run business producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil, along with partners from a number of other local businesses. This hugely successful collaboration featured at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition and similar projects have now been started at other local schools.

Further information about the project can be found through the Royal Society or from Dr Nicky King.

An article on the project by Dr Nicky King was recently published in the RSC journal ‘Education in Chemistry’.