A project at SIS is a scoped engagement with an external partner: one defined question, one student team, one deliverable someone outside the university uses. Real projects. Real impact. Built by students who mean it.
We agree one question and one named deliverable with the partner.
An interdisciplinary student team is built around that question.
Weekly check-ins and milestone reviews, with a lead throughout.
The partner gets a report or artefact they can act on.
SIS runs projects in batches, so every team scopes, builds and ships together. These are the three engagements in Batch 1.
Partner Bristol Bath Rum Distillery
The challenge. The Bristol Bath Rum Distillery wanted to meet B Corp standards but had no clear view of where it stood or what certification would require.
What we did. Assessed the distillery against the B Corp Impact Assessment across governance, workers, community, environment and customers, then mapped the gaps.
Partner Independent SIS research
The challenge. Is a Bristol–Bath metro feasible, and why did every previous scheme for the corridor fail to get built?
What we did. Ran a feasibility analysis of the corridor alongside a review of the proposals that came before it.
A look into the spending on the flood defences.
Partner briefs are scoped ahead of term; teams form when the batch opens.
Each project is written up as an essay on our Substack, with the full project reports to follow.
What B Corp certification actually asks of a company — the fundamentals, the obstacles, and a preview of where the Society is heading.
The Bristol/Bath metro team on why transport between the two cities keeps stalling — and what a workable link would have to get right.
Bring us a sustainability question worth scoping and we will build a team around it.
Work with us →Applications open at the start of each batch. No consulting experience needed.
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