Sustainability Scholars

Sustainability Scholars are advanced trainees in psychiatry who use their special interest day each week to work with the RCPsych Sustainability and Planetary Health Committee for a period of one year.

This is a programme aimed at developing high achieving trainees knowledge and skills in leadership and sustainable quality improvement. Scholars get a dedicated study budget for their project and training and mentoring throughout the year.

Meet our Sustainability Scholars

Dr Alexander Burns

Alex is an SAS doctor who works as a liaison psychiatrist and currently works in Barnsley. He has previously led on QI projects that have aimed to embed more sustainable practice into local clinical pathways.

As a sustainability scholar, Alex is working on a project aiming to set up a Green Walking Group for inpatients at a local psychiatric unit. He also hopes to establish a relationship between the Planetary Health and Sustainability Committee and the Liaison Psychiatry Faculty in the College.