How can universities help achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals? From research to mitigate the climate crisis and embedding the Global Goals into your teaching to creating sustainable campuses, academics and staff share strategies
Students will be the driving force behind universities finally being held accountable and made to practise what they preach on climate change, says Andreas Kaplan
Jen O’Brien describes a pedagogical project that engages students in applied research carried out in partnership with external organisations, related to the Sustainable Development Goals
The extensive terminology surrounding research ‘impact’ can be confusing for those new to it. To help, Alex Smith and Laura Tucker have compiled a glossary of the most common terms
Anke Schwittay shows how design methods such as scenario building can help students think creatively about diverse challenges and imagine responses to them
Rachel Bickerdike explains how using design thinking to find solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals can open up a new world of social entrepreneurship for students
The neglect of social sciences, humanities and arts is at the heart of why the shift to sustainability has been slow − and why it may eventually fail, say Eric Neumayer and Charles Joly
Universities should lead by example on sustainability issues, looking at what they can do to shrink their environmental impact. Here, Ling Xia and Yao Wu outline a project that could herald a major reduction in their institution’s paper consumption
Gisela Loehlein on how digital communications can assist in spreading knowledge and awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, through virtual global events and building connections between experts and institutions all over the world
