How to give your Global Academy profile ‘impact’
This brief blog is designed as an update to this one https://theglobalacademy.ac/what-makes-a-good-researcher-page-on-the-global-academy-website/ . Whilst all of the advice remains valid, and you may want to read that guide before this one, we have noticed one particular element of many researcher pages is letting them down – the Research Focus section. There are any number of […]
The Global Academy is growing!
While the world has been sadly trying to manage the global pandemic, interest in The Global Academy has increased substantially. This may not, of course, be a coincidence. Many people (researchers among them) have found themselves questioning the value of the wider contribution they are making as individuals in the context of the pandemic and […]
The Global Academy reached 2 new milestones this week – join us!
We were thrilled then to have reached the milestone of 100 researchers linking their work to the wider purpose provided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by joining us at the Global Academy. It seemed that our platform was gaining momentum and piquing interest in some research areas.
Do students have what it takes to save the World?
At almost exactly this time last year, I wrote a report of our first 2030 SDG Game played with a student group – Masters students on the Energy Systems Programme at Oxford University
How does my work contribute to the SDGs?
A question we get asked a lot by researchers before they join our Global Academy is how their own research can possibly be relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Researchers look at the Global Goals (as they are sometimes called) and see that they relate to poverty, equality and improving the environment (both physical and social) to provide the conditions for all life to flourish.
It gets rave reviews – give it a try!
The 2030 SDGs game is quite new to the UK, and The Global Academy is amongst only a tiny number of accredited game/workshop facilitators. We have now run several, either as open, public games, or as an element of a wider educational programme such as that we ran for set of Masters students at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
Can you ‘save the world’ by 2030?
Here at the Global Academy we are very much looking forward to our next community #2030SDGsGame in Oxford on 4th February.
“It’s not a competition, it’s a race against time”
So said one of the participants after playing the #2030SDGsGame. Those involved were Masters students of Energy Systems in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
The Global Academy in 3 minutes
Here is a short video (3 minutes) which explains what the Global Academy is all about. The problem the initiative is addressing, how it’s going about it and where it’s going next.
Application of “Stubborn Optimism” will deliver the Global Goals
Christiana Figueres visited Oxford recently to deliver a lecture in the beautiful old Sheldonian Theatre. She came at the invitation of the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford who are running a series of events around the topic of ‘Planetary Health’.
