News – The Global Academy

| Steve Fairman

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.

About the Global Academy

| Wendy Stone

Research groups on the Global Academy website

Amidst the gloom of 2020 we achieved a breakthrough. Over 100 researchers in 40 countries built their own researcher pages at www.theglobalacademy.ac. Now that we have a wide cross-section of researchers sharing their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are ready to begin linking researchers to their research groups, labs and teams. Few researchers work alone and this is your chance to show us how the team you work with contribute to the SDGs.

The Global Academy team

| Wendy Stone

Heading into a New Year with 100 Global Academy Researchers

2020 has been a long, difficult year for everyone so realising that we now have 100 researchers, based in 40 different countries working to help us achive the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a HUGE boost as we plan for the year ahead.

2030 SDGs Game workshops

| Steve Fairman

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

The UN Sustainable Development Goals

| Wendy Stone

The UN 2030 SDGs; humanity’s biggest ever project and a framework for research

Back in 2015 the 193 member states of the United Nations agreed on 17 Global Goals to be achieved by 2030. They are also called the Sustainable Development Goals, or ‘SDGs’. At the time UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon introduced the goals with a powerful call to action.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals

| Wendy Stone

The targets behind the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

If you have read the first article in this series you know that there are 17 SDG’s or Global Goals. They are high level, overarching goals for humanity to achieve by 2030 if we are to ensure our survival.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals

| Wendy Stone

The UN Sustainable Development Goals Part 3: Indicators, measurement and reporting

Once the 17 goals and 169 specific targets were agreed in 2015 work began to identify the indicators needed for us to measure progress, both nationally and worldwide. The list was finally agreed in 2017.

Research and the SDGs

| Steve Fairman

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.

Research and the SDGs

| Wendy Stone

SDGs or COVID 19; which comes first?

Even while governments worldwide are, rightly, focused on minimising the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic, their response, and their research investments, should be guided by the United Nations framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The uncomfortable truth is that the current pandemic could have been contained by existing health systems if we were closer to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.