Are you a researcher interested in making the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more central to your work? Do you know a graduate student or early career researcher who would benefit from a workshop on SDG engagement and research? The Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Network is delighted to announce a new online workshop for graduate students and early career researchers (broadly defined) aimed at making sense of the emerging place of the SDGs in universities. Workshop Date
THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2020
10 am - 1 pm (Melbourne time)
The workshop will address the ‘troubles and opportunities’ with SDG engagement and research. It will address the following issues:
Context: Institutional and Country:
The troubles and opportunities for universities engaging with the SDGs
Methods: Measurement and the SDGs:
The troubles and opportunities with a methodological focus on measurement
Content: The Politics of SDG Research:
The troubles and opportunities of engaging with the politics of the SDGs in our research.
Are you interested? Apply now: No charge but interested research students / early career researchers should send a 100-word summary of your research and a 100-word bio to [email protected] by Friday 16 October 2020. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by Monday 19 October. More Information:
In September 2015, the United Nations unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda, seventeen SDGs to shape international efforts to promote a sustainable, peaceful and equitable world by 2030. The SDGs offer a new way of positioning universities, and all of us who work in them, within the world.
Universities themselves are increasingly focusing their attention on the SDGs. In 2018, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings introduced a new measurement based on the Goals, which aims to rank global universities’ success in delivering on SDG targets. Institutions across the world—including RMIT—are looking to the SDGs as a framework for teaching, research, engagement and impact.
Workshop flier (see below)
With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Presented by the EU Centre and Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University and co-funded by the Jean Monnet Activities Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Project number: 587660-Epp-1-2017-1-AU-EPPJMO-NETWORK. |
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