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A framework to enable sustainability-oriented transition activities in HEIs: Learnings from two case studies in Germany and Switzerland
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can significantly contribute to sustainability transitions, as they facilitate research, education and knowledge transfer. The integration of sustainability in research touches many scientific disciplines and beyond ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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UBC Sustainability Scholars Program
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Since 2010, the creativity, skills and passion of close to 600 UBC graduate students in the Sustainability Scholars Program have made a positive impact on sustainability issues in the Vancouver ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Science with society: Challenges of early-stage researchers engaging with transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
- Utrecht University
- University of Hull
The ongoing social and ecological crises create urgency in academia and elsewhere to devise actionable problem-solving knowledge to tackle sustainability challenges. Transdisciplinary research (TDR) represents a problem-solving methodology for sustainability ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Trends in scientific publishing on sustainability in higher education
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- University of Passo Fundo
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
- Universidade Positivo
- University of Chester
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
It is widely acknowledged that research and publications in peer reviewed journals offer important metrics in describing the academic outputs of higher education institutions on one hand, and their societal ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Evaluating and improving the contributions of university research to social innovation
- Royal Roads University (BC)
The purpose of this study is to assess the contributions of graduate research to social innovation and change for learning and improved transdisciplinary practice. Universities, as centers of teaching and ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Impact culture: transforming how Universities tackle 21st century challenges
- University of York
- Newcastle University
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) (Scotland)
New ways of doing research are needed to tackle the deep interconnected nature of 21st Century challenges, like climate change, obesity and entrenched social and economic inequalities. While the impact ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Delivering on the promise: how are sustainability research institutes enabling interdisciplinary research?
- University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork (Co. Cork)
Despite the potential for research institutes to advance interdisciplinary research on university campuses, There have been few studies on how interdisciplinary research centres integrate multiple disciplines in practice, how they ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Toward a sustainability assessment framework of research impacts: Contributions of a business school
- Vienna University of Economics and Business
Business schools have the potential to become an important driver for sustainable development (SD) by broadening their research assessments beyond scientific performance. Assessment frameworks that expand the scope from academic ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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5 Year Report NC Collaboratory 2016-2021
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
In 2016 the NC General Assembly authorized the creation of the NC Policy Collaboratory headquartered at UNC Chapel Hill. In the five years since, the Collaboratory has funded more than ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2022
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Societal effects of transdisciplinary sustainability research—How can they be strengthened during the research process?
- Freie Universität Berlin
- ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research (Darmstadt)
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F) (Darmstadt)
- Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin)
Transdisciplinary sustainability research aims to mitigate or to solve complex societal problems and advance the production of scientific knowledge. Reflexive approaches to transdisciplinary research processes are outlined to systematically strengthen ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Assessing research trends related to Sustainable Development Goals: local and global issues
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Passo Fundo
- Manchester Metropolitan University
The Sustainable Development Goals agreed by the United Nations in September 2015 comprise 17 goals and 169 targets aimed at integrating matters related to sustainable development into the overall economic ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2018
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Carbon brainprint – An estimate of the intellectual contribution of research institutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Cranfield School of Management
Research and innovation have considerable, currently unquantified potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by, for example, increasing energy efficiency. Furthermore, the process of knowledge transfer in itself can have a ...
- Posted June 29, 2018
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Mobilization Strategies for Environmental Policy Influence
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
- AASHE (MA)
Those of us who research and teach about sustainability issues are often interested in the potential social impact of our own work, in order to help address environmental challenges of ...
- Posted May 15, 2018
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Developing and Testing a Method to Measure Academic Societal Impact
- University of Kent
- University of The South Pacific (Central Division)
- University of Coimbra
This paper aims to extend understanding of the business and societal impact of academic research. From a business school perspective, it has taken stock of the role of academic research ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Institutionalizing Research in Sustainability in the Context of Competing University Priorities
- Green Mountain College (VT)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar will continue the conversation started in the first "Research in Sustainability" webinar. Presenters will focus on different models and strategies that support integrating research with operations in the ...
- Posted March 22, 2018
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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems: National Science Foundation (NSF) Initiative to Examine Critical Issues in Today's World
- National Science Foundation
At the end of 2015, the NSF put out its first request for proposals for the INFEWS program. Over the next five years the program plans to fund interdisciplinary projects ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Research and Opportunities at USDA at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (DC)
There is a critical need for research and researchers that enables new means of adapting to these challenges, and USDA, through the intramural research it conducts and the extramural research ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Sustainability Science in a Global Landscape
This report describes a bibliometric analysis of the sustainability science research landscape between 2009 and 2013. Key findings include:
- Research on sustainability has grown almost twice as fast as research ...
- Posted Nov. 7, 2016
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