Your Research and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

Course description

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its 2030 agenda challenge the global community to build a world where no one is left behind. The SDGs address various social, economic, and environmental challenges that require transformative shifts in societies and economies. Several SDG targets directly refer to the need for research-related activities as key components of addressing the SDGs.

Your research might already address some of these SDGs (e.g., reducing inequalities, providing quality education, improving health and well-being), but how do you make sure that your research is properly linked to the Sustainable Development Goals? More importantly, why does this matter? 

Presented by Roslyn Clermont, Senior Business Intelligence and Planning Analyst, and Fiona Butcher, Senior Librarian, Research Engagement this session will explore: 

• What are the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals?
• How can you link your research to the relevant SDG?
• Why is linking your research to SDGs important?
• What support is available to you? 
• How you can add/edit Sustainable Development Goal tags in your ResearchNow profile.

Fiona will demonstrate how ResearchNow will publish SDGs on researchers' public Research@Flinders profiles and tag content with SDG keywords. Research outputs harvested from Scopus will also be tagged with relevant SDGs.

This exciting new functionality highlights how your research contributes to global sustainability efforts, and enables better reporting from ResearchNow on how you and the University are aligning with the United Nations' SDG framework.

Type of course

Information session