Social & Environmental Sustainability StrategyResearch & Innovation for a Better World
Our ambition
The University of Strathclyde has a leading reputation as a place of useful learning, where our academic partnerships with external stakeholders create real-world impact.
We will continue to build on this, making tangible change by leading and participating in research and innovation that tackles complex sustainability challenges.
Mainstreaming sustainability in our research & innovation
We are committed to integrating sustainability into every stage of the research and innovation journey, both in what we do and how we do it.
We will we achieve this by:
- offering continuous and consistent access to learning opportunities for students and staff engaged in research and innovation
- making sustainability an integral part of how we think about and assess our research
- providing our students, staff and partners with the skills and knowledge to evaluate the broad spectrum of impacts their research and innovation might create
Research & innovation for a better world
We will strive to ensure that our research and innovation efforts help to advance local, national and global sustainability goals whenever reasonable.
We will achieve this by:
- using internationally recognised and endorsed frameworks (for example, the UN SDGs) as a lens to consider the design, delivery and impact of our research
- collaborating across disciplines and sectors through inter and transdisciplinary approaches, to encourage new ways of thinking and unique perspectives
- working in ethical and equitable partnerships, ensuring that diversity and inclusion are cornerstones of our research culture
- co-creating, evaluating and sharing our research and outputs openly
- communicating our research with, and for, a broad range of audiences in ways that are meaningful and easily understood
- maximising the positive impacts our research may have on sustainable development whilst reducing and mitigating any negative impacts (directly and indirectly)