Service Learning and United Nations Global Goals

WorkshopService Learning and Dr Rob Hales

1. Rob’s Background

2. Grand Challenges

3. Australia Track Record

4. Griffith SDG Engagement

5. Times Higher Education Ranking

6. SDG Audit of Undergraduate Core Courses

7. Resources for Business School Majors

8. SDG program review of Griffith University

9. SDGs in organisations

10. To Do List

11. Workshop Ideas into action

SDGs and Planetary

BoundariesWhat system of governance can achieve a sustainable world?

Most of what we call sustainability is actually unsustainability!

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/download/18.51d83659166367a9a16353/1539675518425/Report_Achieving%20the%20Sustainable%20Development%20Goals_WEB.pdf

Strengths and Weaknesses of Australia

https://www.sdgindex.org/

Good classroom question:

Why is Australia not doing as well as we think it should?

Ranking of Political Party

Policies from the

2019 Federal Election

Why do conservatives lack policies and details on achieving many

of the SDGs?

(Rob Hales 2019)

Griffith Showcase Website

https://www.griffith.edu.au/sustainable-developmentLinks to teaching, Research and Engagement Activities

Times Higher Education RankingGlobal Goals/SDGs

Published in the summit in Korea in April 2019.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/impact/2019/overall#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/undefined

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL COVERAGE

WITHIN GRIFFITH PROGRAMS

Goal Coverage G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G6 G7 G8 G9 G10 G11 G12 G13 G14 G15 G16 G17

Environmental planning & architecture (Sciences) 17 SDGs 20 11 20 2 6 30 42 25 36 2 99 38 251 54 50 15 10

Science & aviation (Sciences) 16 SDGs 2 16 33 3 1 11 3 16 14 0 40 12 133 42 40 65 4

Engineer & IT (Sciences) 16 SDGs 6 2 6 1 1 23 29 26 56 0 26 31 77 11 15 58 9

Business & Government (GBS) 16 SDGs 414 22 77 0 60 13 25 358 34 13 25 136 39 14 10 164 108

Humanities, social sciences & languages (AEL) 14 SDGs 228 7 16 4 31 0 7 55 8 12 5 25 21 0 0 221 40

Criminology & law (AEL) 13 SDGs 119 42 56 2 74 0 4 52 11 21 21 77 0 0 0 419 41

Medicines, dentistry &health (Health) 13 SDGs 9 160 721 24 30 0 0 4 15 12 4 3 6 0 0 146 2

Visual & creative arts (AEL) 11 SDGs 23 0 1 3 12 0 0 34 16 2 1 18 0 0 0 29 6

Education (AEL) 9 SDGs 2 0 29 12 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

Music & performing arts (AEL) 4 SDGs 0 0 3 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL

COVERAGE ACROSS ALL PROGRAMS4. Quality education 55

10. Reduced inequalities 63

6. Clean water & sanitation 78

7. Affordable & clean energy 111

15. Life on land 115

14. Life below water 122

9. Industry, innovation & infrastructure 190

5.Gender equality 217

17. Partnerships for the goals 220

11. Sustainable cities & communities 222

2. Zero hunger 260

12. Responsible consumption & production340

13. Climate action 527

8. Decent work & economic growth 571

1. No poverty 823

3. Good health & well-being 962

16. Peace, justice and strong institutions 1117

SDG Audit of GBS

Core Course Profiles

➢6 programs from the Griffith Business School➢34 majors➢159 core courses➢Electives were not included

NVIVO – Automatic text query

Manual check to decide relevance

Methods

Results by goals

15. Life on land 0

6. Clean water and sanitation 2

2. Zero hunger 3

14. Life below water 3

3. Good health and well-being 22

12. Responsible consumption and production 30

10. Reduced inequalities 34

17. Partnership for the goals 35

5. Gender equality 58

11.Sustainable cities and communities 72

13. Climate action 82

4. Quality education 90

1. No poverty 105

7. Affordable and clean energy 119

9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure 141

8. Decent work and economic growth 197

16. Peace, justice and strong institutions 374

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Employment Relation

First Year Foundational Courses

Sport Management

Sustainable Entreprise

Financial Planning

Management

Accounting

Entrepreneurship

Event Management

Human Resource Management

International Business

Real Estate Development

Economic Major

Finance

Marketing

Politics And Public Policy

Asian Business

Logistic And Supply Chain

SDGs coverage in Bachelor of Business

How Experts Define Corporate Leadership

• https://globescan.com/unilever-patagonia-ikea-sustainability-leadership-2019/

A gap between companies’ good intentions and their ability to embed the SDGs

Viewing the results as a whole, it appears that while the majority of companies are keen to talk about the SDGs they have yet to get specific about how they’re embedding them into strategies and actions. Why is this happening? We believe that, while there is a clear appetite for embracing the SDGs, many organisations still lack the strategy, tools and culture needed to transform those commitments into tangible business actions. That has a knock-on effect in terms of measuring and reporting on their progress in meeting the Goals. As a result they are unable to demonstrate to investors, peers and their own employees how and why the SDGs are helping improve their overall business, both now and sustaining it for the long term.

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/sustainability/SDG/sdg-reporting-2018.pdf

PWC Report 2018

SDG CompassImplementation in Business

The objective of the SDG Compass is to guide companies on how they can align their strategies as well as measure and manage their contribution to the SDGs.

What are the Goals and Priorities

The SDG Compass website ww.sdgcompass.org contains an inventory of business indicators mapped against the 17 SDGs and their targets. The inventory contains

existing business indicators from relevant and widely-recognized sources such as GRI, SASB, ILO, OECD and CDP, among others. Your company can select the most relevant

indicator(s) for each potential high impact area or use them as an inspiration to define its own indicators.

Identify the performance gap between goals using both approaches

How will the SDG be used strategically

in the organisation?

Reporting and CommunicatingSDG target 12.6 calls on governments everywhere to ‘encourage companies, especially

large and trans-national companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle’.

What’s Next

• Post Graduate SDG audit (ON GOING)

• SDG resources for GBS majors in the sustainability hub (ON GOING)

• Discuss with discipline leaders how to incorporate and or further develop SDGs in majors

(TO DO)

• Change PLO to SDGs

• Identify gaps in GBS teaching for SDGs using THE and STAR rankings (ONGOING)

• Use Times Higher Education Submission for Engagement with Griffith Departments

• Engagement Framework for Griffith and GBS…………..

• Announce SDG Localising Conference Brisbane.

Griffith Needs a Platform for SDG Engagement that links to

Strategic Activities

We can showcase and be transparent like :- https://sdgs.org.au/

https://www.thecommonwealth-educationhub.net/commonwealth-curriculum-framework-enabling-sdgs/

Workshop1. Choose which SDGs are most relevant to your course?

2. Use the SDG curriculum guide to asssit to write down one thing you would like students to do in your course relating to:

• Knowledge and Understanding

• Skills and Appreciation

• Values and Attitudes

For the degree to be able to state it teaches for SDGs there needs to be an SDG for each course and that if there is the same SDG across different courses that there is no overlap in content. Convenor will need to talk to each other about how they will differentiate contact. Also priority areas as defined by Australian Priorities and the areas of ‘lack’ in the GBS overall SDG mapping. Next steps after assigning courses is for convenors to think abouthow SDGs are part of learning objectives, teaching and assessment.

How can the SDGs be a sociahttps://www.unglobalcompact.org/library/5461l,

environmental and financial benefit to companies?

Companies are encouraged to adopt holistic and systemic solutions to

achieve the scale of impact required for realizing the SDGs.

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