Academics and students co-publish paper on UCD SDG Dashboard

_{𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒔𝒓𝒊 𝑰𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔: Project lead Ainhoa Gonzalez Del Campo, Vice President for Sustainability Tasman Crowe, and students Matthew Kirwan, Ciara Murray and Luka Stojanovic. All three students are BSc Sustainability graduates who greatly contributed to the development of the dashboard.}

A paper about the University College Dublin SDG dashboard has been published in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.

𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐜𝐨-𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is co-authored by academics and undergraduate students. The paper discusses how together they made UCD’s interactive and user-friendly dashboard, the first of its kind in Ireland.

The dashboard allows students and staff to learn about sustainability infrastructure, activities and initiatives on campus. It is also being used as a classroom tool to support teaching, raise awareness about sustainability at UCD and inspire action.

Read the paper (opens in a new window)here.

Explore the dashboard here. 

The paper’s co-authors are: Ainhoa Gonzalez del Campo, Léna Turner, Aobha Russell, Ciara Murray, Matthew Kirwan, Luka Stojanovic, Aminath Maasa Ali, Arlene Crampsie and Jeremy Auerbach. Academics are from UCD School of Geography and students are from the BSc Sustainability/Social Sciences/Geography and MSc Geospatial Data Analysis programmes.