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Contributing to a Just Transition to Net Zero

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https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Opportunities/CallforProposals/tabid/6300/Default.aspx

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Just Transition Call - COP26 March - 6Nov2021

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SDG Programme co-sponsor: Zero Waste Scotland

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SDG Programme co-sponsor: Zero Waste Scotland

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Inspiring change to fight the climate crisis

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Zero Waste Scotland have the facts to help everyone end the climate crisis by wasting less and making things last instead. Start your journey to zero today!

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October 2021

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Photo: Whitaker Museum by Charlie Woods

It's not every day you walk into a museum or gallery and see the Sustainable Development Goals graphic on the wall. This is what met me when I visited the Whitaker Museum and Gallery in Lancashire recently. They have 'undertaken a re-development of interpretation with a focus on the SDGs, connecting people, heritage and ideas with the past, the present and the future.' The aim is to explore the relationship between people, planet and prosperity in the context of a particular place - in this case Rossendale, the location of a number of former mill towns alongside the River Irwell.

The strap-line on their website is: Explore the past, meet the present, create the future. They see the museum and gallery as being as much about the future as it is about the past. By building on an exploration of the past and the present, the aim is to make it a place for people to take part in the development of the community - where they can share their hopes and visions of a better future, and to work together to create the community they want to live in.

The framework offered by the SDGs offers a way for communities to consider the seemingly disparate goals in a more coherent way. They help us try to make sense of the interrelationships between the goals and possible trade-offs and potential synergies between them. They also help us to consider the relationship between short-term emergencies and longer-term objectives to achieve a balance between the urgent and the important.

Community engagement to help understand and achieve the SDGs is at the heart of many of the projects that make up SUII's recent SDG Programme. The programme comprises eleven projects, covering a wide range of areas including: climate change, place-making, land and sea management, social justice, health, education and food.

Community action and learning to develop sustainable places is one of the breakout themes that we will be exploring further at our conference to conclude the programme on 25 November. Other breakout sessions will cover:

Improving outcomes through collaboration - bottom-up engagement and top-down governance

Health and wellbeing in an ageing society

Justice in its widest sense

Educating now and for the future

The conference will provide the opportunity for policy makers, practitioners and the wider public to:

learn about the policy and practice insights from the projects;

consider the interrelationship between projects and some of the cross-cutting themes and insights to emerge from the programme;

explore the ways in which the insights generated by the knowledge exchanged in the programme can influence action to tackle the Covid recovery and achieve fairer, more sustainable outcomes;

share ideas with academic researchers to take the insights from the programme forward.

More details of the conference can be found here.
Charlie Woods, October 2021

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Photo: Whitaker Museum by Charlie Woods It's not every day you walk into a museum or gallery and see the Sustainable Development Goals graphic on the wall. This is what met me when I visited the Whitaker Museum and Gallery in Lancashire recently. They have 'undertaken a re-development of interpretation with a focus on the SDGs, connecting...

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Information about the SUII SDG programmes

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Information about the SUII SDG programmes

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Scottish Universities Insight Institute > Programmes

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Latest blog from SUII

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Conference live illustration by Katie Chappell SUII’s purpose is to support researchers from our member universities to join with policy makers and practitioners to exchange knowledge and generate …

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

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Round #1: Accelerating progress

More info: https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/FoodActivism.aspx

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Speakers:

Louise McGregor, Zero Waste Scotland

Rehema White, SDG Network Scotland

Angelika Majdanik, NPF Unit, Scottish Government

Dorothea Christiana, UN Association Scotland

Mike Danson, Just Transition Commission

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1 - Introductions - SUII SDG conference - live illustration Katie Chappell

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Sessions

Community action and learning to develop sustainable places

Improving outcomes through collaboration – bottom-up engagement and top-down governance

Health and wellbeing in an ageing society

Justice in its widest sense

Educating now and for the future

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2 - Breakout_Sessions - SUII SDG conference - live illustration Katie Chappell

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3 - Wrap_Up - SUII SDG conference - live illustration Katie Chappell

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Katie Chappell Illustrator - Live Illustration

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LIVE EVENT ILLUSTRATOR Katie Chappell - creative, engaging, sustainable and memorable events using live illustration, graphic recording and visual learning.

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The Centrality of Place, Work and Folk in the UN SDGs: Learning with Falkland Estate towards Scotland’s Land Use Strategy

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The Centrality of Place, Work and Folk in the UN SDGs: Learning with Falkland Estate towards Scotland’s Land Use Strategy

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Round #2: Linking the Global Goals

More info:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/FolkPlaceWork.aspx

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Place, Work and Folk SDG Conference Poster

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The Role of the Ocean: Driving the Transition to a Resilient and Inclusive Future

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The Role of the Ocean: Driving the Transition to a Resilient and Inclusive Future

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All outputs including full reports at: The Role of the Ocean: Driving the transition to a resilient and inclusive future (scottishinsight.ac.uk)

Policy briefing: Policy Brief, August 2021 - Talking Heads - Science-Policy Collaboration for Shared Sustainability Ambitions.pdf (scottishinsight.ac.uk)

Video animation explaining policy coherence: Policy Coherence - YouTube

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Role of the Ocean - poster for Nov SUII event

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Peace of Mind: Exploring Universal Basic Income's Potential to Improve Mental Health

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Peace of Mind: Exploring Universal Basic Income's Potential to Improve Mental Health

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Round #2: Linking the Global Goals

More info:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/UniversalBasicIncomeandMentalHealth.aspx

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UBI and Mental Health SDG Conference Poster

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Education for Climate Justice: Centring Social Justice amidst Demands to Prioritise the Climate Crisis in Education

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Education for Climate Justice: Centring Social Justice amidst Demands to Prioritise the Climate Crisis in Education

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Round #2: Linking the Global Goals

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Prof. Ali Watson, University of St Andrews and Third Generation Project

Dr Neil Crawford, University of Leeds

Dr Marlies Kustatscher, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES)

Dr Beth Christie, University of Edinburgh

Bennett Collins, University of St Andrews and Third Generation Project

Dr Radhika Govinda, University of Edinburgh

Jolly Oluka, SCOREscotland

Dr Sennan Mattar, Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University

Madhavi Apparala, SCOREscotland

Jennifer Ba, SCOREscotland

Teach the Future Scotland

Mary Collacott, Learning for Sustainability Scotland

Zarina Ahmad, PhD Researcher, Department of Politics, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

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Education for climate justice: Centring social justice amidst demands to prioritise the climate crisis in education

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The programme will bring together diverse stakeholders to examine what it means to truly place social justice at the heart of efforts to address the climate crisis in education. This will entail a sustained focus on decolonising education and climate justice to imagine a transition to more ’climate…

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Agents of Change: A Toolkit for Schools and Teachers

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Agents of Change: A Toolkit for Schools and Teachers

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Round #1: Accelerating progress

More info:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/AgentsofChange.aspx

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Agents of Change Toolkit SDG Conference Poster

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Leading from the Front? Increasing Community Participation in a Just Transition to Net Zero in the North East of Scotland

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Leading from the Front? Increasing Community Participation in a Just Transition to Net Zero in the North East of Scotland

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Round #3: Changing behaviours and attitudes

More info:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/JustTransition.aspx

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Inspiring a Food Revolution for People and Planet

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Inspiring a Food Revolution for People and Planet

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Round #3: Changing behaviours and attitudes

More info:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/FoodRevolution.aspx

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Nutrition Revolution SDG Conference Poster

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Round #3: Changing behaviours and attitudes

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This programme will focus on the role of local community activism in addressing climate change and related challenges faced by urban centres. Following Purcell and Tyman's (2014) assertion that growing food can be a 'radical intervention' in city life, it will focus on the creation and development of community gardens and the potential for these initiatives to create synergies for wider environmental change beyond local communities. We propose that the principles underpinning community gardens (e.g. collaboration, cohesion, shared activity/goals) can be strong drivers to influence behavioural and attitudinal change in the urban environment, both at individual and collective levels. The programme will explore how community gardens can create positive impacts for diverse voices to come together in collective action to enhance rights, choices and decisions across the urban environments and reclaim residents' right to the city (Harvey, 2003).

Through a series of participatory and creative workshops, the programme will involve the collaboration of policy-makers, community activists and academic partners from Scotland, Brazil, Portugal, Nepal as well as USA and Kenya. The workshops' key aim is to build capacity to influence individual and collective changes that can mobilise local communities to be more active to address environmental challenges - such as reuse of organic waste, production of food and strengthened links with wider urban issues that impact on most vulnerable groups. Access to diverse international experiences will help local initiatives to consider novel approaches and better connect local issues with international challenges. The focus will be on how community gardens can be catalysts for wider community mobilisation on environmental issues.

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This programme will focus on the role of local community activism in addressing climate change and related challenges faced by urban centres. Through a series of participatory and creative workshops, it will explore how community gardens can create positive impacts for diverse voices to come together in collective action to enhance rights, choices and decisions across the urban environments and reclaim residents' right to the city.

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Round #1: Accelerating progress

More info:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/IntergenerationalPlacemaking.aspx

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Co-Designing Socially Just Justice with 18-25 year-olds

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Co-Designing Socially Just Justice with 18-25 year-olds

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Round #1: Accelerating progress

More info:
https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/SociallyJustInstitutions.aspx

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Socially Just Justice SDG Conference Poster

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Over our last three calls for proposals, the Scottish Universities Insight Institute (alongside our co-investment partner Zero Waste Scotland) has been supporting projects aimed at accelerating progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The last two calls have had a focus on integrating the goals and stimulating behavioural change.

This event will weave together the threads from these projects and the programme as a whole and consider how the knowledge generated and shared by the programme can be translated into practice.

The conference will take as its starting point the SDG goals (and their relationship to the National Performance Framework in Scotland) and will take place against the background of two major challenges:

The SUII SDG programme comprises eleven projects, covering a wide range of areas including: climate change, place-making, land and sea management, community development, social justice, health, education and food.

Each project brings a different perspective to achieving a fairer, greener Scotland, yet there is also a strong interconnection between many of the projects, generating cross cutting insights. More details about each project can be found here

The event will offer the opportunity to:

learn about the policy and practice insights from the projects ;

consider the interrelationship between projects and some of the cross-cutting themes and insights to emerge from the programme;

explore the ways in which the insights generated by the knowledge exchanged in the programme can influence action to tackle the Covid recovery and achieve fairer, more sustainable outcomes.

The conference will combine plenary sessions and breakout discussions, with breakout rooms organised around the following topics:

Community action and learning to develop sustainable places

Improving outcomes through collaboration - bottom-up engagement and top-down governance

Health and wellbeing in an ageing society

Justice in its widest sense

Educating now and for the future

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SDG Conference: Accelerating Progress towards the UN's Global Goals - Knowledge into Practice

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Over our last three calls for proposals, the Scottish Universities Insight Institute (alongside our co-investment partner Zero Waste Scotland) has been supporting projects aimed at accelerating progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The last two calls have had a focus on integrating the goals and stimulating behavioural change.