Abstract
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework to achieve sustainable development and fulfilling these Goals will take an unprecedented effort by all sectors in society. Many universities and businesses are using the Goals within their strategies and sustainability reporting. However, this is difficult as there is currently no standard methodology to map the 17 goals, 169 targets and 232 indicators. Work at the University of Leicester has focused on developing a robust methodology to map a higher education institution’s (HEI’s) research contribution to the Goals. We have integrated this unique methodology into an automated software tool to measure a university’s academic contribution to the Goals using mathematical text mining techniques. Our ability to quickly and effectively map institutions’ research contributions has boosted our ambitions and efforts to develop software to map the full operations of an HEI or business.
Highlights
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030 (United Nations, 2015)
This paper aims to describe the development of our SDG mapping tool with a view to contributing to an agreed sector SDG reporting methodology
The query codes were refined to reduce the number of outliers that were present by using a criteria similar to the initial keywords where the publication abstracts were checked against the relevant SDG targets
Summary
Any reports and responses or comments on the article can be found at the end of the article. Keywords Sustainable Development Goals, Impact, Mapping, SDGs, Methodology, Automated. This article is included in the Responsible Management gateway. This article is included in the Sustainable Cities gateway. This article is included in the Quality Education for All gateway. This article is included in the EAUC collection
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