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At the heart of everything we do is research, knowledge exchange and engagement with organisations.

Shaping a responsible future

We drive excellence in research and innovation. We do this to shape a responsible future for business and society.

Our interdisciplinary themes are the Future of Work and Leading on Leadership. They encompass our strategic ambitions. They speak to opportunities in the external environment to deliver our responsibilities.

These responsibilities are set out by:

We support these goals to ensure our impact promotes prosperity while protecting the planet.

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Goal of the Month - July 2023

The 17 Goals are all interconnected. To ensure no one is left behind, we need to accomplish all of them by 2030.

This July we're reflecting on the contributions we've made across all 17 Goals. Each story explains one way we've contributed towards that goal so far.

 

Goal 1: No Poverty

A day in the life at Bounceback, a non-profit providing a community cookery school that is fighting back against food poverty.

Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Graduate Masitano Sichone's foodbank app recognised with entrepreneurship award. The app lets community foodbanks send out notifications when essential items are low in numbers.

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

In this study Dr Josephine Go Jefferies looks to develop a bottom-up segmentation of people affected by neurodiversity using Twitter data.

Goal 4: Quality Education

Meet alumna Lucy Philipson, CEO at COCO, a children's charity providing sustainable sources of quality education to children living in poor and marginalised communities.

Goal 5: Gender Equality

Global voices ask for policy and structural change to allow women entrepreneurs to thrive

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Newcastle teams up with industry partners for water sector innovation

Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Gain and loss of money in a choice experiment. The impact of financial loss aversion and risk preferences on willingness to pay to avoid renewable energy extarnalities. A paper by Prof Susan Chilton.

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Buy now pay later: Klarna is courting young shoppers with Paris Hilton and TikTok-style algorithms – here’s why it’s a problem.

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Will e-cargo bikes be the breakthrough for delivery services?

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

Newcastle University Business School establishes Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group.

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Creating more smart homes to support the drive to net zero

Goal 12: Responsible Consumption

Gabriel Moreno Whitehead (Marketing and Management BSc, 2019) awarded START UP funding to develop his business, Fiquetex, a textiles company using a Latin American plant to create eco-friendly fabrics.

Goal 13: Climate Action

Climate change and global corporations: Five sources of responsibility failure by Dr Cristina Neesham

Goal 15: Life on Land

We’ve developed an integrated risk assessment framework for delta socio-ecological systems.

Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Edward Snowden lawyer, Robert Tibbo, says education is key to responsible leadership.

Goal 17: Partnerships

We lead and contribute to several networks and collaborative spaces to help nurture new and exciting partnerships.