UDSB’s vision is to “Develop Responsible Leaders for a Sustainable Future”. Partnering with the GRLI network would significantly support this vision. By engaging with a global community that shares our commitment, our Business School can implement, contribute to, and share best practices in responsible leadership and sustainability. GRLI offers a variety of projects, initiatives, and learning experiences that would benefit our school community.
The University of Dundee has an ambitious strategy which puts social purpose, sustainability and the UN SDGs at the heart of its approach. As a core part of this, UDSB has been an active contributor to the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) both locally and internationally since becoming a signatory in 2020 and a PRME Champion institution since 2023. We are very keen to continue our involvement with the Champions Group over the next two years, to help inform and shape the University’s strategic focus on sustainability as well as the role of the Global PRME Champions Group as academic leaders in sustainability thinking and practice. We are interested in making connections to other leading institutions and using our profile and status to help drive change within our own institution. At Dundee we have been actively involved in developing a manifesto for all PRME Champions and are currently working on several projects with other Champions in an effort to mobilise further sector-wide engagement with the SDGs.
As a result of major investment over the last five years, UDSB has grown significantly in size, with a particular emphasis on recruiting leading academics with an interest in sustainability. We are now in a position where the School could positively contribute in a number of areas, including sustainability accounting and reporting, member-owned organisation or co-operatives (fairer and socially responsible organizational forms), green but competitive agriculture (and the same in other sectors), developing research on the financial viability of alternative forms of energy provision and climate justice (no energy poverty), and contribute to and develop collective courses that speak to these and other issues. In this way, our contribution would also extend to the Globally Responsible Leadership for Sustainable Transformation programme, where we could provide leading scholars and innovative materials to GRL4ST.
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