Leading action on the SDGs

Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2020

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings is the only global benchmarking scheme that assesses universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and it does so across three broad areas: research, outreach and stewardship. In its 2020 edition, in which 768 universities from 85 countries submitted, we were proud to be in the top 100 in the world for our action against the UN SDGs. The Rankings provide us with a very useful tool for comparing our SDG action against universities around the world. We have used the rankings to collaborate with staff from across the institution, helping us celebrate all the great work that is going on. For the 2021 rankings, we have submitted evidence against all of the UN SDGs.

14th in the UK

Launched a formal partnership with Our Dorset Integrated Care System, with the aim of using innovation to drive forward improvements in healthcare outcomes for people across Dorset. SportBU, at our Chapel Gate sports site, provide support for grass roots sport and are a key part of the local community Participated in the national RowBritannia 2020 initiative Embedded wellbeing within the design standards of our new buildings

11th in the UK

Our schools and colleges outreach programme promote opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) to all genders and challenge gender stereotypes

SUBU lead an annual Women’s Liberation Campaign

See our annual Gender Pay Gap and Equality and Diversity Reports (www.bournemouth.ac.uk/ about/professional-services/equality-diversity/equality-diversity-committee)

8th in the UK

Read about our action for SDG7 from page 12.

16th in the UK

BU academics helped unravel the centuries old mystery of where the sarsen stones used to build Stonehenge came SUBU’s Community Wardens scheme seeks to improve the sustainability of the local area by supporting the integration of students in their local area and tackling anti-social behaviour Read about our action for sustainable buildings on pages 16 and 17 and sustainable travel on pages 24-27.

10th in the world

Read about our action for SDG12 on pages 20 and 21.

4th in the UK

Hosted a 'green hub' at the Art By The Sea Festival 2019 Delivered a Fusion Professorial Lecture on Addressing the environmental crisis, held at the RNLI College in Poole Held a session at our Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Community of Practice on embedding climate change in the curriculum Read about our campus action for SDG13 from page 12 and ESD on page 8.

20th in the UK

Sustainability and the UN SDGs underpin our university strategy, BU2025 Our Sustainability Committee contains membership from across the institution and is chaired by our Director of Estates We submit an annual sustainability report to the University Board to ensure transparency and accountability, as well as a range of benchmarking and certifications We have a Modern Slavery Policy.

9th in the UK

We commit to sharing best practice on the SDGs through the SDG Accord BCP Council are adopting the UN SDGs within their regional sustainability action plans as a result of BU collaboration

SDG Accord

BU retains its commitment to the SDG Accord, which has two purposes: 1.To inspire, celebrate and advance the critical role that education has in delivering the SDGs and the value it brings to governments, business and wider society 2.To be a commitment from universities to do more to deliver the SDGs, to annually report on each signatory's

progress, and to do so in ways which share the learning with each other both nationally and internationally In 2020, we again reported our activities for the SDG Accord and were featured as a case study in the summary EAUC report. (www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk/sdg_ accord_report_2020_progress_towards_the_glo)