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The SDG Impact Lab provides a rare opportunity for postgraduate students to learn and collaborate across disciplines, harnessing diversity as a strength to deliver solutions to complex environmental and social challenges.
Applications for the 2024 round of SDG Lab Fellowships are now closed. We are appreciative of the enthusiastic response and interest from all the applicants.
The evaluation process is currently in progress, and we expect to inform successful Lab Fellowship recipients by December 13th, 2023.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at info@sdglab.uk.
Applications for Lab Fellowships for 2025 will open in Michaelmas Term. If you are interested in hearing about general events and activities the Lab is involved with, please sign up to our newsletter here.
The SDG Impact Lab Masterclass Series in a eight-week course focused on how to make progress towards the SDGs. It is underpinned by three core curriculum areas:
Ethics- How do we know what is right?
We offer training in responsible leadership, underpinned by values, purpose and character.
Evidence- How do we know what works?
We provide students with applied research skills relevant to business, policy, and community engagement.
Engagement- How do we deliver impactful change?
We deliver training in project management, organisational change, and effective communication and presentation skills.
Each session will focus on one or more of the SDGs with expert input from Oxford faculty, business, and community leaders. There will be a group and peer learning component as well as case studies of projects delivered by previous Lab Fellows.
Our unique and interactive programmes aim to provide students with the transferrable skills needed to work with business and non-academic partners to deliver real-world change.
This includes a research project at a partner-specific Field Lab at the start of the Summer vacation. Students work in teams, engaging with stakeholders and applying research methods to develop project proposals.
The result of the Field Lab is an implementable and evidence-based proposal relating to one or more of the SDGs.
Our student Fellows are drawn from across the University reflecting our commitment to interdisciplinary learning.
“The chance to present our team's energy efficiency initiative to the senior leadership team at BMW's MINI Plant was an unparalleled experience. In that boardroom, I felt the weight and significance of our achievements. I realized that the project we had nurtured was no longer an academic exercise confined to research papers and simulation models; it was a viable, impactful solution deserving boardroom-level attention.“