Are you an Oxfordshire-based organisation working to tackle inequality? Apply now to join the 2025 Community Impact Lab Programme, where you’ll collaborate with Oxford researchers on projects addressing local challenges. Expression of interest closes at 12 noon on 15th November 2024.
The SDG Impact Lab works with external partners to develop innovative, research-based solutions to organisational challenges and problems. Our Lab Fellows are trained to work with business, public and social enterprises. These leading graduate students apply research expertise to test and translate creative ideas into actionable proposals that have a real impact in line with the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Our programmes enable our partners to:
- Collaborate with a new generation of world-leading graduate students
- Access bespoke and innovative research on sustainable development
- Translate tailored research into organisational change in line with the SDGs
See some examples of impact projects that Lab Fellows have worked on.
We have worked with various organisations to develop SDG-focused solutions to strategic and operational challenges.
If you would like to know more about partnering with the Lab, please get in touch.
"This collaboration is about accelerating positive change, pushing boundaries and creating real and measurable impact”
Nico Rosberg, 2016 Formula 1 World Champion & Sustainability Entrepreneur
"Working with the Lab has allowed us to harness the fresh perspectives and multi-disciplinary mindset of its talented Fellows. Their invaluable research stands as a cornerstone, propelling us forward as we forge the first UN Tourism's ESG Framework for Tourism Businesses"
Zoritsa Urosevic, United Nations UN Tourism
"Partnering with the Lab is helping us with our ambition to lead on the topic of sustainability as this will be the most crucial success factor for businesses in the coming decades”
Dr Markus Gruneisl, CEO BMW (UK) Manufacturing
“The partnership with the University of Oxford and the Oxford SDG Impact Lab is so important for our goals of education and collaboration"
Scott Lawson, Customer and Operations Integration Lead, easyJet holidays