The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) underpin all of our activities as an institution, and serve as a valuable framework for how we're addressing some of the biggest challenges facing humanity through our research, teaching, operations and external engagement.
Each year we are assessed on how we are tracking towards the SDGs as part of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings which attempt to demonstrate the contribution of institutions all around the world towards the advancement of humanity.
Out of 1117 institutions from 94 countries who participated in 2020, the University of Waikato ranked in the 101-200 bracket overall, and within the top 100 institutions against two of the SDG categories.
Click on the tiles below to find more detail of how we contributed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2020.
Lynda Johnston
Assistant Vice-Chancellor Sustainability
Professor Lynda Johnston was recently appointed to a new role of Assistant Vice-Chancellor Sustainability. She is focused on shaping the University’s strategic academic approach to sustainability and environmental management, and providing academic leadership and oversight of its activities using the SDGs as a framework.
She is passionate about using the power of our research and our people to make significant, positive contributions on both a local and global scale and will play a key role in raising awareness of sustainability among staff, students and the wider community, and encouraging responsible use of resources via research, operational practices, partnerships, teaching and learning.