The UCD Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) aims to promote and foster Education, Research, and Policy Outreach on Sustainable Development. It is comprised of an interdisciplinary group of academics, researchers, and students whose work focuses on contemporary sustainable development issues.
UCD has a long tradition of involvement in sustainable development, including a direct role in the development of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) through the advocacy of Professor Paul Walsh (SPIRe), who represented universities in the intergovernmental negotiations on the SDGs. Through this work, the role of academia, science, research, and innovation are firmly embedded within the SDGs and UCD has special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council as a Non-Governmental Actor, creating a pathway for ongoing global influence in global public policy. UCD is fully committed to sustainability as outlined in its first Sustainability Report with a structured programme designed to embed the UN SDGs across the University’s education, research, governance, and engagement activities.
Prof. Garikipati specialises in research on the political economy of growth and development, with a nuanced focus on gender, public policy, development finance, social exclusion, female labour force participation, reproductive health, and intra-household bargaining, primarily in India and sub-Saharan Africa...
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Her research focuses on the dynamics of political violence in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular attention to the role of conflict in humanitarian crises...
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He also serves as Director of the PhD program in Global Human Development. He Chairs the Athena Swan Application Committee...
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Vice President of Education, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the SDG Academy. Prof Patrick Paul Walsh received a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1994. He is a...
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He completed his PhD at Indiana University (IN, USA). Prior to coming to UCD he worked as an Economic Adviser to the Federated States of Micronesia...
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