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Glasgow Caledonian University’s Application to UArctic

Professor Tahseen Jafry

The Centre for Climate Justice Glasgow Caledonian University

The University for the Common Good

We will, through our values-based approach, promote a vibrant, harmonious, healthy University community of scholars, students and staff delivering for the Common Good as a civic University Research Strategy:

• Inclusive Societies
• Healthy Lives
• Sustainable Environments

Underpinned by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2030 Vision To be a world leader in social innovation through education and research

Our University Community

GCU Values Our campuses Health and safety Environment and sustainability Technology Social impact locally and globally Trade Unions and staff representation Students’ Association Research and knowledge transfer Partnership as a Civic University Equality, access and inclusion Community engagement and volunteering Staff and student mobility Diversity Student experience and support Staff engagement

Education

• Academic excellence
• Engaging globally
• Applied research
• Innovating for social

and economic impact

• Outstanding student

experience

• Over 100 degree programmes
• Largest receiver of Erasmus+

funding in UK

• Over 16k students and 1.5k staff

from more than 100 countries

• Top modern university in Scotland

by research power

Selected partnerships:

• Nursing exchange programmes with Denmark,

Norway, Sweden and Finland

• Joint Master of Urban Climate and Sustainability

(MUrCS) with Lahti University of Applied Sciences (LAMK)

Research

Six research centres GCU’s thematic, challenged- led interdisciplinary research centres underpinned by an inter-sectoral approach.

Selected projects & publications:

• Centre for Climate Justice: Scottish Arctic Policy

Mapping Report

• “The Cool Route” project (Northern Periphery

Programme)

• Copenhagen Consensus Statement 2019
• Topics: social work, welfare, mental health among

adolescents, violent extremism, risk management, economics

Growing partnerships

• Award-winning “Period Promoting

Excellence in Employability and Transversal Skills (PEETS)” student exchange programme (Scotland, Finland, Netherlands)

• WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing

& Midwifery Education, Research and Practice (Copenhagen)

• Seeking to develop more joint Master

programmes (e.g. MUrCS)

• Build upon established Erasmus+

exchanges with Finland, Norway and Sweden

• Developing research & policy

collaborations (Arctic Spirit, Arctic Assembly)

Thank you

Tahseen Jafry t.jafry@gcu.ac.uk

The Centre for Climate Justice Glasgow Caledonian University