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A university’s transformational change agenda (2023)
Book Chapter
Longhurst, J., Gough, G., & Brooks, I. (2023). A university’s transformational change agenda. In W. M. Purcell, & J. Haddock-Fraser (Eds.), Bloomsbury Handbook Of Sustainability In Higher Education: An Agenda For Transformational Change. Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter presents a chronological review of the University of West of England, Bristol (UWE) and its engagement with the environmental agenda of the late 20th century before reviewing its transformational sustainability agenda over the last twent... Read More about A university’s transformational change agenda.

Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Brooks, I. (2020, November). Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Presented at Christian Rural and Environmental Studies, Online

Conference report on research into the state of Christian engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Focus on the UK). Reports on interviews with stakeholders and quantitative research using page counts on church web do... Read More about Christian engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Brooks, I. (2020). The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements. In ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (196-199). https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401359

This paper discusses a PhD research project testing the hypothesis that using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) [18] as explicit inputs to drive the Software Requirements Engineering process will result in requirements with impro... Read More about The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements.

ICT Sustainability from Day One: Introducing New Computer Science Students at a UK University to Sustainability (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Brooks, I. (2019). ICT Sustainability from Day One: Introducing New Computer Science Students at a UK University to Sustainability

As ICT impacts dramatically on the sustainability of the world and of individuals, both positive and negative, there is an urgent need to educate Computer Science students about Sustainability. This paper assesses the experience of a project to intro... Read More about ICT Sustainability from Day One: Introducing New Computer Science Students at a UK University to Sustainability.

Analysing cancer care informatics through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - A review and assessment (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Brooks, I., Longhurst, J., Kossmann, M., Mansour, A., Odeh, M., & Tbakhi, A. (2019). Analysing cancer care informatics through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - A review and assessment. . https://doi.org/10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618264

© 2018 IEEE. Cancer Care Informatics (CCI) and its impacts are assessed using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The positive and negative impacts of CCI on the SDGs are considered through a literature review and expert assessme... Read More about Analysing cancer care informatics through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - A review and assessment.

Implementing the United Nations sustainable development goals for the systems engineering of multinational corporations (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Brooks, I., Kossmann, M., Longhurst, J., & Odeh, M. (2018, July). Implementing the United Nations sustainable development goals for the systems engineering of multinational corporations. Paper presented at Delivering Systems in the Age of Globalization, Washington DC, USA

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 by 193 countries. They can be characterised as sustainability ‘requirements’ for the global system. This paper provides a vision of how Multinational Companies (MNCs) are... Read More about Implementing the United Nations sustainable development goals for the systems engineering of multinational corporations.

The local implementation of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals by an international charity project in Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Brooks, I., & Kossmann, M. (2017). The local implementation of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals by an international charity project in Africa

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) framework was signed by virtually every nation on earth in 2015 and addresses topics ranging from environmental protection; via equal opportunities, education and the eradication of diseases;... Read More about The local implementation of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals by an international charity project in Africa.

Green software engineering for airbus avionics (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Brooks, I. (2016, October). Green software engineering for airbus avionics. Presented at EU Ashley Project Public Forum 2016, Bristol, UK

Presentation at EU Ashley Project Public Forum 25 October 2016. Presentation examines the risks from Software Engineering without sustainability requirements and looks at the use of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to de-risk avionics software en... Read More about Green software engineering for airbus avionics.

Codebook - UN Sustainable Development Goals
Digital Artefact
Brooks, I., & Silver, C. Codebook - UN Sustainable Development Goals. [qdc file. Rotterdam Exchange Format Initiative (REFI) compliant]

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Targets in REFI codebook format for Qualitative Research Software. Text from UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1. Codebook created by Ian Brooks (ian.brooks@uwe.ac.uk) and Christina Silver (c... Read More about Codebook - UN Sustainable Development Goals.