Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 83.12
Liaison Richard Manton
Submission Date Sept. 12, 2024

STARS v2.2

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Gesche Kindermann
Lecturer - Microbiology
CUSP
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
762

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
583

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
76.51

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
19

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
19

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
100

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

The attached Excel spreadsheet shows University of Galway authors' publications aligned to each SDG.This inventory lists each researcher, their Scopus author ID and the SDG which their research is aligned to. The Scopus ID can be used to find their research profile online, showing the researchers department, publications and further information. 


A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

Elsevier provide a service through Scival to conduct an analysis of an institutions research output alignment to the SDGs. This is how the above inventory has been created. Scival conduct this analysis through a keyword search, highlighting topics that relate to the SDGs. In University of Galway's case, the last 5 years of publications have been scanned and it shows that 76.5% of staff (583/762 research staff) have at least 1 publication aligned to the SDGs between 2019 and 2023. More info on how Elsevier carry out this analysis is available at the link below. The Excel spreadsheet which supports this analysis is attached below.

https://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/societal-impact-research-with-scival


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