Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	76.71
Liaison	Gioia Thompson
Submission Date	Feb. 6, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Vermont
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	11.52 / 12.00	Gioia Thompson Sustainability Strategist UVM Office of Sustainability

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

1,439

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

204

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

14.18

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

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

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

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

73.08

Research Inventory

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

AC09_Research_Inventory_for_STARS_upload.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

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

UVM uses a service called Academic Analytics (AA) to track and compare our research to other institutions. AA staff generated a report of all research in the previous 3 years that matched sustainability keywords we provided and 2315 unique works were returned. Two Office of Sustainability (OS) employees independently verified the report to identify false matches and associate each matched work with a UN SDG. Works by 204 of those researchers were confirmed as being sustainability research. This totaled 38. The home departments of those researchers were used to create the number of departments conducting sustainability research. When multiple researchers/departments were listed as authors of the same work, each were considered to be doing sustainability research. The number of total departments conducting research was determined by counting the total number of departments affiliated within the 1439 researchers, ending up with 52.

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

https://www.uvm.edu/gund

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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