Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 68.36
Liaison Patricia Huynh
Submission Date Dec. 10, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Waterloo
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Patricia Huynh
Sustainability Projects Manager
Sustainability Office
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
1,394

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
337

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
24.18

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
45

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
42

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
93.33

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
AC_9_-_Research_and_scholarship.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:

The inventory includes Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and Professors. It does not include adjunct faculty or faculty emeriti, graduate student or post-doctoral research, or staff-led research. The Sustainability Office extracted publications connected to the SDGs on Scopus between 2018 and 2023 using SDG key terms. A researcher was considered to engage in sustainabililty research if they had at least 3 publications related to the same SDG.

After that list was compiled, descriptions of research/biographies were identified. For researchers whose biographies/research interests were not clearly connected to SDG targets, relevant recent publications were also listed, including the SDG targets they are related to.


Optional Fields 

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