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The Centre for Climate Justice Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow Caledonian University’s Application to UArctic Professor Tahseen Jafry

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

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

• Academic excellence • Over 100 degree programmes • Engaging globally • Largest receiver of Erasmus+ funding in UK • Applied research • Over 16k students and 1.5k staff • Innovating for social from more than 100 countries Education and economic impact • Top modern university in Scotland • Outstanding student by research power experience 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)

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

• 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) Growing • Seeking to develop more joint Master partnerships programmes (e.g. MUrCS) • Build upon established Erasmus+ exchanges with Finland, Norway and Sweden • Developing research & policy collaborations (Arctic Spirit, Arctic Assembly)

The Centre for Climate Justice Glasgow Caledonian University Thank you Tahseen Jafry t.jafry@gcu.ac.uk