• International Women’s Day

    International Women’s Day 2025 – For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment. Saturday 8th March 2025 SDGs Goal 5 – Gender Equality. An opportunity to reflect on progress made, to call for change, and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of…

  • Edge Hill Academic invited to the Caribbean to talk about Botanic Gardens and SDGs

    Nicholas Catahan, self-proclaimed “Place Ecologist”, Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer at our Business School was invited by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), tourism development agency linked to the Ministry of Tourism, and Royal Botanic Gardens of Trinidad and Tobago, to talk about cutting edge research on Botanic Gardens worldwide, their development and their instrumental part…

  • UN Day 2020: Moving a global vision to local action

    With the United Nation’s marking its 75th anniversary this weekend, a team of academics at Edge Hill University have warned that greater local action is needed in order to deliver a sustainable future for the planet.   The 17 SDGs were adopted by all UN member states, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which set out an ambitious 15-year plan to achieve the goals.  With the 10-year countdown on to meet the 2030 Agenda, a…