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Dear PRME Colleagues Today is the final day to submit to participate in our 2024 Annual conference and Doctoral Colloquium and as we look forward to welcoming speakers and delegates to the University of Exeter Business School in June we are opening the call for a PRME School to host the UK and Ireland Chapter conference in 2025. Our conferences are a highlight of the Chapter calendar offering us opportunities to advance scholarship, enhance and share practice as well as build community amongst responsible management educators, researchers, industry practitioners and students. Our conferences offer cutting-edge keynotes and panels from international experts whilst maintain a friendly and collegial environment. They provide a showcase for the UK and Ireland Chapter-funded teaching and research initiatives developed from our annual competitions, as well as an opportunity to review the Chapter’s activities at our AGM. Our conferences normally take place over two days, in late June or early July. In 2021 we added a one-day Doctoral Colloquium to the programme, held on the day before the main conference starts, and hosted by the conference host. Previous hosts have reported that holding our conferences has substantially added to the momentum behind PRME within their schools. We hope this briefing document will help you decide if being a host would be good for your institution. If you would like an informal discussion any aspect of hosting the UKI PRME conference in advance of submitting your Expression of Interest, please contact the Chair Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas via our Secretariat. Completed Expressions of Interest should be emailed to our Secretariat and copied to our Secretary Dr Karen Cripps by 5pm BST on 10 May 2024. Please title your email EoI PRME Chapter UK and Ireland Conference Host 2025.

Reminder to Submit - PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Doctoral Colloquium and Annual Conference There is still time to put forward proposals for the PRME UK and Ireland Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024 ‘Educating for Deep Transformation: Business Schools’ contribution to a Greener, Healthier, Fairer Society’ to be held at the University of Exeter 19th-21st June 2024. The Submission Deadline have been extended to 12 April 2024 and the Acceptance of Notification extended to 30 April 2024. Submit a 500-word abstract (12 font, 1.5 spacing), a short biography with a link to your online profile to bs-accreditation@exeter.ac.uk Please title the email ‘PRME UK&I 2024 Conference – Call for Paper Submission’ Full details on the Conference Call for Papers can be found at the Conference website. Shaping a Sustainability Mindset: Innovative Pedagogical Approaches for Integrating the UN SDGs into Management Education A webinar is being held by the Northwest Local Network with the theme of Sustainability Mindset and will be of interest to anyone involved in higher education and professional training. This session will be an opportunity to hear insights and challenges from experienced educators and be inspired and motivated to consider applying innovative pedagogical approaches in your practice. The event will take place on Thursday 2nd May from 11:00am to 12:12pm. As we are faced with various unprecedented challenges, including natural disasters, geopolitical instability, social inequality, and financial disparity instability, universities are under immense pressure to ensure that students receive an education that enables them to contribute to sustainable solutions. During this session, a panel of academics will discuss teaching strategies that help students develop skills and competencies necessary for creating sustainable and equitable futures. The panel will focus on innovative teaching methods that can aid in integrating sustainability content into teaching, learning, and assessment. Topics discussed will include, but are not limited to, embedding the UN SDGs in teaching & learning and assessment, sustainability mindset and inclusivity, skills and competencies for sustainable futures, hopeful futures. Invited panellists are presented below in alphabetical order: • Dr Helena Kettleborough, Lecturer of Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School • Dr Laura Menzies, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Liverpool • Dr Katie Neary, Lecturer in International Business Management at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University Business School • Prof Sally Randles, Professor of Sustainability and Innovation, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School *Each speaker will have 15 minutes to outline their thoughts and experiences before taking questions from the audience. To register attendance, please complete the registration form via this link. Our Local Networks offer a forum and environment to promote PRME, to organise and participate with local events, themed conferences and other activities, as well as assisting in preparing colleagues for their PRME SIP report. Contact: Dr Konstantina Skritsovali,  k.skritsovali@ljmu.ac.uk Shared open resources on sustainability for employability The interest group on 'Employability, Sustainability and Jobs of the Future' hosted a webinar on March 13 on 'Career Story Telling for the Sustainable Development Goals', at which open resources were launched of a powerpoint, worksheet and educator guide. These can be accessed on this link, along with a webinar recording that featured a keynote presentation from Dr Arti Kumar NTF MBE, author of 'SOAR-ing to success'.  Student prize winners of a competition linked to the workshop joined in the event, adding to the sense of community among educators, career professionals and students. Congratulations to Ciara Shamsi - BA Business and Management at the University of Reading, Lauren Buckley - MSc Corporate Environmental Management at the University of Surrey, and Jon Andrews - MSc Sustainable Development in Practice at the University of West England. This project was funded by seed funding for 'Developing innovative pedagogies and teaching practices' 2023 and involved delivery of the masterclass to around 800 students at almost 20 universities. The resources represent the refined versions based on working with collaborators and students across hosting universities. It would not have been possible without PRME community support. The team is happy to discuss this with anyone interested. Please contact Karen Cripps (kcripps@brookes.ac.uk), Cathy d'Abreu (cdabreu@brookes.ac.uk), Milena Bobeva (mbobeva@brookes.ac.uk).  Also available for anyone interested is the recently published Advance HE Guide to ESD in Practice on the first version of this workshop - see: Cripps, K. (2024) ‘Addressing the employability-sustainability curriculum gap: a masterclass’; click here for more details. The webinar was hosted by the PRME UKI Interest Group on 'Employability, Sustainability and Jobs of the Future', co led by Dr Jonathan Louw (jlouw@brookes.ac.uk) and Dr Karen Cripps at Oxford Brookes University. Get in touch with them if you would like to join the mailing list for meeting invites or join the LinkedIn Group, (search for 'PRME UKI Employability, Sustainability and Jobs of the Future'). Register for PRME Global Forum: Accelerating our Common Agenda The 2024 PRME Global Forum’s strategic vision is to accelerate the global collective impact of responsible management education while also serving as a space to learn and connect with passionate stakeholders. It will bring together all walks of life from business, academia, the United Nations, the public sector, and the PRME community to accelerate the positive impact responsible management and business education is making on the leaders of tomorrow. The 2024 PRME Global Forum will be taking place online on 18 June 2024. Following the "chasing the sun" method, PRME will offer 16 hours of programming spanning a variety of time zones to reach our global community: Early-bird registration is open until 30 April. Register for PRME Local Network Event: Sharing Experiences of SIP 2.0 – 8th April This is a reminder that there is still time to register for the PRME Local Network Event: Sharing Experiences of SIP 2.0 which will be help on the 8th of April between 16:00 and 17:00.  Details of the event can be found here.  To register please click here. PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Conference Hosts 2025 PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Annual Conference and Doctoral Colloquium will shortly be opening the call for expressions of interest for hosting in 2025. Watch this space!.

The PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Annual Conference will be held 20-21 June 2024 at the University of Exeter Business School. This year’s theme: ‘Educating for Deep Transformation: Business Schools’ contribution to a Greener, Healthier and Fairer Society’ invites academics, practitioners from for-profit and non-profit organisations and post-graduate students to submit proposals for conference sessions from relevant pedagogical, research and/or practitioner perspectives, as well as proposals for interactive workshops, within the scope of three tracks: Greener, Healthier, Fairer. Track 1. Greener Climate change and biodiversity degradation present two critical threats to a healthier and fairer future. How are PRME Business Schools teaching and researching in these areas, and what mitigation, adaptation and regeneration strategies need more recognition? Track 2. Healthier ‘Good health and well-being’ (SDG Goal 3) aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages. Health is more than the absence of disease. It involves the capabilities required to live fulfilled lives. Achieving a healthier world is inseparable from the other SDGs and requires research, education and leadership. Track 3. Fairer Artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technologies are becoming more integrated into businesses and educational institutions, and are changing the way we live, work and play. Regulatory frameworks, ethical codes of conduct and moral norms are vital to harness the benefits of new technologies and limit the harms. New technologies raise issues around diversity, inclusion, privacy and the democratic participation of users. Various options for managing the Internet are emerging and are entangled in wider global geopolitical struggles represented by different approaches in the EU, US, and China. Submissions [*Now Extended to 12 April 2024] Acceptance of Notification [Now Extended to 30 April 2024] Submit a 500-word abstract (12 font, 1.5 spacing), a short biography with a link to your online profile to bs-accreditation@exeter.ac.uk Please title the email ‘PRME UK&I 2024 Conference – Call for Paper Submission’. Full details on the Conference Call for Papers can be found at the Conference website

PRME UKI Interest Group on Sustainability, Employability and Jobs for the Future The PRME UKI Interest Group on Employability, Sustainability and Jobs of the Future (co-led by Dr Jonathan Louw MCIPD SFHEA and Dr Karen Cripps) invite all to the forthcoming session on 13th March from 2.30pm - 4.00pm. This will host Arti Kumar MBE as a keynote presenter to celebrate the close of the 'Career Story Telling for the Sustainable Development Goals' workshops. Arti’s keynote speech will unravel the key features of SOARing to Success as a principled, inclusive and interconnected approach. She will show how staff can animate the four dimensions of SOAR as a process of personalised learning that enables all students to constructively align their aspirations and employability development with sustainable development goals. The SOAR framework was used to structure the 'Career Story Telling for the Sustainable Development Goals' workshop that was delivered at over 20 universities as part of PRME seed funding for pedagogic innovations 2023 (by Karen Cripps, Cathy d'Abreu and Dr Milena Bobeva).The session will include insights from collaborating colleagues and students, share the resources developed through the project, and host an open discussion on approaches to embedding 'employability for sustainability' within the curriculum. You can read more about the project and collaborators in the link below and the zoom registration link here.  You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Mar 13, 2024 02:30 PM LondonTo register in advance for this meeting click here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. PRME Global Student Sustainability Awards Open We are delighted to share that submissions for the 2024 PRME Global Student Sustainability Awards are open! All Sustainability-oriented student organisations associated with PRME Signatory Members from the PRME Chapter UK & Ireland are encouraged to apply! Submissions should be completed through a SUBMISSION FORM (deadline: 31st March 2024 at 23:59 ET) to be filled by a student organisation representative, who must be a student formally enrolled with a PRME Signatory Member during the 2023 calendar year. Applicants can find all the information about the Awards structure, submission criteria and requirements by accessing the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – TERMS OF REFERENCE. There, you will see that the PGS Sustainability Awards are divided into two phases: Regional Awards (February to May) and Global Awards (May to June). Due to a partnership with Marketplace Simulations, on the 18th June 2024, PRME will celebrate the Regional Winners and award the Global Winner during the 2024 PRME Global Forum. On occasion, the student organisation awarded as the Global Winner will receive a USD $2,000 monetary prize to increase the impact of their local initiatives! The PGS Team will host two informational webinars to present the 2024 PGS Sustainability Awards and answer any questions regarding the application processes.  Please find below the registration links to these informational sessions: ·       Informational Webinar 1 – 8th March, 12.00 to 13.00 CET (register here) ·       Informational Webinar 2 – 18th March, 17.00 to 18.00 CET (register here) PRME UK and Ireland Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024 The Calls for Proposals are open for the PRME UK and Ireland Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024 ‘Educating for Deep Transformation: Business Schools’ contribution to a Greener, Healthier, Fairer Society’ to be held at the University of Exeter 19th-21st June 2024. Submission Deadlines: Doctoral Colloquium: Tuesday 12th March 2024 Conference: Tuesday 19th March 2024 Details of the Calls can be found here. Additional information can be found here. 2024 PRME Faculty Teaching Awards: Applications are Open The PRME Faculty Teaching Awards recognize excellence in teaching sustainable development and responsible management practices in business education. They seek to honour innovative and impactful pedagogical contributions that advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and align with the pedagogical interests of the PRME community. Eligibility: Faculty at PRME Signatory institutions from all levels and disciplines. Applications can be submitted from individuals or as a team application of no more than six. Submissions close: 31st March 2024. For more details click here.

In sharing our tenth anniversary report , the PRME UK and Ireland Steering Committee would like to extend an enormous debt of gratitude to our outgoing Chair, Dr Jonathan Louw, whose inimitable leadership carried the Chapter from 2021-2023. We are extremely grateful for his tireless work and congratulate him on his appointment to the PRME Global Chapter Council. Introduction by Dr Jonathan Louw, PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Chair 2021-23 I am delighted to give you, our chapter members and friends, this opportunity to read our Tenth Anniversary Report. I hope that in its pages you will not only recognise initiatives and events that you have contributed to but also find inspiration and hope for the future of Responsible Management Education (RME) in the decade ahead. The report offers a reflection not only on our 2023 anniversary celebrations but also on a cross section of activities over the preceding decade. Since our foundation in 2013, our Chapter has grown, diversified and increasingly made its mark in the Business School sector. Today we have some 109 PRME signatories across the Republic of Ireland and UK, making us a voice for and symbol of responsible management education and research in some 80% of Business Schools within our region. Moreover, staff and students in our member institutions have played a visible and effective role in many PRME Global initiatives: the Climate Change and Environment Working Group, the PRME i5 Innovative Pedagogy project and PRME Global Students being just three examples. As a Chapter, we have always sought to stay focused on our member interests, principally by providing vehicles for both staff and student involvement in advancing teaching, learning and increasingly research that make clear contributions to sustainability in all its forms. Within our Tenth Anniversary Report, you will see reminders of our now very established portfolio of awards and competitions (research, pedagogy and student writing) and a visual reminder of the journey taken by our Annual Chapter Conferences over the years. To all our conference hosts go particular thanks for the outsized contributions they have made to creating a vibrant and supportive Chapter community over the past ten years. For some five years, we have also invested significant time and resource in the establishment of seven Local Networks, the aim being to provide easy entry points into the PRME community wherever you are. Of special note too has been the increasing chapter commitment to peer learning and organisational development, most notably through our introduction of biennial PRME Leads' Onboarding events and our series of briefings on good practice in Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reporting. Of course, as in individual institutions, so also at Chapter level these last ten years have not all been plain sailing. The Covid pandemic brought our in-person meetings and our 2020 conference to a grinding halt. Whilst we joined the switch to online events, participation in some of our activities did drop for a while. More significantly, in many respects the world in which we advocate for responsible and sustainable business practices and management education is now less stable and more confronted by ecological, social, technological and political crises than when we were founded. Our members’ active engagement with all these issues has been apparent in so many ways, not least in the papers and workshops presented at our conferences. PRME whether at global or chapter level is but one player in an ecosystem of RME actors and, truism though it may be, we are stronger in facing crises and exploring solutions when working in collaboration. In this light, I have been particularly gratified as outgoing Chair to play a role in shaping an intended long-term collaboration on all RME issues with the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). The first example of this is our joint sponsorship of the “Future Fit Curriculum” strand of the upcoming CABS Learning, Teaching and Student Experience conference to be held in May 2024. Since stepping down as Chair, I have taken up a role as a member of the PRME Global Chapter Council, following in the footsteps of my predecessor as Chair, Alec Wersun. In this capacity, I can already see the benefits that some of the other 16 regional chapters are gaining from collaborations in their spheres, and I look forward to spreading the learning from these initiatives both within what remains my “home chapter” and beyond. At the same time, I hope to share some of the UK and Ireland experience of successfully signing up new members and the benefits of providing multiple local as well as chapter-level points of engagement with the rest of PRME, because PRME globally is still a long way off the 80% sector density achieved in this region. In closing, I would particularly like to thank Katie Lee, our 2023 intern, for her work in producing our Tenth Anniversary Report. As a joint appointment with the UN Global Compact UK Network, her work also represents just one facet of the invaluable co-operation and support we have enjoyed in our relationship with the UNGC over the years. My thanks also go to our original founders, and all the past and present members of the Chapter Steering Committee with whom I have worked since 2017 – it has been a collegial and rewarding experience. I have no doubt that the chapter will continue to play a robust and thoughtful role within the RME sphere in the hands of the current committee. Finally, thank you to all our Irish and UK signatories and chapter members for embracing the challenge of making ethics, responsibility and sustainability a living part of all that you do. Dr Jonathan Louw, PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Chair 2021-23

The UK and Ireland Chapter of PRME is delighted to confirm the winners of our fourth Seed Funding Competition for Developing Innovative Pedagogic Approaches and Teaching Practices in PRME. The Innovative Pedagogy Competition was developed to encourage innovation, experimentation, and impact in PRME related teaching. It also recognises the fact that financial barriers frequently exist that prevent individuals and groups from putting their ideas into practice. In 2023, we received a large number of high-quality submissions addressing a wide range of relevant issues. The following projects were awarded funding to a total value of £6,000. We look forward to sharing their outputs with the PRME community in due course: David Anderson and Davina Bird (Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln), Learning the Principles of Responsible Management through Customised Card Games. Dr Johanna Clancy (J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, University of Galway), “A Better World Through Better Business”: Responsible Management in Action. Dr Darren Jubb, Dr Vicky Lambert, and Dr Lee Roberts (School of Business, University of Dundee), The Co-creation of a Sustainability Game-based Learning Resource through Stakeholder Dialogue. Dr Rosalyn Marron, Dr Helena Mary Kettleborough, and Dr Kate Seymour (Manchester Metropolitan University), Developing Spaces to Flourish: Outdoor/Indoor Eco Reflexive Learning. Dr Alessandro Merendino (School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London), Dr Paula Serafini (School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London), Professor Nick McGuigan (Monash University), and Dr Nadia Gulko (Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln), Co-designing Critical and Creative Tools for Embedding Sustainability and SDGs in the Business Curriculum: Creating the ‘Sustainability Toolkit & Playbook’. PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Chair, Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas EdD, said of the competition: “As a champion of transformative teaching, I would like to thank all the educators that entered this year’s Innovative Pedagogy competition and congratulate our worthy winners. Being a former judge, I know first-hand that the range of proposals is wide and the quality of entries is extremely high. On behalf of the Steering Committee, I would like to thank Dr Laura Steele and Dr Claire May for organising another successful cycle, and all our judges for their support. I look forward to seeing the impact these projects make on the teaching and learning experiences across UK and Ireland Chapter institutions.” We wish to extend our gratitude to the judging panel, namely Dr Anupam Mehta (Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham); Dr Neil Pyper (Birkbeck, University of London); Dr Sean Tanner (Cork University Business School, University College Cork); and Dr Lauren Traczykowski (Aston Business School, Aston University). The competition was organised by Dr Claire May (Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln) and Dr Laura Steele (Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast) on behalf of the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Steering Committee. For any queries in relation to the Seed Funding Competition for Developing Innovative Pedagogic Approaches and Teaching Practices in PRME, please contact Laura Steele at Queen’s Business School. Intern - UN Global Compact Network UK/PRME UKI Deadline 19th February 9am. PRME UK and Ireland Chapter and the UN Global Compact UK are seeking a full-time paid Intern to support Chapter programming and the work of the UN Global Compact Network UK Participant Engagement Team. The internship will be based in the UNGC UK London office for a minimum of 2 days a week, with the option of hybrid working. The internship is for 6 months, with the possibility of extension and/or conversion into a permanent role. For full details and to apply https://app.beapplied.com/apply/1rdkde0pl5. PRME UK and Ireland Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024 – Calls for Papers The Calls for Proposals are open for the PRME UK and Ireland Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024 ‘Educating for Deep Transformation: Business Schools’ contribution to a Greener, Healthier, Fairer Society’ to be held at the University of Exeter 19-21 June. Submission Deadlines: Doctoral Colloquium: Tuesday 12 March Conference: Tuesday 19 March Details of the Calls can be found here https://www.unprme.org.uk/post/a-greener-healthier-fairer-society-conference-call-for-papers-2024. PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Onboarding Session for New PRME Leads Webinar 4 March 2024 Are you a new PRME Lead within the UK or Ireland? Would you benefit from learning more about PRME, including opportunities for faculty and student engagement? If so, please join us on Monday 4 March 2024 at 4pm for an 'Onboarding Session for New PRME Leads' webinar. The session will cover: An overview of the objectives, structure and work of PRME. Different ways to engage with PRME at a local, national and international level. Key aspects of the PRME Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reporting framework Q&A with established PRME Leads from within the UK and Ireland Chapter Book via this link. PRME UK and Ireland Chapter SIP 2.0 Webinar 8 March 2024 The process of PRME Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reporting is changing. From 2024, signatories will be required to complete and submit the new PRME SIP questionnaire via the PRME Commons Platform. To help prepare for these changes, the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter will be hosting a webinar on Friday 8 March 2024 from 2-3:30pm. Book via this link. For any questions, email Laura Steele PRME UK and Ireland Vice Chair and Steering Committee Co-Lead for Organisational Learning and SIP Reporting. Student Writing Competition - Deadline Approaching on 28 February Our 8th Chapter Responsible Business and Management Student Writing Competition is underway, but the deadline for submissions is fast approaching on 28th February. Many of you will have been  assessing student work in recent weeks, so now is the perfect time to identify any relevant, high quality student research and writing and ensure entries are made. Student work submitted anytime during the 2023 calendar year can be entered in the 23/24 competition. As always there are three categories: Taught PG essays and reports; UG essays and reports; and Alternative Media entries (PG or UG). Full details of the competition can be found here. News items and Chapter Events Calendar Please send details of events and opportunities relevant to the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter to our PRME Administrator, Jackie Hicken, on PRME@bcu.ac.uk. If you are organising a PRME UK and Ireland Chapter-related event or wanting to find out what is on, please check our Chapter Events calendar. About the PRME Chapter UK and Ireland The PRME Chapter UK and Ireland is one of 17 Regional Chapters of the global United Nations PRME movement (established 2007). All Chapters are joined in a collective mission to transform management education and develop the responsible decision-makers of tomorrow to advance sustainable development. Globally, PRME has over 800 Higher Education Institutions as signatories. Established in 2013, the UKI Chapter currently has over 60 institutional members and is led by a ten person Steering Committee elected by the membership. The Chapter seeks to nurture a mutually supportive community of committed responsible management educators and researchers. Members benefit from a Chapter-wide event programme, an annual conference and doctoral colloquium, a growing set of Local Networks each with its own event schedule, and three annual, Chapter wide competitions focused on Innovative Pedagogies, Responsible Management Research and Student Writing. Full details of Chapter activities can be found on the Chapter Website. Follow us on X @PRME_UKI and LinkedIn.

The process of PRME Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reporting is changing. From 2024, signatories will be required to complete and submit the new PRME SIP questionnaire via the PRME Commons Platform. To help prepare for these changes, the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter will be hosting a webinar on Friday 8 March 2024 from 2-3:30pm. Book via Meeting Registration - Zoom. For any questions, email Laura Steele PRME UK and Ireland Vice Chair and Steering Committee Co-Lead for Organisational Learning and SIP Reporting.

Are you a new PRME Lead within the UK or Ireland? Would you benefit from learning more about PRME, including opportunities for faculty and student engagement? If so, please join us on Monday 4 March 2024 at 4pm for an 'Onboarding Session for New PRME Leads' webinar. The session will cover: ·       An overview of the objectives, structure and work of PRME. ·       Different ways to engage with PRME at a local, national and international level. ·       Key aspects of the PRME Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reporting framework ·       Q&A with established PRME Leads from within the UK and Ireland Chapter Book via Meeting Registration - Zoom

PRME UK and Ireland Chapter and the UN Global Compact UK are seeking a full-time paid Intern to support Chapter programming and the work of the UN Global Compact Network UK Participant Engagement Team. The internship will be based in the UNGC UK London office for a minimum of 2 days a week, with the option of hybrid working. The internship is for 6 months, with the possibility of extension and/or conversion into a permanent role. For full details and to apply Intern - UN Global Compact Network UK/PRME UKI - UN Global Compact Network UK - Applied (beapplied.com)

PRME CHAPTER UK AND IRELAND CONFERENCE AND DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 2024 CALLS FOR PAPERS Educating for Deep Transformation: Business Schools’ contribution to a Greener, Healthier and Fairer Society 19th June 2024 – Doctoral Colloquium 20th-21st June 2024 - Conference and Chapter AGM Location: University of Exeter Business School We are delighted to invite your proposals for contributions to our June 2024 annual conference and/or doctoral colloquium. Last year the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Ireland and UK Chapter reflected on 10 years of activity in the face of a planetary climate crisis. There was much to celebrate, but now we seek to build on the reflections of 2023 and look ahead to set an agenda for the next 10 years. The Tenth Anniversary conference made clear that PRME collaborators must continue to do three things to be a force for change. We must criticise current practices where they fall short of the horizon provided by moral and ethical norms. We must energise individuals and communities, so they are motivated and equipped to influence others as change agents. Most significantly, we must imagine our relation to the world in ways that break with current management orthodoxy, by re-instituting the ends that economies must serve. The current generation of educators carries the historic responsibility for developing the skills, sensibilities, strategies and systems that discipline profit seeking to the greater stories of ecological, social and spiritual significance. This year the conference is hosted by The University of Exeter, which is championing a Greener, Healthier and Fairer world as part of its 2030 Strategy. The conference organisers invite academics, practitioners from for-profit and non-profit organisations and post-graduate students to submit abstracts (proposals for conference papers) from relevant pedagogical, research and/or practitioner perspectives, as well as proposals for interactive workshops, within the scope of three tracks: Greener, Healthier, Fairer. Full Calls for both the Conference and Colloquium can be found below. A conference website and delegate booking information will be published during February. Submission Deadlines Doctoral Colloquium: Tuesday 12 March 2024 Conference: Tuesday 19th March 2024 We look forward to your many contributions and to welcoming you to Exeter in June 2024. Dr Adrian Bailey, Conference Organiser Dr Rachel Welton, Doctoral Colloquium Organiser Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Chair, PRME Chapter UK and Ireland

NEW YEAR UPDATE Chapter Sustainability and Employability Working Group Event – 16 January 2024 Partnership with Chartered ABS @ LTSE Conference – May 2024 Watch out for PRME Conference Call for Papers – due out this week Welcome to our first Chapter newsletter of 2024. It’s quite brief but contains two great opportunities to start your year working with the Chapter in a rewarding  way. PRME Chapter UK+ Ireland Sustainability and Employability Working Group Event – 16 January 2024, 12 – 1.30pm, online webinar Our events programme for the year is kicked off by the Chapter Working Group on Sustainability and Employability. Oli Coles, founder and CEO of the sustainability reporting platform, Windo, will offer a presentation entitled Employers' Sustainability Communications; Leading Practices for Young Talent Attraction. Windō holds sustainability data, including Environmental Impact, DEI (Diversity, Equity &Inclusion) and Employee Wellbeing data for 450+ companies. During this webinar Oli will unveil 14 Leading Practices for effectively communicating a company’s DEI and sustainability story and progress. The session will provide a comprehensive look at the adoption of these practices among FTSE100 companies, whilst highlighting employers from across the globe that excel at each practice and their influence on the job decisions of talented young people. Full event details are in this linked pdf. As part of the event, Working Group organisers Karen Cripps and Jonathan Louw will also introduce a research project into placement and graduate employer practices they are leading in tandem with Windo. This will also offer opportunities for other Chapter Members to contribute to the project through encouraging employers they are connected with to take part in the data gathering. Register for this event on Tuesday 16 January from 12-1.30pm here And do remember our Linkedin group as well Chapter Partnership with Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) We are delighted to partner with the Chartered Association of Business Schools for the 2024 CABS Learning Teaching & Student Experience (LTSE) conference to be held in Birmingham on 14-15 May 2024. CABS LTSE brings together over 400 participants representing 90% of the UK's business schools. This year's conference will explore: latest innovations in business and management education; how educators are supporting the health and wellbeing of students and fellow educators; how sustainability and climate action goals are being reflected in business & management education; and how business schools are tackling inequalities and working to support disadvantaged and underrepresented staff and students. CABS LTSE Theme 1: Creating future-fit graduates through innovative curricula and teaching is supported by PRME UKI. To ensure that the conference programme is of the highest quality each submission is peer reviewed by the Chartered ABS's Learning, Teaching & Student Experience Committee and other reviewers who are business & management academics and also a Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE). The Chapter has undertaken to help facilitate the management of Theme 1 in a variety of ways both before and at the LTSE. Right now, if you are a CMBE or AMBE, we would like to invite individuals from Chapter member schools to contribute to the scholarly process of creating the LTSE 2024 conference programme by volunteering as submission reviewers. If you do so volunteer, please make it clear on the CABS form that you are volunteering as a result of this appeal. Key LTSE Dates for your diary: Register as a Volunteer Reviewer – by 08:30 Tuesday 16 January via the link above Submission Deadline – Friday 26 January Reviewer Briefing – 16:00-17:00, Tues 30 January, via Zoom, see link above Submissions circulated to Review Panels – Wednesday 31 January Completed feedback forms returned to CABS – Wednesday 21 February Conference and Doctoral Colloquium 2024 – Calls for Papers The Calls for Proposals (papers, workshops, abstracts) will be out within the next few days. So watch your email inbox closely and, in the meantime, make sure that you have 20-21 June in your diary for the conference and 19 June if you would like to attend the Doctoral Colloquium. Both events will be hosted by and at the University of Exeter. Chapter Events Calendar If you’re organising a Chapter-related event or wanting to find out what is on, please remember to check our Chapter Events calendar. Additions and enquiries can be emailed to our PRME Administrator, Jackie Hicken, on PRME@bcu.ac.uk Items for future news updates Local Network Co-ordinators and other event organisers, when you run a PRME event do send us a short report afterwards (with links to any relevant resources) for wider publicity through these newsletters. Send items to Jackie Hicken on the email address noted above. That’s it for now – best wishes from the UK and Ireland Chapter Steering Committee.