Share this story   

Explore 'sustainability and society' with our Business School

to read

Ever wondered how a city can be ‘smart’? Or what the real cost of keeping up with fashion is?

Issue 10 of our Business School’s award-winning magazine, IMPACT, is out now. Themed around ‘sustainability and society’, the issue looks at our research on sustainability and addresses what this means for business in the widest sense – not just climate change – but our global responsibility to manage the planet’s resources.


The magazine also looks at other issues facing society and ways we, as individuals as well as organisations, can make an impact on the world we share.

Features include:

Influencing change: the complexity of social media activism
 
Social media is a powerful tool for inciting positive change – but it can also lead to disingenuous or even harmful outcomes. Dr Mariann Hardey reflects on its role in social activism. 

Islamic finance and sustainable development

The funding needed to achieve the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goals is huge and Professor Habib Ahmed investigates how Islamic finance can contribute.

The rise of the smart city

How do you begin to design an ‘intelligent’ city fit for the future? Professor Kiran Fernandes explains how his work with the ‘indexDNA’ framework is shaping urban development.

Exposing the stigma around social housing

For those living in social housing the extreme stigmatisation of estates has an impact on everything from employment to healthcare as Dr Mercy Denedo’s joint research project discovers.

The 6,000-mile doctorate: my first year on the Durham DBA

Current Durham DBA candidate, Asrif Yussof shares his story of beginning his DBA amid a pandemic and locked-down in Kuala Lumpa.

...and many more.

Read the latest issue of IMPACT here.

More information

Previous issues of IMPACT can be viewed here.

 

 

   Share this story   

Start the discussion

 

Contribute

Do you have a story to share? We want to hear from you! Get in touch via dialogue@durham.ac.uk.