“The Sustainable Development Goals... recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.”https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/Link opens in a new window

IATL’s educational provision is designed to empower students to think reflectively and critically and our modules have a focus on areas that align with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) such as global citizenship, cultural diversity, community engagement and transformational education.

To address the growing complexities of our globalized world, it is essential that students are equipped with the knowledge and tools to approach issues such as climate change, gender and educational inequality, poverty, hunger and health and wellbeing.

At IATL you will have the opportunity to enhance your understanding of and put into practice key areas of the UN’s Global Sustainable Development GoalsLink opens in a new window, and deepen your knowledge on how to become a globally engaged citizen at Warwick and beyond.

IATL Modules

At IATL modules focus on at least one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For example, IATL’s Rethinking Health SciencesLink opens in a new window explores science, life sciences and medicine to rethink the benefits and limitations of science and medicine in the Covid era and highlights SDG 3 alongside fostering the development of critical thinking and communication skills. On Reinventing EducationLink opens in a new window, students bring their prior experiences in various educational settings to design and justify new ways of doing education that provide a better fit with our diverse and changing ways of living, tying to SDG 4 which examines what it means to have access to Quality Education.

The breadth of ideas, topics and disciplines covered by Rethinking Health Science, Reinventing Education – and all IATL modules – reflects the interconnected nature of the global problems captured in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Poverty, health, education, gender equality and all the other goals cannot be entirely separated from each other, and IATL’s modules reflect that essential message.

Check out IATL’s UG Link opens in a new windowand PGT Link opens in a new windowmodules lists to find out more about how our modules connect to SDGs.

IATL and Beyond

Interested in taking your learning to the next step? IATL has developed partnerships across faculties and universities that centre on Global Sustainable Development.

IATL supported the development of the MSc in Humanitarian EngineeringLink opens in a new window, which runs in collaboration across IATL, the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, School of Law, School of Life Sciences, Warwick Business School, WMG, Warwick Medical School and the Warwick Institute of Engagement. This course focuses on integration of engineering with science, humanities and social sciences to invent, create, design, develop, or improve technologies which promote the well-being of poor, marginalised, under-served communities and, communities which face global challenges.

On IATL’s Global ConnectionsLink opens in a new window module, students will have the opportunity to participate in the EUTOPIA Global Connections cross-university initiative, which focuses on complex, transdisciplinary global issues. Students work with an international multidisciplinary group of students to complete a mini ‘Student Devised’ project together on a globally-oriented issue.