UN SDGs

In addition to our work on PRME, Queen’s Business School is also committed to promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through our teaching, research and engagement activities. The 17 interconnected SDGs provide a framework to achieve a better future for all by addressing poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.

The SDGs are embedded across all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at QBS. Our curricula integrate SDG-focused modules, case studies, projects, and interactive learning activities. Faculty collaboration ensures sustainability principles inform teaching, research, and extracurricular experiences – such as this transformative community impact project with Compass Advocacy Network. This fosters responsible leadership and equips students to address global challenges through ethical, sustainable, and innovation-led business approaches. 

In 2023, the QBS was delighted to appoint Ambassador David Donoghue as an Honorary Professor of Practice. From 2013–2017, Ambassador Donoghue was Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, co-facilitating negotiations on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015) and the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016). Retiring from the Irish foreign service in September 2017, Ambassador Donoghue has since engaged extensively around the implementation of the UN SDGs. He contributes to several think tanks and academic bodies, focusing on sustainable development, migration, and conflict resolution. He is, inter alia, a Distinguished Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Executive Committee Chair of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Ireland.