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Dr Mark Charlton is Associate Director of Sustainable Development Goal Impact and Net Zero Research Theme Director. Mark also teaches public policy in the department of Politics. Since 2014, Mark has worked closely with the United Nations (UN) on a number of campaigns that engage university staff and students in global issues. Since 2016 Mark has led the United Nations Academic Impact Global hub for Sustainable Development Goal 16, based at Æß²ÊÖ±²¥, working across the university to develop research and teaching outputs that seek to impact and promote indicators of the SDGs. 

• The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA)
• Local Governance Research Centre (LGRC)
• Institute for Research in Criminology and Community and Social Justice
• Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD)

• Thomson, S, Reeves, A, and Charlton, M. ‘A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet: Uncovering the Hidden Service-Learning in UK Higher Education’s Pedagogical Practice’. In Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, edited by Enakshi Sengupta and Patrick Blessinger, 113–26. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022. .
• Charlton, M., Blair, A., 2021. Can Volunteering on ‘Real World’ Issues Influence Political Engagement among Young People? A UK Case Study, in: Teaching Civic Engagement Globally. American Political Studies Association.
• Granger, R., Charlton, M., Redefining city governance: towards rapid-response open planning. Town Planning Review 91, 1–7.
• Charlton, M., 2020. Addressing a Changing World: Climate Change, Refugees, Human Rights, and You, in: The Global Politics of Human Rights: Bringing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) into the 21st Century. Berlin Forum on Global Politics (BFoGP), Institute for Global Dialogue, and RECLAIM! Universal Human Rights Initiative.
• Charlton, M., 2020a. Universities will be essential to meeting the SDGs in 10 years. Times Higher Education. URL (accessed 4.24.20).
• Reeves, A., Frank, R., Charlton, M., 2018. Uniting the University around the UN SDGs - a UK case study. Global Association Master’s in Development Practice.

Political Engagement, Community Engagement, Climate change, Climate Justice, Young People's Politics

Policymaking, Sustainable Development

PhD in Policy and Public Administration

Policy Commission (Public Policymaking)

• Net Zero Football
• Project Atefa - Refugee Advocacy
• COP @ Æß²ÊÖ±²¥

• European Consortium of Political Research, Prague, 2023
• Academic Council on the United Nations System, Geneva, 2022

Civil Society Engagement in Climate Action - Yes

Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ to help create first Net Zero amateur football teams