SDG Impact Fund awarded to Governing Body Fellows

Governing Body Fellows Professor Rachel Murphy and Professor Leigh Payne have been awarded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding through the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Impact Fund. This Fund is awarded to projects from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University that support SDG-focused knowledge exchange activities with non-academic partners in Oxford, the wider UK and internationally.

The 17 SDGs offer a common language through which academic communities and other stakeholders can come together to deliver joint solutions to some of our greatest global challenges. Read more about the UN SDGs here.

The projects are:

• Empowering Social Workers and Caregivers in China’s Small Cities, Towns and Villages to Support Children Who Are Living Without Their Parents. Rachel Murphy, School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, partnering with Guiyu Academy and Le Qun Social Work Service Centre
• Reducing Extremists’ Threats to Democracy in Latin America. Leigh Payne, School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, partnering with Chilean Human Rights Secretariat and National Human Rights Institute, Chile