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On Thursday 12 September at noon (UK time), Vertigo Ventures will run a webinar for our VV-Impact Tracker clients based in the UK on “Using VV-Impact Reviewer for Internal Impact Review Cycles”. This webinar will be a practical session around VV-Impact Reviewer. VV-IR aims to greatly reduce the administrative burden of curating feedback on a […]

On 28nd August at 1pm AEST, Vertigo Ventures will run a webinar for Australian VV-Impact Tracker clients on “Structuring Compelling Impact Case Studies using the VV-IT Storyboard Function”. This webinar will be a practical session around VV-Impact Tracker’s ‘storyboard’ function which can be hugely beneficial to researchers for optimal planning and structuring of their impact […]

On 22nd August at 1pm HK time, Vertigo Ventures will run a webinar for Hong Kong-based academics and research office staff who are involved with developing Impact Case Studies for the upcoming RAE 2020 submission. During this webinar, Dr. Mary Ho will take participants through the RAE 2020 Impact Case Study guidelines. She will focus on […]

The THE University Impact Rankings look at universities’ impact on society, based on 11 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Vertigo Ventures’ CEO Laura Tucker will one of the Key-Note Speakers at the upcoming Sustainability Science Days 2019 conference in Helsinki, 9-10 May.

Times Higher Education is set to launch the world’s first university impact ranking. The initiative – the first global attempt to document evidence of higher education impact – is designed to capture unique new insights on universities’ work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Universities contribute a huge amount to society, and this data can offer a new perspective on how they’re addressing some of the most pressing global issues. This work has never been fully explored in the past, and has never been recognised in global rankings. The need and desire for clear, new metrics on impact is strong, and while this is a highly challenging area of data collection, it’s also an important and necessary step forward.

In addition to working on the THE University Impact Rankings 2019, over the last few months, the VV team analysed THE World University Rankings 2019 top 100 higher education institutions (HEIs) in terms of their operational footprint as well as the sustainability impact of their teaching and research. Taking the 17 SDGs as a benchmark, our report, titled Insights into the Global Top 100 HEIs Practices in Achieving the UN SDGs, analysed publicly available data from the 100 institutions covering how they manage a variety of sustainability issues such as, policies in alignment with SDGs, governance, and curriculum development in alignment with SDGs.

We are excited to share with you that we will be officially releasing two new products – the stand alone VV-Impact Reviewer software and the first set of e-learning courses – this week.

We are excited to formalise a project we have been working on for several months now! We see this as the next step towards improving all aspects of the business and achieving our company vision. While we will be rolling out the new brand slowly over the next few months (across our website, software etc.), we wanted to share with you an outline of our thinking, and the new VV logo.

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