Nottingham Business School hosts Global Responsibility Week 2023 with academics from across the globe
Global Responsibility Week is organised each year to facilitate integration between international academic colleagues and their knowledge with our current postgraduate community.
By Tommy Durham | Published on 12 May 2023
Categories: Business; Nottingham Business School;
Global Responsibility Week is a gathering of colleagues from our partner institutions around the world, who present to staff and students on a variety of topics.
The annual event is part of Nottingham Business School's commitment to meaningful internationalisation, and introduces our staff and students to some of our international partners, as well as giving our guests the chance to visit the Business School and explore potential link-ups.
The theme for this year's event was 'Transitioning to Net Zero' whereby business topics such a supply chains, finance and leadership were explored within the context of sustainability. The week also provided an excellent opportunity for networking and collaboration as well as discovering future opportunities for research and study abroad.
Faith, pictured front row third from the left with her students
Sustainable Supply Chains seminar by Faith Mashele
Faith Mashele from the Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa, joined the Global Responsibility Week to discuss the impact of supply chains for sustainable organisations.
Faith had this to say: "it is such a privilege to be able to share in this week, sustainability is not just a buzz word, I believe it is about us becoming change agents and contributing to our world."
Ernest, pictured far left with his students
Sustainable Finance seminar by Ernest Biktimirov
Also in attendance was Ernest Biktimirov, a Professor of Finance at Brock University in Niagara, Canada. His expertise include international finance, corporate finance and methodology in finance.
On his experience teaching at the event Ernest said: "it's my great pleasure to participate in Global Responsibility Week, I think its a great event, well organised and a good opportunity to meet other faculty members. I truly enjoyed interacting with the students, because I conduct research into sustainability and sustainable finance but don't teach it at my university - so it's my first opportunity to teach it to students, as such, I find it very rewarding."
Lucia, pictured front centre with the other 'flying faculty'
Mindful Leadership seminar by Lucia Barros Gurney
Lucia is a Teacher at ESPM in Sao Paulo, Brazil and has been participating in Global Responsibility Week for several years.
Commenting on Global Responsibility Week, Lucia had this to say: "I think it is a wonderful event as it brings professors from all over the world to discuss what is the biggest challenge for the century which is sustainability. It's great to have students from all over the world, interested in building the required skills for leadership in a world that is facing very important challenges and for which we do not have easy answers."
In terms of the students in attendance, Lucia remarked that "it was good to see them really engage and absorb the content and come to me after the class wanting to carry on the conversation. Commenting on her time in Nottingham Lucia said "I like the city a lot, it is a pleasant place to go for a walk and has lots of nice restaurants."
For this year's Global Responsibility week we invited 25 visiting Professors from our partner schools from all over the world to deliver sessions for our postgraduate students on the theme of net zero. The week also provided an excellent opportunity for networking and collaboration as well as discovering future opportunities for research and study abroad. We look forward to hosting another successful event in 2024.
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About Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Business School (NBS) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a leader in experiential learning and personalisation of business, management and economics education and research, combining academic excellence with positive impact on people, business and society. NBS has an unrivalled level of engagement with business, public and voluntary organisations. With more than 8,500 students, NBS is also one of UK’s largest business schools.
NBS is Quadruple+ Accredited by EQUIS, AACSB, EFMD BA for International Business, which are globally recognised hallmarks of excellence and quality for business education. NBS is also accredited by Small Business Charter, providing support and development for SMEs. The school is also a PRME Champion and held up as an exemplar and beacon by the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME).
About Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2021 for cultural heritage science research. It is the second time that NTU has been bestowed the honour of receiving a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its research, the first being in 2015 for leading-edge research on the safety and security of global citizens.
The Research Excellence Framework (2021) classed 83% of NTU’s research activity as either world-leading or internationally excellent. 86% of NTU’s research impact was assessed to be either world-leading or internationally excellent.
NTU was awarded The Times and The Sunday Times Modern University of the Year 2023 and ranked University of the Year in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023. It was awarded Outstanding Support for Students 2020 (Times Higher Education Awards), University of the Year 2019 (Guardian University Awards, UK Social Mobility Awards), Modern University of the Year 2018 (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide) and University of the Year 2017 (Times Higher Education Awards).
NTU is the 5th largest UK institution by student numbers, with approximately 40,000 students and more than 4,400 staff located across five campuses. It has an international student population of 7,000 and an NTU community representing over 160 countries.
Since 2000, NTU has invested £570 million in tools, technology, buildings and facilities.
NTU is in the UK’s top 10 for number of applications and ranked first for accepted offers (2021 UCAS UG acceptance data). It is also among the UK’s top five recruiters of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and was the first UK university to sign the Social Mobility Pledge.
NTU is ranked the second most sustainable university in the world in the 2022 UI Green Metric University World Rankings (out of more than 900 participating universities).