Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Tracy Smith-Carrier receives Canada Research Chair funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to conduct research that advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This program of research advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by furthering our understanding of the design and implementation of the targets and indicators of the SDGs, and by assessing their associated outcomes and impacts. The goals are to conduct, utilizing Community-based Participatory Action Research, mixed methods research that creates knowledge on the SDGs locally, nationally, and globally. The local research will explore the SDGs relevancy and implementation progress at the community level, and the national and global research seeks to identify and promote evidence-informed policy solutions that might best realize the SDGs in diverse regional, state, and international contexts.