Summary of Strathclyde VIP for sustainable development (VIP4SD) programme
| Team name | Research objective | Students staff/student ratio | Primary SDG | Student majors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug discovery | To combine microbiology and image processing to develop new tools for drug discovery and better ways to produce antibiotics | 3/16 | SDG3 | Microbology Electronic and Electrical Engineering Computer and Electronics Science Electrical & Mechanical Engineering |
| Enterprise VIP | To embed business students as commercialization consultants in other research activities through VIP | 5/70 | SDG8 | Business |
| ROVER | To embed business students in a real-world, team-based engineering research project to design, build and test robots for the improvement of human causes | 2/15 | SDG9 | Design Manufacture and Engineering Management Electronic and Electrical Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Physics |
| STEM education | To develop STEM reasoning skills in areas of deprivation (SIMD – 40) through public engagement in schools and the local community | 2/14 | SDG4 | Education, Engineering |
| Sustainable energy for development | To challenge students to tackle sustainable development goal number 7 – universal energy access. Links with outreach programs delivering VIP research impact on the ground by delivering new energy solutions in the Gambia and India | 3/16 | SDG7 | Design Manufacture and Engineering Management Electronic and Electrical Engineering Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Business |
| TextLab | To conduct research and develop software tools for textual analysis that provide new and interesting analyses of Shakespeare’s works and enable us to find things that are not always visible to the naked eye | 4/28 | SDG4 | English Computer and Information Science |
| Water and sanitation (WASH) | To focus research across the University that can help with the United Nations statistics on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) The VIP team are actively involved with a wide selection of real-world problems that affect Malawi’s Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) | 8/57 | SDG6 | Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering Hydrogeology Electronic and Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Business Accounting Law |
| Team name | Research objective | Students | Primary SDG | Student majors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug discovery | To combine microbiology and image processing to develop new tools for drug discovery and better ways to produce antibiotics | 3/16 | SDG3 | Microbology |
| Enterprise VIP | To embed business students as commercialization consultants in other research activities through VIP | 5/70 | SDG8 | Business |
| ROVER | To embed business students in a real-world, team-based engineering research project to design, build and test robots for the improvement of human causes | 2/15 | SDG9 | Design Manufacture and Engineering Management |
| STEM education | To develop STEM reasoning skills in areas of deprivation (SIMD – 40) through public engagement in schools and the local community | 2/14 | SDG4 | Education, Engineering |
| Sustainable energy for development | To challenge students to tackle sustainable development goal number 7 – universal energy access. Links with outreach programs delivering VIP research impact on the ground by delivering new energy solutions in the Gambia and India | 3/16 | SDG7 | Design Manufacture and Engineering Management |
| TextLab | To conduct research and develop software tools for textual analysis that provide new and interesting analyses of Shakespeare’s works and enable us to find things that are not always visible to the naked eye | 4/28 | SDG4 | English |
| Water and sanitation (WASH) | To focus research across the University that can help with the United Nations statistics on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) | 8/57 | SDG6 | Civil Engineering |
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