Step 4 - Act

Tools to adjust your research

Click through the headings below to bring up the relevant tools

The SEI SDG Synergies Tool¹ provides a structured participatory process which can be applied throughout the life cycle of your project to help you identify synergies and trade-offs between SDGs, and help you to maximise co-benefits.
The 17 SDGs are broken down into 169 target indicators²– can your research provide evidence to support to any of these?
The Doughnut Economics tools³provide a database of 170 research tools searchable by keyword themes.
Seven Principles for Resilience⁴ is a short clip explaining principles which can operationalised to underpin holistic approaches to environmental sustainability.
Horizon Europe Societal Readiness Thinking Tool⁵ helps you translate societal motivations into an integrated project design across four stages.
University of Edinburgh Ethics in Global Research toolkit⁶ helps you identify ethical challenges and provides proven ways to tackle them.

Ashden Co-Benefits Toolkit⁷ helps identify synergies between social, economic and environmental resilience and adaptation planning at community and regional level.
Verture Adaptation Scotland⁸ information and resources on adaptation planning needs in six typical Scottish places.
CIF Climate Finance Just Transition Planning Tool⁹. A structure for just transition identifying opportunities, strategy and suitable partnerships.

Institute for Development Studies Participatory Methods¹⁰ toolkits provide a large library of tried and tested tools for participatory research methods.
Climate Vulnerability Analysis¹¹ Toolkit provides participatory methods to identify and analyse vulnerability and risks by, age, gender etc in your research’s target community.
UNDP Gender and Climate Adaptation Toolkit¹² helps you identify, and tackle gender differentiated hardships relating to climate adaptation in research.
Intersectional Climate Justice Toolkit¹³elucidates how intersectional inequalities underpin climate break down and multiple tools to operationalise this insight in research.
Radical Interpretations of Disasters Research Manifesto¹⁴ is a theoretically informed agenda for respectful, effective research methods in disaster settings.
University of Edinburgh Gender Sensitive Research Toolkit¹⁵ enables ‘novice’ researchers to operationalise a gender sensitive approach including in STEMM.

UK Green Building Council System Enablers for a Circular Economy Toolkit¹⁶ A toolkit that examines the barriers to a circular economy, and presents eight key enablers to overcome them.
Engineers without Borders Global Responsibility Compass¹⁷ helps engineers identify sustainability related capacity building needs.

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and the Economy and Environment ¹⁸, is a tool to find partners in Social Sciences Humanities and Arts working on economic and environmental issues.

Shape-ID interdisciplinarity toolkit¹⁹ are tools and resources to maximise successful interdisciplinarity collaboration.

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