Bristol University Press (BUP), the mission-driven, not-for-profit academic publisher, released its Impact Report, showcasing the Press’s role in advancing global knowledge and public policy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report highlights a year of transformative publishing, widespread open access engagement and growing international influence.
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Voluntary 5k for employee participation, to respond to book bans and benefiting the Freedom To Read Foundation, a nonprofit legal and educational organization devised to protect and defend the First Amendment to the US Constitution and to support the rights of both libraries and citizens to access information. Within 12 hours of registration opening Monday (March 24, 2025), Penguin Random House and Sourcebooks employees had raised more than $10,000 for the Freedom To Read Foundation.
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The articles published in “English Studies at NBU” often address themes such as colonial oppression, memory, trauma, and the immigrant experience, critiques of corruption and poor leadership in Africa, marginalized histories and fostering cross-cultural understanding highlighting the narratives of underrepresented groups – central to the SDGs. These works contribute to understanding and solving global challenges.
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This collection highlights research aligned to key targets of SDG 16 to support peace, justice and strong institutions. In the words of the UN, ‘Goal 16 is about promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. People everywhere should be free of fear from all forms of violence and feel safe as they go about their lives whatever their ethnicity, faith or sexual orientation.’
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Collins staff in Glasgow volunteered at charity Refuweegee, a News Corp Giving recipient, to help set up the new Refuweegee shop where refugees new to the city can access clothing, household items, entertainment items, food, and toiletries, all free of charge
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In the UK, HarperCollins Children’s Books collaborated with the International Rescue Committee to bring a Christmas surprise to children at St. Mary’s Ukrainian School. Bestselling children’s books were translated into Ukrainian and gifted to families rebuilding their lives in the UK.
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With the aim of fostering Responsible Governance and Inclusive Peace, Globethics develops one of its main Series/book collections with publications on the topic. One of its last instances has been the trilogy “Global Survey on Business Ethics”, edited by Dr. Bryan Robinson and Dr. Georges Enderle. Thit trilogy is the result of a sharp academic work on business good practice and responsible leadership from a multifaceted and international perspective.
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This free access collection of research articles and book chapters encourages you to ask questions, broaden understanding with new perspectives, and engage with social equity, providing historical and geographic context, as well as contemporary insights. Whether you are a researcher, instructor, student, policymaker, or interested reader, Wiley has provided content across nine broad research categories relating to equity, to inform your further research and activism.
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SDG16 promotes a world that ensures equal access to justice for all by developing transparent and inclusive institutions of global governance and protecting fundamental freedoms. Research plays a key role in supporting the development of public policy and in promoting a better way forward. For this hub, Springer Nature brings together cutting-edge research on law, politics, criminology, public policy and more, looking to a future that builds peaceful, just and strong societies and institutions.
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Interconnected systems need to take account of different regional and local contexts and the need for equitable solutions. That’s why SDG17 is a focus for Springer Nature; working in partnership with others to accelerate delivery of the goals by connecting researchers, policymakers and practitioners through targeted events and via new content formats. This hubs showcases our participation in collaborative networks, tool kits for researchers to track the societal impact of their work and more.
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The Parliamentary Book Club is an initiative whereby Australians get to nominate a book they think their leaders must read. Launched in 2019, it invites all parliamentarians to read the selected book, and then participate in a meeting at Parliament House to join the author in a discussion of the book’s main themes. The intention is that the books will lay the foundation for discussion around aspects of Australian life, which could inform and inspire new ways of thinking.
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In a democracy, the rights of authors and publishers to create and distribute their works in complete freedom is critical. The IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee challenges violations and drives dialogue around issues related to the freedom to publish. The IPA also awards the prestigious Prix Voltaire to recognise exemplary courage in upholding the freedom to publish. Nominees have usually published controversial works amid pressure, threats, intimidation and harassment.
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