Uncovering the depths: Educating with the SDGs in Special Collections & Archives

Elaine Harrington; Emma Horgan; John Rooney

Uncovering the depths: Educating with the SDGs in Special Collections & Archives

Office of the Vice President for Learning and Teaching

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

Abstract

Special Collections & Archives acknowledge that multiple perspectives are required to solve ‘wicked’ problems. Therefore, this poster will address ongoing work with the SDGS intersecting with Special Collections & Archives. This will include collection-focused activities for teaching & learning with academics and departments, and outreach activities which include student participation. The poster will reference UCC’s SDG toolkit and UN's SDGs, and will address SDG targets including SDGs 4, 14, 15 amongst others. This poster demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Special Collections & Archives' collections to society, and how the collections and expertise of the staff can be used for inter/trans-disciplinarity research. The poster relates to student success, graduate attributes, inter/ transdisciplinary learning and teaching where all can be considered the ‘student’.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2025
Event	CIRTL Learning and Teaching Showcase - Cork, Ireland Duration: 5 Dec 2023 → 5 Dec 2023

Conference

Conference	CIRTL Learning and Teaching Showcase
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Cork
Period	5/12/23 → 5/12/23

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 14 Life Below Water
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

SDG14
SDG15
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
special collections
natural history
Environmental awareness

Access to Document

https://hdl.handle.net/10468/15263

2 Exhibition
1 Digital, audio or visual outputs

Life Below Water
Harrington, E., Dec 2024
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital, audio or visual outputs
Our Evolving Relationship with Life Below Water
Harrington, E., Sept 2023
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Life on Land: Trees and Birds from the 17th to 21st Centuries
Harrington, E., Jan 2022
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

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Uncovering the depths: Educating with the SDGs in Special Collections & Archives

Abstract

Conference

UN SDGs

Keywords

Access to Document

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Research output

Life Below Water

Our Evolving Relationship with Life Below Water

Life on Land: Trees and Birds from the 17th to 21st Centuries

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