Systemic Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability (SERS)
We partner with academic institutions worldwide to address global systemic problems through education and research. This forms our SERS International Network.
A global network
The SERS International Network facilitates partnerships that connect academic groups and institutions across continents, to develop education, research, and engagement in Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability (ERS).
We operate in accordance with principles of open consultation, participation, reciprocity, responsible ownership, and support for diversity of ideas.
We stimulate partnerships in education and research collaboration, as well as staff and student mentoring.
Our Network facilitates international learning experiences for our Members’ students, through intra- and extra-curricular activities.
To achieve these objectives, we also engage with other international networks, industry bodies, community organisations, professional and government agencies.
Network Members collaborate to deliver invited keynote presentations and other ERS research and education content as part of high-profile global events in the field.
Students from Network Member institutions seek to develop the best solution to a business or education-related case study within an allocated time frame. Cross-institutional teams assess a real-world situation facing a partner industry organisation, analyse available information, craft a solution, and defend their recommendations to competition judges.
Academic staff at Network Member institutions share their SERS expertise, provide feedback on Network colleagues’ work-in-progress, and facilitate research mentoring of junior researchers and postgraduate research students.
Sustainability in Fast Fashion: What is the role of the consumer?
Our panellist discussion explored the devastating impact the Fast Fashion industry has on our environment, the alternatives available and the role we as consumers play in limiting those impacts.
Transitioning to sustainable energy: what is the role of corporations? An academic and corporate practitioner discussion
The focus of this panel discussion was on the global transition to more sustainable energy resources and the role that corporations play in this transition.
NGO activism towards social sustainability in restrictive institutional contexts
Prof Natalia Yakovleva, Professor of Strategy at KEDGE Business School, France, delivered this virtual guest lecture.
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The role of banks in tackling climate change: A practitioner-scholar perspective
Wendy Dobson, Head of Group Corporate Citizenship at Standard Bank Group (South Africa), joined us for an online talk.
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