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Football for Global Goals

In September 2015, during the 70th anniversary of its foundation, the United Nations passed an historic resolution, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is one of the most remarkable resolutions passed by the UN in its 75-year history, committing as it does all the member states of the United Nations - all countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership – to support the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the year 2030. 

In recent years, sport’s contribution to the SDGs has been increasingly in the spotlight. This ITN project built on the extensive work of Tom Woodhouse to collect information on which UK football clubs were working with an awareness of the SDGs. He then joined forces with the JGI through the IPTN, and developed Football for the Global Goals (FGG) Online Platform with support from JGI data scientist Leo Gorman. The project will chart the positive contribution that the 92 professional clubs in the English Premier League (EPL) and the English Football League (EFL) makes to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Tom Woodhouse has been a member of the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford since its formation in 1974, when he was appointed as research assistant to the first Professor, Adam Curle. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, and was appointed to a Personal Chair, the Adam Curle Chair in Conflict Resolution, in 1999. He was Academic Director of the Rotary International Programme in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Bradford (2008-2012), and a member of the Rotary International Steering group which formed the Rotary Short Course Programme in Peace Studies Chulalonkorn University in Bangkok. He taught on this Programme from its formation until 2021 and was a member of the Academic Committee supporting the Chula programme. He retired from full time work in October 2012 and is currently Emeritus Professor in Peace Studies and International Development. Tom coordinates and facilitates the Football4Community platform, a place to tell the amazing and inspirational stories about footballers and the role they have off the field of play

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