Dr Mark Charlton is Associate Director of Sustainable Development Goal Impact and Net Zero Research Theme Director. Mark also teaches public policy in the department of Politics. Since 2014, Mark has worked closely with the United Nations (UN) on a number of campaigns that engage university staff and students in global issues. Since 2016 Mark has led the United Nations Academic Impact Global hub for Sustainable Development Goal 16, based at DMU, working across the university to develop research and teaching outputs that seek to impact and promote indicators of the SDGs.