Join DCU Business School and the International Institute of Digital Business (IIDB) for the fifteenth event of the SDG4B series; Life On Land.
This event will explore SDG 15 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which focuses on Protecting, restoring and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managing forests, combating desertification, and halting and reversing land degradation and halting biodiversity loss.
Date: Wednesday 24th of March
Time: 1PM-2PM
Where: Zoom Webinar
Tickets: This event is FREE, however those who wish to attend must register through Zoom prior to the event:
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Event Description
For this event, we will be joined by Madlen Sobkowiak outlined below, who will discuss drivers and current practices around business measurements and disclosures on biodiversity.
Madlen Sobkowiak
Currently, Madlen is a Research Fellow in Accounting at the Birmingham Business School, having just recently obtained her PhD in Social and Environmental Accounting at the same school. As part of her fellowship, Madlen is working on the Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS) initiative—an international science-business collaboration bringing together ten of the largest global seafood production companies to lead a global transformation towards sustainable seafood production practices and a healthy ocean.
Besides the fellowship position, Madlen’s research is focused around a broad range of social and environmental accounting topics, particularly around biodiversity accounting and sustainability performance measurement issues. Her PhD aimed to better understand the construction process of UK biodiversity indicators and their influence on organisational decision-making and action.
Her work has been presented at numerous prestigious national and international conferences and has been published in the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. Furthermore, her work has been awarded various prizes and scholarships, such as the Birmingham Business School Doctoral Scholarship, the Universitas 21 Research Exchange Scholarship and various best paper/presentation awards at conferences.
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This event is the fifteenth week of a 17-part series taking place every Wednesday until the 7th of April 2021. Click here for more information about the SDG4B series.
