Ben Hunt - The English Premier League and the Sustainable Development Goals

In a first for the Meliora podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton, we are discussing an Undergraduate Individual Research Project with the impressive Ben Hunt who is studying BA Geography.  Ben is assessing the sustainability work of some of the most famous sporting organisations in the world, the twenty football clubs that make up the English Premier League.  The importance of football to so many people cannot be overstated, so the work clubs conduct in the sphere of sustainability can be incredibly impactful.  Ben explains how he used the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a framework to evaluate the local and global sustainability work of the Premier League clubs, how he developed his own scoring methodology, and gives the results of an SDG football league table in time-honoured reverse countdown style.  Ben then goes into greater depth for a quarter of the league clubs looking at the top, bottom and middle of the SDG table.This episode marks an increase in the input of our students to the podcast as we move through the academic year.  Our students produce such fantastic sustainability work that it would be terrible not to share it with you!Guest: Ben Hunt, BA Geography Year 3 studentHost: Prof Simon Kemp, Deputy Director Sustainability & Resilience InstituteEditor: Sophie Green, BSc Geography Year 3 studentEngage with us on instagram / X: @meliorapodcast