2024 CECE Faculty Research Incubator Grant: Systems Lens to Increase Sustainable Procurement Success: Co-creating Insights to Bolster Employee Engagement.
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024 Faculty Research Incubator Grant!
This year’s winning project comes from a collaboration across Kogod School of Business, the College of Arts and Science, and the School of Public Affairs. Entitled “Systems Lens to Increase Sustainable Procurement Success: Co-creating Insights to Bolster Employee Engagement.” The project by Drs. Garima Sharma (KSB), Sarah Iverson (CAS), and Nicole Darnall (KSB, SPA) aims to answer the question: How can organizations bolster their employee engagement to increase their sustainable procurement success? The team will work closely with the AU Sustainability Office to examine how the university can increase employee engagement and in sustainable procurement across the university. By the end of the project, the team hopes to create a systems maps, share the systems map and related insights in a workshop with relevant community members, and write a report for the Office of Sustainability.
About the Faculty Research Incubator Program: Last year, CECE inaugurated this program, which is designed to launch exciting, interdisciplinary work on the environment that is conducted by faculty teams from programs across the AU campus. Teams receive funding to buy out courses or support summer salary. By the end of the academic year, teams are expected to have built out their projects, piloted the protocols, and submitted funding proposals for external funding.
