Student
Voices
For
sUSTAINABILITY
We are pleased to invite submissions to the SDGs@UofT 2026 Student Publication, titled Student Voices for Sustainability. Each issue highlights students’ work related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on interdisciplinary, justice-focused and student-driven perspectives on global and local sustainability challenges.
This call is open to submissions engaging any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Contributors are welcome to focus on a single SDG in depth or explore intersections across multiple goals. We recognize that meaningful work is often grounded in a specific area of study or lived experience, and this publication aims to create space for both focused contributions and interdisciplinary dialogue where it naturally emerges.
Theme Overview:
Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs represent a shared global framework for advancing equity, sustainability, and collective well-being. From poverty eradication and gender equality to climate action, sustainable cities, health, peace, and partnerships, the goals reflect interconnected dimensions of development.
For this series, contributors may center any SDG(s) relevant to their work, research, community engagement, or lived experience. Whether your submission examines policy, practice, theory, creativity, or community initiatives, your perspective is welcome.
Types of Submissions Accepted
We welcome a wide range of contributions, including:
- Short commentaries or reflections (200–400 words)
- Course-related insights
- Policy or research briefs
- Visuals or infographics
- Data walk-throughs
- Creative work (art, photography, poetry, digital media)
- Mini think-pieces or student op-eds
Submissions from all disciplines are encouraged. Formal academic writing is not required; clarity, creativity, and thoughtful engagement with one or more SDGs are valued.
Creative Directions & Idea Starters
These are not requirements, but prompts to spark imagination and critical reflection. Your interpretation can be literal, abstract, symbolic, personal, or experimental.
- What systems, inequalities, or environmental impacts are often unseen? Can you make them visible through your work (e.g., data translated into form, hidden labour, emotional burdens, extractive histories)?
- Who embodies sustainable futures in your community? Whose care work, resistance, or leadership often goes unrecognized?
- Imagine a future shaped by meaningful progress toward an SDG. What does it look like? Sound like? Feel like? Alternatively, what happens if progress stalls?
- How are sustainability challenges experienced in the body, through heat, displacement, food insecurity, stress, migration, illness, resilience?
- How do colonial histories, extraction, and land relations shape current sustainability issues? What would repair or reciprocity look like?
- What does collective care look like in action? How are communities already practicing sustainable futures?
- Reimagine campus or city spaces as sustainable, accessible, just environments. What would need to change? What already exists?
Submissions from all disciplines are encouraged. Formal academic writing is not required; clarity, creativity, and thoughtful engagement with one or more SDGs are valued.
Submission Details
- Deadline: Rolling basis
- Format: Google Doc, PDF, or high-resolution image
- Submit through the link provided below
We look forward to showcasing diverse student perspectives that critically and creatively engage with the Sustainable Development Goals. Browse the digital archives of student voices here.