ACCESS - Advancing Capacity for Climate  and Environment Social Science
ACCESS - Advancing Capacity for Climate  and Environment Social Science

Welcome to ACCESS

ACCESS is a funded programme of work providing leadership on the social science contribution to tackling and solving a range of climate and environmental problems.

We recognise that technology alone is not enough.

And we are working to share our understanding of how people, our societies and our systems need to change and adapt to create a healthier environment and meet our net zero goals.

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Unlocking the Power of Youth poster with illustrations of people with megaphones and placards
Re-imagining Conservation with People with colour. Ladies creating a textile - like a quilt - with images and words re-imagining Conservation with People of colour
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News

New year resolutions? Subscribe to our newsletter and join the ACCESS Expert Database

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Blog

Professor Karen Bickerstaff: A new look at Net Zero

Blog Blister packs of pills

Dr Sarah Golding: More interdisciplinary training for researchers is key to tackling environmental problems

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News Butterflies on wild flowers

How can integrating social sciences provide transformative solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. A Leverhulme Centre webinar.

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The ACCESS Expert Database

This is a searchable database of social scientists and experts. Useful for people looking for information or collaboration, in the fields of climate and environment.

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Guiding Principles

The work of ACCESS is underpinned by three Guiding Principles

  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Knowledge Co-production
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We see these areas as inextricably linked. Issues of equity and justice are at the heart of sustainability, and the inclusion of diverse perspectives is critical for delivering sustainable solutions.

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About

ABOUT US

  • The aims of the ACCESS project
  • Our Guiding Principles
  • Find out who is in our ACCESS network and how we are working together.

What is Environmental Social Science?

Interested in joining the ACCESS Network? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter

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Training

TRAINING

  • Webinars & Masterclasses
  • Placement schemes
  • Annual Assembly
  • Leadership College
  • Summer school
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Knowledge exchange

RESOURCES

  • What is Environmental Social Science and why is it important?
  • Event evaluations and reflections
  • How to run a Flex Fund
  • Task Force report
  • How to use knowledge exchange maps
  • Data Exchange – a database of UK environmental social science related datasets
  • Rapid Response Service.
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IMPACT

  • Task Forces
  • Rapid Response Requests
  • Flex Fund projects
  • Scoping funding areas for Economic & Social Research Council
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