Task Forces
Task Forces
ACCESS Task Forces bring together world-leading social science expertise to focus on crucial and challenging policy areas.
Adaptation and Resilience Task Force
The Adaptation and Resilience Task Force focuses on enabling more effective deployment of social sciences by policy makers to enable successful adaptation and resilience, by, with, and for individuals and communities in the UK.
This Task Force is composed of academics and government social scientists with extensive expertise in adaptation across science and policy, led by Rory Walshe and Irene Lorenzoni. It runs from now until October 2026.
For more information about the focus and progress of the task force, and its team members, click below.
Nature Recovery Task Force
The Task Force is led by Michael Winter and runs between now and October 2026.
The team of 15 academic and government social scientists are looking at how the social sciences can be more effectively deployed to reconfigure land use and land management in the UK to deliver nature recovery.
Meet the team members and find out about the progress of the task force by clicking the button below.
Net Zero Task Force
The Task Force was led by Karen Bickerstaff. She assembled a team of ten social scientists, leading experts in environmental and climate change from geography, psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics and medicine. Together they reviewed a range of social science perspectives, analysed examples of government net zero plans and built understanding from case studies of societal change. The task force ran between April 2023 and March 2024.
Rapid Response Requests
Rapid Response Requests
This was a bespoke request service for Environmental and Climate Research and Analysis.
We have worked with a range of groups including Defra, BEIS/DESNZ, the Welsh Government, the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and Forest Research.
