Growing the social sciences within environmental organisations

Developing across-organisation social science resources for non-social scientists within environmental organisations

The Project

This project is a collaboration between multiple social science teams/leads within environmental organisations. Together we aim to better equip our organisations in using social science to address environmental challenges.

We aim to grow:

1. Understanding of the social sciences and their value in addressing environmental challenges
2. Best practice in the use of social science methods
3. Effective commissioning of social science research

Methodology

We will do this by

1. Scoping the need, both with social science teams/leads within environmental organisations, and with their non-social science colleagues
2. Bringing together exiting resources in one place that can begin to address these needs
3. Piloting and refining the resources with a group of users
4. Developing a forward plan to grow this package of support beyond the life of this grant

Guiding Principles

Knowledge Co-production is at the core of this project. The project will be delivered collaboratively and produce outputs that aim to be a shared resource, increasing efficiency and collaboration.