View the recording of How to use the Environmental Social Science kNowledge Exchange Map of Opportunities

Published on 6 November 2024


Recorded on Thursday 17 October

Dr George Warren (ACCESS Knowledge Exchange Fellow) from the University of Surrey introduced ESS NEMO and outlined ways in which they could be helpful. George and Dr Harry Marshall presented an interactive example of how ESS NEMO can be used.

This webinar focused on presenting the Environmental Social Science kNowledge Exchange Map of Opportunities (ESS NEMO) – a group of resources including systems maps that show groups, organisations and individuals that could be engaged for research, development and innovation, designed specifically with environmental social scientists from a broad range of sectors in mind.

 

Speakers

Dr George Warren, Knowledge Exchange ACCESS Fellow & Sustainability Fellow for the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Surrey.

George’s passion lies in the application of findings from environmental psychology and Energy-Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research into UK policy, especially aiming to address the climate crisis. His research is primarily focused on issues associated with risk perceptions and other individual or socio-demographic factors which shape pro-environmental behaviours. He has previously undertaken research on COVID-19 risk perceptions, communications and risk management strategies, evaluated domestic energy advice schemes, and investigated the motivators and barriers to domestic energy saving in England for his PhD thesis. George currently works as a Knowledge Exchange Fellow for ACCESS and a Sustainability Fellow with the Institute for Sustainability, based at the University of Surrey.

Dr Harry Marshall, Knowledge Exchange ACCESS Fellow at Forest Research.

Harry is a multi-disciplinary social researcher with experience using social and behavioural science approaches to understand the intersection between wildlife & biodiversity conservation and human behaviour, perceptions and attitudes. Broadly he enjoys working on anything that supports the development of socially-just solutions to the complex social and environmental problems facing treescapes and wider environments both nationally and internationally. Current topic areas of focus include but are not limited to evidence-led stakeholder engagement, evaluations of policy interventions and taking a One Health approach to forest management.

Professor Nigel Gilbert, Distinguished Chair in Computational Social Science at the University of Surrey. He is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN), and Director of the University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.

Nigel’s main research interests are processual theories of social phenomena; the development of computational sociology and the methodology of computer simulation, especially agent-based modelling; and the development, appraisal and evaluation of public policies. He is the author or editor of several textbooks on sociological methods of research and statistics and was the founding editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation as well as helping to establish the innovative online journal, Sociological Research Online.