Tagged: building capacity

If you’re interested in bringing together people from diverse sectors to work, learn and grow as emerging leaders, watch our new video about the ACCESS Leadership College. It features Leadership College Director, Professor Saffron O’Neill (University of Exeter) and our Leadership College Fellows, and follows our final College retreat in South Devon in April 2026. […]

We brought together around 160 environmental social scientists (and guests from outside ESS), from across academia, policy and the third sector for two days of thinking, connecting and network building. This year’s Assembly had a stronger emphasis on international perspectives and intersectionality. We sought to champion and explore what social science can look like across […]

    Richard Bridge, Head of Monitoring and Evaluation on Defra’s Nature for Climate Tree Programme describes the conversations, field trips and reflections that this year’s retreat brought: The last few days have been memorable. The final year of the ACCESS Leadership College, with an extra topping of work on Tuesday and Wednesday with a […]

Writing can be a gloriously fun, creative and joyful activity. It can also be challenging, frustrating and daunting.   Like many other professional writers, academics can struggle to find the time for regular engagement with the writing process. And it is a process.   Writing a journal article, stakeholder report, policy summary (or blog for your project […]

I gave a seminar a few weeks ago at the invitation of Prof. Tim Mays, a hydrogen engineer from the University of Bath. The audience was public and varied, with a large smattering of natural science students. Putting my slides together, I asked myself, what have I, as a social scientist interested in sustainable energy […]