Tagged: Policy makers
ACCESS’s Steve Hinchliffe wins ERC Advanced Grant for biosecurity project
ACCESS Co-Investigator, Professor Steve Hinchliffe (University of Exeter) has recently been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant for the BIOSSCI (Biosocial Security: Social Science Transformations of Biosecurity) project. BIOSSCI will work with farmers and policymakers in Bangladesh, South Africa and the UK to revolutionise biosecurity (the management of biological threats to humans, animals and […]
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Public Engagement on Grid Infrastructure: Roundtable Summary Note published this week
ACCESS Director Patrick Devine-Wright (University of Exeter) was one of five social science experts invited to attend a roundtable discussion on Public Engagement with Grid Transformation in December 2024. Also invited were Catherine Queen (University of Liverpool), Melanie Rohse (Angela Ruskin University), Matthew Cotton (Teeside University), and Jason Chilvers (University of East Anglia). The summary note from that roundtable was published […]
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Why Knowledge Exchange is the Missing Link for Impact in the Ecology Sector
Melissa Marselle, Sarah Golding and Valentine Seymour ran a knowledge exchange workshop at last year’s British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2024, on behalf of ACCESS, entitled: Breaking Boundaries: Why Knowledge Exchange is the Missing Link for Impact in the Ecology Sector They have subsequently developed this workshop into a recent blog on […]
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Working at the intersection of academia and policy – Dr Harry Marshall & Dr George Warren
As an ACCESS Knowledge Exchange Fellow, I contributed to the design, execution, and analysis of a survey and interviews on interdisciplinary working and the benefits of environmental social science, as well as supporting key project outputs like the annotated bibliography, literature review, and the Environmental Social Science kNowledge Exchange Map of Opportunities (ESS NEMO). Being […]
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How can Environmental Social Scientists have more impact on policymaking?
The maps were co-produced by 32 environmental social scientists including the core team of George Warren, Harry Marshall, and Birgitta Gatersleben. ESS NEMO is specifically designed to support knowledge creators, brokers, policy makers and practitioners engaging with Environmental Social Science in academia, civil society, commercial entities, political organisations, intergovernmental organisations, the UK Government, devolved administrations, […]
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Seminar: Applying the Behaviour Change Wheel to Biodiversity Policy
To enable transformative change, effective human behaviour in support of nature conservation is urgently required. Dr Melissa Marselle at the University of Surrey explains how the Behaviour Change Wheel can help us understand how current policies and interventions can be more effective. This 25 minute presentation is ideal for anyone wanting to write effective policies. […]
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