One of the key aims of ACCESS is to bring diverse individuals and organisations together to support connections and spark new conversations in environmental social science. Our Annual Assembly plays a key role in this relationship building. Every June, we bring together some 80-plus environmental social scientists from across academia, the public sector and […]
Steve: Stewart, can you tell us why people are so concerned about air travel? Stewart: From a climate perspective, the way we travel has a significant impact. For example, the well-known travel website seat61 estimates that travelling by train rather than flying can reduce the carbon impact of travel by 80-90%. The figures can be […]
The ACCESS Guiding Principles team (Stewart Barr, Kate Burningham, Sarah Golding, Steve Guilbert and Sarah Hartley) compiled and published our Guiding Principles in March 2023. We’ve recently developed our own ACCESS Travel Guidance document as an extension to these. In this blog, we outline the context for developing this guidance. Our Guiding Principles focus […]
We will be looking to implement some of the recommendations in Round 2. We hope these insights will be useful to other organisations administering funds and also to future Flexible funds applicants. For more information please contact us. Flex Fund Evaluation report Reflections on setting up a Flex Fund
Early in the planning for the Assembly, we decided we wanted to welcome in-person and online visitors. It was important for us to: Invite people from various disciplines and champion the benefits of collaboration and co-production. Be inclusive and offer equally enriching experiences and networking opportunities to those in the room and those sitting at […]
The summer school kicked off with an interesting insight into the ACCESS project from the project directors, Patrick Devine-Wright and Birgitta Gatersleben. They outlined how we as environmental social scientists can have a valuable impact on research, training and policy. As a new Knowledge Exchange Fellow on the ACCESS Project, it was inspiring to see […]
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