Travel represents a major component of the carbon impact of universities through travel associated with research, student recruitment, international student travel and field courses. Many universities have declared environment and climate emergencies and have values-statements that reference ecological care. Yet shifting practices, systems and policies is challenging, as flying has become so entwined with research […]
Clare Twigger-Ross, who works as a consultant social researcher at Eunomia, highlighted two challenges for social scientists in consultancy roles: “When working in research as a consultant, we aim to work collaboratively with our clients as far as possible. However, a key area of knowledge that can be underestimated is that of the institutional, governance […]
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 […]
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