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Our Pathway to Impact
Mark Reed
Plan
• The impact
• Video
• The pathway
1 The Impact
• £1M RELU/LWEC & ESRC funded project helping people anticipate and adapt to future change across UK uplands since 2005
• Almost £1M co-funding from research users
• Interdisciplinary team of 25 people from 5 Universities & 2 NGOs
• Findings featured prominently in evidence gathering initiatives used to inform policy:
– National Ecosystem Assessment
– EFRA Inquiry on Farming in the Uplands
– CRC’s Inquiry on the Future of England’s Uplands
– IUCN Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands
– Government Office for Science’s Foresight Land Use Futures project
The Impact
The Impact
• Contributed to policy processes: – Inputting evidence to a review, best practice
guidelines and Action Plan re: Payment for Ecosystem Services as part of DEFRA’s Natural Environment White Paper
– Guiding DEFRA to develop a UK Peatland Carbon Code to facilitate private investment in peatland restoration
• Used by water companies to justify using land management to reduce water treatment costs
• Analysing upland/catchment management case studies across the UK, comparing RELU to other RCUK and NGO/business projects
• Workshops with KE academics/professionals
• Best practice principles
• LWEC’s Knowledge Exchange Guidelines
• RCUK Impact Toolkit?
2 A short film
2 Our pathway
Knowledge exchange with stakeholders:
• Co-generation of knowledge with small but representative groups of highly connected, influential stakeholders, selected via Social Network Analysis
• You Tube and DVDs – as requested by stakeholders concerned about the abstract nature of the GIS outputs we’d suggested
• Articles in professional journals/magazines
• Newsletters
• Project websites
• Policy briefs
• Presentations to policy makers, policy advisors and practitioner groups
• DEFRA placement
• Consultancy contracts
Public engagement:
• Twitter (now over 1600 followers) www.twitter.com/reluuplands
• Interactive website www.ouruplands.co.uk
• Schools resources (Summer 2012)
Arts:
• Song and music video by award-winning photography collective
• Jazz composition by Huw Warren
• Fairytale told by storyteller and made into book
• Conceptual art by Dalziel & Scullion (hunting bag)
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