Tagged: "Citizen Science"

Research team Michelle Twena (Project Lead) - National Trust David Bavin - National Trust Clare Bissell - National Trust Matthew Heard - National Trust Sarah Crowley - University of Exeter Aims ExCASES Missions provide short, intense periods of focus towards issues that have been communicated as priorities for RENEW partner organisations and external stakeholders. The ExCASES [...]

Research team David Bavin (Project Lead)  - National Trust Sarah Crowley - University of Exeter Matthew Heard - National Trust Michelle Twena - National Trust Clare Bissell - National Trust Theme ExCASES Missions provide short, intense periods of focus towards issues communicated as priorities for RENEW partner organisations and external stakeholders. The ExCASES team work collaboratively [...]

Research team Clare Bissell (Project Lead) - National Trust Michelle Twena -National Trust David Bavin - National Trust Matthew Heard - National Trust Sarah Crowley - University of Exeter Collaborators All of RENEW’s 30+ partners are being invited to participate in this exciting mission. Aims  ExCASES missions provide short, intense periods of focus towards issues that [...]

Some post-campaign reflections As you’ve probably guessed, given that I’m writing this blog rather than learning my way around the Palace of Westminster, I was unsuccessful – this time, anyway! I’m still processing the experience, but here are a few immediate reflections on the extent to which the nature crisis featured in the campaign. DISCLAIMER: [...]

Research team . Emma Squire - University of Exeter Lewis Elliot - University of Exeter Rebecca Lovell - University of Exeter Kevin J Gaston - University of Exeter . Partners . Aims Citizen science plays an important role in the provision of biodiversity data in the UK. However, there are certain limitations on the quantity [...]

Integrating health, wellbeing, nature and sustainability (HWNS) outcomes into strategic place-making: co-designing a toolkit to support complex decision-making at a local level . Oliver James - University of Exeter  Jamie McCauley - University of Exeter  Jemma Sharman - Natural England Tim Sunderland - Natural England  Jen Scott - Natural England   Partners   Overview The toolkit is [...]

Research team --- David Baker - University of Exeter Ilya Maclean - University of Exeter Daveron Smith - University of Exeter Alex Inman - University of Exeter | LEEP Institute  Dr Emma Gardner - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Partners Aims To understand key opportunities for and barriers to nature-friendly farming To collect baseline [...]

How we develop mission proposals to ensure they are interdisciplinary, agile and codesigned… We wanted to give a flavour of what an ExCASES participatory workshop looks like and demonstrate practically how we develop mission proposals to ensure they are interdisciplinary, agile and codesigned. It was also a rare opportunity to collect mission ideas and inputs […]

Academics, professionals, and participants gather to build ideas, interventions, and solutions to biodiversity challenges In what is perhaps becoming a RENEW Parliament tradition, PhD student and poet, Caleb Parkin, closed proceedings with a poem. Or, maybe, the poem was an opening. Playfully weaving the many voices that we heard over the course of the Parliament, […]

Above: ExCASES deer mission planning, National Trust Heelis. Implementing the first mission The first mission we are currently delivering revolves around deer management. The increase and expansion of deer populations in the UK are, in places, having a significantly detrimental impact on biodiversity and deer welfare, with associated socio-economic costs for people. The spread and […]

Perspectives on Personalised Ecologies Each of us has a personalised ecology – a set of direct interactions with the natural world that change through the day, the week, the season, and across our lifetimes. This event pulled together a diverse set of talks that looked at personalised ecology from a range of perspectives, including philosophical [...]

Researchers at the University of Exeter and the National Trust are joining forces to improve the UK’s biodiversity and manage precious landscapes. In the face of rapid environmental change and declining biodiversity, the two organisations are driving closer collaboration between their research teams to help transform the ways that landscapes are managed and encourage people [...]