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Infrastructure Report

In this report, we identify how we might help the public to tell us what they want from future infrastructure. Infrastructure systems are complex and contested, but also essential to wellbeing so we argue that the public has a right to express preferences about desirable infrastructure futures. In this report, we present the findings of workshops exploring new ways to talk about infrastructure, with the aim of providing recommendations for how the public and private sectors can more effectively elicit public perceptions.

Infrastructure Report

Evidence Week 2020

In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can all see how essential it is that decision makers are able to rapidly get to grips with all kinds of evidence, and be able to lead informed policy making in a complicated and quickly changing situation. That is why Sense about Science launched Evidence Week - to make sure that MPs have their hands on the best tools and information to hold government to account. As part of Evidence Week 2020 Katy Roelich discussed future proofing infrastructure decisions and explored how MPs can accommodate uncertainty when reviewing policy options designed to reach net zero emissions.

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University of Leeds Alumni event - Catherine Graves

If you're interested in how Virtual Reality is used in pro-environmental behaviour research, here is a recent talk hosted by the University of Leeds Alumni team featuring Catherine Graves, a PhD student at the Sustainability Research Institute at Leeds. She discusses how we think about our own pro-environmental behaviour and the role VR can play...

Building flexibility into COVID recovery planning

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how techniques from decision making under deep uncertainty (DMDU) can help during COVID-19 recovery planning. DMDU approaches and tools aim to improve the robustness of decisions when it is difficult to predict what the future might look like and to build in flexibility so that plans can...

Building flexibility into your strategic plans

NOTE: this was written with PhD students in mind but is relevant for any of us whose projects will be disrupted by COVID-19  There is so much uncertainty associated with the spread of COVID-19 and the associated restrictions in the UK, but also restrictions in countries where you might be doing fieldwork, that it can...

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