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Title: Research Centre on Sustainable Behaviours and the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affa


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Research Centre on Sustainable Behaviours and the
Department for the Environment Food and Rural
Affairs
  • Andrea Collier
  • Principal Research Officer, Defra
  • April 2008.

2
Challenges
  • Significant challenge of enabling everyone to
    live within our environmental means
  • Develop a sound comprehensive evidence base to
    support strategic outcomes and policy objectives
  • Strengthen social science evidence base

3
What does Defra want to Achieve Through a
Research Centre?
  • High quality, innovative, independent, policy
    relevant evidence
  • Develop the necessary evidence base to address
    the significant policy challenge of how to move
    UK society towards more environmentally
    sustainable patterns of consumption and ways of
    living
  • A strong multidisciplinary approach

4
Objectives
  • Strengthen the research evidence base to help
    inform policy development and implementation
  • Taking a rigorous long-term strategic view
  • Increase capacity in the academic community and
    encourage high quality academics to this field
  • Take a multi-disciplinary approach

5
Objectives (cont.)
  • Draw in new perspectives move beyond
    traditional boundaries
  • Provide a focus for knowledge exchange,
    networking and stakeholder engagement
  • Produce useable research
  • Use and Advance leading edge methods and
    approaches

6
Key Roles for a Research Centre
  • Knowledge brokering
  • Inter-researcher
  • Evidence into policy
  • Knowledge hub
  • Extending the research capacity
  • Multi-disciplinary research leading to
    Inter-disciplinary researchers
  • Evaluation source

7
Structure of the Centre
  • Core Programme
  • Academic led research
  • Longer term, strategic, innovative research
  • Developing and extending the evidence base
  • Policy Responsive Research Projects
  • In-built responsiveness
  • Short-term analyses and research defined by lead
    Govt Department

8
What might the Centre Look Like?
Policy Responsive projects
  • Virtual centre
  • Core - conceptual,
  • theoretical research
  • Policy responsive
  • orbiting research
  • Big Question how to achieve this model

9
How to Ensure Complementarity
  • Partnership working
  • liaise with the wider research community
  • link to private research companies and
    consultancies to enable responsiveness
  • Exploit synergies between
  • existing research groups
  • Defra expertise and research community

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Andrea CollierPrincipal Research Officer,
Defraandrea.collier_at_defra.gsi.gov.uk
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