Core questions for the workshop...
- RESEARCH CONTENT: what research do practitioners need to support, enhance and evaluate specific areas of their work: land management, species-focused actions, habitat restoration, monitoring, detecting and measuring change, etc.
- RESEARCH PRIORITY: what are the major research priorities within each of these work areas?
DAY 1. Wednesday 1st February
08:00 Registration desk opens
- Collect badges
- £20 optional donation
Welcome
09:30 Host institution welcome address
Dawn Scott, Head of Ecology & Conservation Research Group
University of Brighton
Perspectives from the sector....
09:45 Lucy Rogers (NGO perspective & contexts)
Director of Delivery Programmes, Avon Wildlife Trust
09:55 Gary Kass (Statutory Agency perspective & contexts)
Deputy Chief Scientist/Strategic Futures Specialist for Natural
England
10:05 Sally Hayns (Environmental consultant perspective & contexts)
CEO of the Chartered Institute for Ecology & Environmental
Management CIEEM
10:15 Nathalie Pettorelli (British Ecological Society perspective & contexts)
BES Secretary, Conservation Specialist Interest Group
10:25 Eleanor Sterling (AMNH and IUCN-WCPA perspective & contexts)
Director of AMNH Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and chair
of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Introduction to workshop tasks
10:55 Background to workshop and introduction to process
Mark O’Connell, Director of ERT Conservation
Rachel White, University of Brighton
- Description of tasks, frameworks, activities, timings and outputs
- Allocation of workshop groups
11:30 TEA/COFFEE
11:40 Workshop 1 (breakout groups)
- Getting to know your group
- Review of framework you will use to develop research questions:
identifying activities within your job role for which you require
research evidence
12:30 Workshop 1 (plenary)
- Feedback and updates from group sessions
13:00 LUNCH
- Buffet
- Talk 1: Decision support tools for practitioners
Peter Long (Oxford University)
14:00 Workshop 2 (breakout groups)
- Start of process to identify research evidence required for different
activities within your job (identified in workshop 1)
15:00 Workshop 2 (plenary)
- Feedback and updates from group sessions
15:30 TEA/COFFEE
15:45 Workshop 3 (groups)
- process continued
16:45 Workshop 3 (plenary)
- review of discussions so far.…
17:00 END OF DAY 1
19:30 Evening meal and drinks in Brighton
DAY 2. Thursday 2nd February
09:00 Welcome
- introduction to the day’s activities
09:10 Workshop 4 (groups)
- process continued
10:30 Workshop 4 (plenary)
- review of discussions so far.…
11:00 TEA/COFFEE
11:20 Workshop 5 (groups)
- process continued
12:30 Workshop 5 (plenary)
- review of discussions so far.…
13:00 LUNCH
- Buffet
- Talk 2: The Conservation Evidence initiative
14:00 Prioiritisation of elements of identified research needs (plenary)
- Key issues & discussions
15:00 TEA/COFFEE
15:10 Developing a process for what happens next
Activities after the meeting....
- Publication (& other communications)
- Gap analysis: identifying additional research questions
- Plugging in to existing schemes, initiatives, strategies
- Matching the evidence needs identified by this workshop
with current available data/information sources
15:50 Synthesis and summary
16:00 END OF DAY 2
- Thanks and farewells