A project to re-evaluate the impacts of environmental science from diverse community perspectives with the aim of using these insights to inform the UK’s research agenda.
The University of Birmingham is part of a national initiative, Engaging Environments, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) bringing together storytelling, community centred citizen science and community organising. Engaging Environments aims to create a national community of practice to share learning, create tools and connect environmental science with citizens actively campaigning for social justice. The initiative seeks to frame ways of working to negotiate and agree a shared language and to enable people and their perspectives to be heard.
Issues such as energy, pollution, climate change, air quality and others are in the Engaging Environments collective. It forms part of NERC’s wider Engaging Environments programme and builds on earlier pilot projects, ENCOMPASS, based at Birmingham, and Opening up Science for All!, based at Reading University.
The project is led by the Universitiy of Reading in partnership with the University of Birmingham, University College London, the Universities Manchester and Newcastle and involves Earthwatch, Tekiu and Citizens UK. A further 25 partners including the Woodland Trust, the Natural History Museum and open science portal, Figshare, will also contribute to the project.
Engaging Environments was featured in a recent Guardian article The rise of citizen science: can the public help solve our biggest problems?
Attend our workshops, and help us create a community of practice that brings together University of Birmingham colleagues and community partners to share practices, learning and perspectives.
To find out more contact Derren Cresswell d.j.cresswell@bham.ac.uk or Carl Stevenson c.t.stevenson@bham.ac.uk
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