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Name of SpeakerOrganisation
Name of Lecture, date
Centre of Expertise for Waters
connecting Scotland’s water research with policy
The Vision
“To connect research and policy, delivering objective and robust research and professional
opinion to support the development and implementation of water policy in Scotland”
Purpose
• To deliver timely and accurate advice to the SG and implementation partners
• To develop the co-ordination of research, analysis and interpretation
• To stimulate innovative thinking
• To develop a programme of knowledge exchange
Underpinning Philosophy
• Policy as the starting point
• Shortening supply and demand chains
• Collaborations across the supply base– integrated evidence– broadening networks of expertise
• Better use of existing evidence
Strategic Priorities
• Impacts on policy and practice
• Supporting economic growth and innovation
• Collaborative and inter-disciplinary research
• Scientific excellence
• Scientific resilience
Research providing science for application in policy
Translation of policy context into scientific questions
Policy
Business
Sector
RESAS
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Scientists within
Agencies & NDPBs
Main Research Providers
Academia
in Scotland, UK and
overseas
SG RESAS Research Portfolio
RESAS Water Research
Working with Scotland’s Universities
Scottish Universities have been involved in delivering all aspects of CREW during the first year of operation including:
• CREW co-ordination • MASTS provide the administrative conduit to the HEI sector
• CREW project scoping• through HEI networks: MASTS, Telford Institute, SAGES, and IHP-HELP Dundee
• Research projects• Capacity building projects have included Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Dundee, St Andrews and UHI
• Call down service for advice –• Dundee, Heriot-Watt and St Andrews University have all provided experts so far
The CREW Register of Expertise (open to all) aims to facilitate access to a wider expert base from more Universities in the future http://www.crew.ac.uk/get-involved
The What• Translation
• Integration
• Synthesis
• Interpretation
• Briefings
• Syntheses
• Think pieces
• Advice
• Expert opinion
Challenges – Policy Environment
• Understanding and translating needs
• Timescales
• Time horizons
• Simplifying complexity
• Politics (democracy!)
CREW• Steering Group
– Strategic direction
• Policy:Research Advisory Group (PRAG)
– provides central mechanism for
knowledge exchange between science,
policy and practice
– identify “demand” led priorities through Scoping Activities
• Enquiry service
– Access to experts and information
Capacity Building• Projects 2011/12
– Natural flood management
– River functioning and resilience
– Diffuse pollution management
– Coastal flooding
– Mapping of climate change on water demand and supply
– Catchment management planning advice
– Hydro-literacy
– Water, health and well-being
Enhancing Impact
• Communication and engagement
• Policy aware and policy focused
• Relevance and timeliness
• Managing uncertainty
• Holistic / Integrated
• Effective dissemination
Partners