Will you be part of what we’re building?

The Agile Initiative is nothing if not ambitious. As well as feeding the best evidence into environmental policy through our own research Sprints, we also want to enable the wider academic community to do the same. We want to create a critical mass of researchers capable of delivering rapid, policy-led research through dedicated training and career development opportunities aligned with the Researcher Concordat.

The UK already has one of the strongest environmental research communities in the world, yet it cannot meet the scale of the environmental challenges that we now face. We need to expand and empower that community, give them the skills to work across disciplines, and react quickly to policy needs. As well as changing the culture so that this essential work is valued in academic recruitment and retention policies.

To achieve this we need you! We’ll soon be offering training in the Sprint approach, summer schools to share experiences and lessons from our Sprints, and other opportunities to learn with us. We are also building our network of interested researchers from Oxford and beyond who may want to work on future Sprints, as well as potential policy partners who have critical questions that they need answers to. Please register your interest and we will get in touch when we have more relevant information or opportunities for you.