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Highlands Rewilding has released a comprehensive "Engagement Roadmap". This roadmap, developed in collaboration with researchers from the Agile Initiative, presents a strategy for effective public and stakeholder engagement in rewilding and nature-based solutions projects.

Agile started with six sprint projects in 2022, and will fund more from the research grant as the Initiative evolves. But how should we decide what new projects to fund? How do we identify the most pressing questions that Oxford-based researchers can offer solutions to, rapidly? In June 2023 we launched a call for new sprint ideas.

The Agile Initiative ran a summer school called “Connecting environmental research with policy: a pathway to real-world impacts” in July 2023. It set the scene of UK local, regional and national environmental policy and legislature, asking the invited speakers and attendees: how do we get research into policy?

In a collaboration between the Nature-based Solutions Sprint, RSPB and WWF, written evidence has now been submitted as part of the Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) to the EAC Inquiry on Heat Resilience and Sustainable Cooling.

The MPEC 80 outcomes are a step in the right direction, underlining that continued research efforts, such as this Agile Sprint, are required to inform ongoing dialogues around new policies to achieve the new targets set.

To support both developers and LPAs to successfully implement BNG, the Sprint team has developed a checklist so that any mistakes can be corrected early. Posing 15 questions over four categories, alongside detailed guidance on how to find the answer, working through this checklist is a simple and effective way to ensure best practice.

Introducing Hannah Nicholas, Research Assistant and Coordinator for the Agile Sprint investigating how we account for Biodiversity.

‘Re-designing nutrient flows in Leicestershire’ workshop brings Agile Sprint a step closer to developing a tangible action plan for the decision-makers in Leicestershire

The Agile Initiative is inviting Oxford University researchers to come forward with ideas for new Sprint research projects.