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Drawing on a year-long, policy-engaged Sprint with Natural Resources Wales, Agile Initiative researchers reflect on the research infrastructure, relationships, and diverse ways of working that can support genuine co-creation alongside live policy processes.

Agile researcher Amelia Farber writes about running a session at London Climate Action Week with the Net Zero Education project and the Children and Climate Initiative.

Rachel Hayman joined other Changing the Environment programme managers to present at this year's ARMA conference. In this post, Helen Driver (Cambridge University) reflects on their session, "Delivering the innovative, interdisciplinary 'Changing the Environment' programme: learning with the Research Programme Managers".

Agile showcased some fantastic research at this year’s London Climate Action Week, presenting as part of the “Oxford Venue” which hosted a range of talks and workshops from the University of Oxford.

Hannah van Vijfeijken highlights actionable evidence showing that drought and extreme heat are disproportionately affecting highly vulnerable groups of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the need systematically to integrate violence prevention into climate action.

Policy Liaison Officer and Research Assistant Charlotte Boddy talks about her experience working on an Agile Sprint team/

Lucy Rodwell, our Impact Facilitator, reflects on explaining the Sprint model and working at Agile: 'Agile has not just shown that you can deliver primary research within a year, but also that you can deliver outcomes and impacts in a very short timeframe, too. '

DPhil Candidate, Bothaina Eltigani reflects on her Agile Sprint experience: “My biggest takeaway is how powerful constraint can be. It sharpened my ability to identify what truly matters, act quickly, and treat research as an evolving process rather than a linear path."

Civil servant Tim Lennox writes about his experience seconding to INET Oxford.