What are sprints?

The Agile Initiative responds to specific environmental policy questions with fast-paced solution-focused research that delivers new research precisely when it is needed. World-leading academic teams from across Oxford work closely with policy, industry, NGO and local collaborators to feed evidence-based responses to a single, key question into the policy cycle in real-time. These are ‘Sprints’.

Sprints are a faster, more collaborative way of conducting research that break down the barriers between stakeholders and bring varied scientific disciplines together to deliver the best possible policy solutions to critical environmental challenges.

  • Sprint in focus

    How do we account for biodiversity?

    This Sprint will support an integrated approach to renewing and restoring nature in a socially just way.

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