Research Impact

Dr Lynn Dicks from Department of Zoology, an expert on wild pollinators, reflects on the opportunity to bring her research findings to DEFRA and Natural England to support policies to encourage farmers, as part of an ‘agri-environment package’, to sow a mix of wild flowers and thus encourage the return of wild pollinators such as bumblebees.

Current thinking on energy is focused on supply rather than demand. This is misplaced according to Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment at Cambridge. Efforts to plan a response to climate change are largely stuck, having been driven by conventional economic thinking and over-stated engineering optimism about innovation.

Language contributes to UK prosperity: languages are a ‘value-added’ skill Language learning forms part of ‘cultural agility’ from knowing other languages and cultures Languages provide value-added skills across a range of occupations There is increasing understanding of the personal and societal...

In order to have a food system which is more resilient against shocks, we need to know which potential shocks to scan for, how consumers and the market respond to such shocks, and which methods of horizon scanning work best.