Events

An ECRR workshop specifically for ECRR members.

Starting at 13.30 on the afternoon of Thursday 19th January 2012, and taking place at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, the workshop is on “Engaging the Public in Rural Science”.

The structure of the workshop will be as follows: three key-note presentations, from across the membership, will be made by Anuschka Miller, Patricia Hart and David Miller.

These will be followed by three round-table discussions in breakout groups, focused on “Measuring impact”, “Engaging with the media” and “Engaging with new media”.

This workshop is designed specifically for practitioners, and we are keen to encourage someone from each of the ECRR member organisations to attend.

A sandwich lunch will be available from 12.30. Tea and coffee will be made available mid afternoon.

Please reply to the Secretary/Treasurer to indicate interest and intention to attend.

Exploring the role that climate-related knowledge networks can play in shaping understanding of and responses to climate change within a rural context, this one-day forum aimed to facilitate conversations between scientists and interest groups.

Output from the forum will be a report that summarises, for Scottish Government and others, activity across research networks. The report will be posted here as soon as it becomes available.

Slideshow presentations can be found on the Climate Connections event website.

Videos of the presentations are on the YouTube channel of the Centre for Mountain Studies.

This workshop examined the challenges facing remote parts of rural Scotland in the digital age, taking an overview of the current situation and exploring the possible solutions to bringing high-speed internet connection to rural Scotland.

Slide presentations from the seminar are now available to view.

This meeting looked at public responses to climate change in respect to:

Scientists’ and policy makers’ ideas about climate change

Policies such as the promotion of renewables

Public perceptions of the key environmental challenges and the effect on lifestyle choices

The purpose of this one-day forum was to review current knowledge on the status and values of Scotland’s rural biodiversity and to explore successes and failures in achieving biodiversity goals.

The forum was organised by ECRR in association with the Aberdeen Research Consortium and with the support of the Scottish Biodiversity Forum and Scottish Natural Heritage.

More than 100 participants heard from 13 speakers about a broad spectrum of issues and the challenges that researchers face. Slide presentations can be viewed here.

Some 20 poster presentations were also made and abstracts of these presentations can be viewed here.

ECRR and Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER) organised a seminar on 7 November 2007 to share information on climate change research.

More than 50 participants heard from 9 speakers about a broad spectrum of issues and the challenges that researchers must face.

Slide presentations from the seminar can be viewed here.

A meeting to discuss issues relating to traditional and renewable energy technologies and their social and environmental impacts was held on 30th May 2007 at the SNH Battleby Centre near Perth.

The meeting was organised jointly by ECRR and the UK Energy Research Centre with the support of the Scottish Executive, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Aberdeen Research Consortium.

Abstracts of talks can be viewed here.