DEVELOPING A DROUGHT NARRATIVE RESOURCE IN A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DECISION-MAKING UTILITY FOR DROUGHT RISK MANAGEMENT

Title	Animation of DiCaSM model Output for Stakeholders
Description	For engagement purpose, animation plots of model results (stream flow, recharge, evaporation, soil moisture deficit, wetness index, etc.) have been successful in engaging participants in DRY project meetings. A code has been added to the DiCaSM model and a supporting software to capture the model animation plots and placing them into presentation were integrated.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2017
Impact	The animation plots of model results (stream flow, recharge, evaporation, soil moisture deficit, wetness index, etc.) have been successful in engaging participants in DRY project meetings. A comparison of dry versus wet year side by side in animation plots sent a clear message to audiences and triggered good feedback and fruitful discussion.

Title	Archive of drought narrative resources for seven catchments - in progress
Description	Co-produced narrative resources (stories in different forms - including digital stories) are being built up for DRY's seven case-study catchments (Fowey, Frome , Ebbw, Pang, Bevills Leam, Don and Fife Eden). The artefacts capture water stories relating to drought (past, present and future) across different domains (water supply, business, agriculture, built environment, health and wellbeing, public/communities, ecosystem services)
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2016
Impact	On-going sharing of stories as an iterative process - to generate more stories. Stories will form part of DRY's decision-support 'utility'; at present this is being scoped but is likely to be in a ESRI story-mapping format which allows stories, science and narrative in the same space.
URL	http://www.dryproject.co.uk

Title	DRY Primary School Book - DRY: Story of a Water Super Hero
Description	Research informed book for Key Stage 2 (UK). Promoting drought awareness and positive water behaviours. Coproduced with between DRY researchers, two specialist teacher trainers in primary education and a socially-engaged artist. Also has accompanying teachers' notes.
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2020
Impact	The boook and notes are being promoted through various routes including water companies (e.g. Thames Water) and the National Trust. Impacts to be updated.
URL	http://dryutility.info/learning

Title	Drought Animation
Description	3 minute drought animation in collaboration with University of Gloucestershire Animation unit.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2017
Impact	Animation has been used by water stakeholders in the consortium of the DRY project.
URL	http://www.vimeo.com/224749603

Title	Flood Memory App
Description	During DRY project, used catchment evidence to further develop a Flood Memory App in the Severn Catchment
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2018
Impact	Continued beta testing of app with flood and drought prone communities for evidencing as an impact case study for REF
URL	https://flappy.warwick.ac.uk

Title	Six lesson plans and learning resources for Key Stages 3 and 4 developed in conjunction with the Geographical Association
Description	The resources combine a range of teaching approaches and embed a series of critical thinking techniques in order to further develop students' understanding of the subject matter. Cross-curricular links are made to literacy, numeracy and ICT enabling the students to transfer their skills across the spectrum of subjects. The series of lessons offers opportunities for students to conduct further research, explore the numerous websites and use a range of resources such as choropleth maps to conduct their own investigation into previous drought events and begin to predict future ones from the trends. Each lesson is accompanied by an editable PowerPoint presentation and relevant worksheets.
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2021
Impact	Along with the opportunity to debate and explore the importance of perspective in response to such drought events, students are also able to apply their knowledge and understanding of hydrological systems and the factors that affect drainage basins and the people who live in them. This allows several key themes to be explored and skills integrated and applied across the curriculum.
URL	https://www.geography.org.uk/All-About-Drought-Resources

Title	The DRY Utility
Description	Decision support resource for UK drought risk decision-making. Combines DRY Story Bank; DRY Story Map and various guidance and learning resources (e.g. for schools). Includes code for making Story Bank searchable.
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2020
Impact	Will add once the resource becomes fully live.
URL	http://ww.dryutility.info

Title	There's Something in the Water
Description	This was the first iteration of The Reasons, a live storytelling event, inspired by a traditional method of conflict resolution in Gallura, Sardinia, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Forum Theatre. It is a performance event that takes the form of a mock court with a mock judge presiding over it. Jury members are selected from amongst the audience and community storytellers tell their story on a given subject. There follows a communal meal whereby the issues raised are discussed informally by audience members before evryone returns to hear the jury's 'verdict' - in essence a summing up of the various positions. This event was staged in Ramsey Rural Museum in the Cambridgeshire Fens in May 2016.
Type Of Art	Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc)
Year Produced	2016
Impact	The event generated significant interest and was successfully reperformed (with a slightly different cast of storytellers) in Peterborough in November 2016. The method has generated significant interest and we are now planning further work to apply it to a range of different challenges.
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjBO4cNUOJE

Title	Think Water: Storytelling for the furture of Peterborough and the Fens
Description	This was the second iteration of The Reasons, a performance format developed by Michael Wilson, with Antonia Liguori and Lyndsey Bakewell, as a forum for public storytelling and the exploration of issues and dilemmas at community level. It is inspired by a traditional form of Sardinian conflict resolution and takes the form of a mock court. It also incorporates the communal sharing of a meal within a performative framework.
Type Of Art	Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc)
Year Produced	2016
Impact	Further interests were generated and, as a result two funding bids (one to AHRC and one to the European Commission were developed. We have also introduced the methodology onto our workshops on GCRF programmes and expect to create new iterations in the future on a range of issues.
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4l1KlDZaek

Title	Trans.MISSION II
Description	Creative piece of writing aimed at starting conversations about drought with teenagers and young adults. An award-winning author (Patrice Lawrence) specialising in teen fiction is writing a story based on About Drought and Drought Risk & You (DRY) research for the world-famous Hay Festival. Trans.MISSIONII, a joint initiative by UKRI NERC and Hay Festival.
Type Of Art	Creative Writing
Year Produced	2020
Impact	Trans.MISSION II is a global project pairing leading environmental researchers with award-winning storytellers to communicate cutting-edge science to new audiences.
URL	https://www.hayfestival.com/green-hay/transmission-ii/uk

Title	Water, Drought and You: Z card & Posters
Description	As part of the DRY and About Drought projects, we have produced some 'Z card' resources for households and schools to promote learning: 'Water, drought and you: find out more'. The 48 panels weave science and stories about drought and water behaviour - considering lack of water in the UK as a risk, and water as a resource that needs to be valued now and even more in the future.
Type Of Art	Artwork
Year Produced	2021
Impact	#####
URL	https://dryutility.info/learning/

Description	Over the past eight years, we have worked with groups of diverse stakeholders at catchment (seven case-study catchments) and national levels to establish how knowledge integration of different types of evidence (specialist science, stories revealing perceptions) might support local drought risk decision making. We have written up a summative analysis of this process of mutual exchange between the research team and these stakeholders in the journal 'Climatic Change'. Our formative evaluations indicated a positive shift of some individuals in how narrative accounts/ anecdotal evidence are viewed within their work, particularly around risk communication. A bank of resources - based on DRY's findings - were produced to support increased awareness, knowledge/ understanding and behaviour change within UK drought risk management. This DRY Utility (https://www.dryutility.info) is a new evidence base to support better drought risk decision-making in the UK. It is designed to encourage different ways of engaging for different types of user and audience. It comprises three main areas of resources that interlink: • The DRY Story Bank - a searchable database of 300+ stories about drought and wider water relations. Stories can be searched by catchment, by sector or by other key words. • The DRY Story Maps (over 70) which provide an engaging synthesis by six sectors or by seven catchments. Sectors are Business, Agriculture, Environment, Built Environment, Health and Well-being, and Public and Communities. • The DRY Resources - which share insights from our processes with the DRY project and learning resources produced with and for communities and businesses. These resources have been promoted through webinars targeted at different stakeholder groups. The DRY primary picture book (Key stage 2) was designed to increase awareness that drought as a risk in the UK, dispel UK drought myths and encourage agency in young children in dealing with drought and water scarcity. This book gained a silver award of excellence from the UK Geographical Association. It is available online and as hardcopy, with accompanying teacher notes. These learning resources have been used in community learning by various organisations including the National Trust and Natural Resources Wales. The book is promoted on several websites including the STEM Learning website, with downloads monitored. A set of Z cards (48 panels) have been produced and shared - both online and hardcopy - to promote drought awareness among different UK publics. The idea of drought myths as 'hooks' to engagement with UK drought risk was picked up in autumn 21 in a promotional campaign (award winning podcast series) by the Royal Geographical Society. The DRY Learning Resources (six learning packs) were co-produced with an educational developer working for the Geographical Association (GA) to promote awareness of UK drought in secondary schools (Key stage 4/5). These learning packs draw on resources developed within the DRY Utility and are lodged on the GA's website. The uptake and impact of these learning resources has been promoted in various fora (e.g. Geography South West; ECCA 2023) and continues to be evaluated. An additional area of work was to capture stories of drought resilience from water intensive SMEs that are particularly vulnerable to drought. This part of the original DRY Utility has been since been developed further with reflective case-studies. DRY found that sustainability as a topic was a good way into dialogue with businesses about their water use and then drought resilience, whereas UK drought as an explicit hook did not tend to engage. DRY captured drought resilience narratives from SMEs working in brewing, horticulture and the hotel and B&B sector. These are shared on the DRY Utility website and are being promoted around UK SMEs and statutory organisations in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, working with professional bodies. Growers in communities are sensitised to early stages of local drought and can be important for knowledge exchange in communities. A set of seven fliers was produced with the National Allotment Society (NAS) to encourage drought awareness. These are available on the NAS website. In follow up, the DRY team has been asked to do talks and support community-led initiatives on drought resilience and sustainable water management for allotment groups, particularly in Bristol. Continued promotion, and evaluation, of the multi-stakeholder impact of the wider DRY Utility is ongoing by UWE Bristol using additional funds. Most recent engagement includes sharing of DRY resources with the ESRC project "Taps Aff" (working on water security in the Scottish Islands) and the charity River Action for their national River Campaign. This sits alongside further promotion of the primary book through organisations like the Schools Library Association and Natural Resources Wales for additional impact.
First Year Of Impact	2014
Sector	Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types	Cultural Societal

Description	Amphibious Screens - Sustainable Cultures of Water Seminar Series - international network grant
Amount	£9,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Warwick
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2022
End	05/2022

Description	Branching Out: New Routes to Valuing Urban Treescapes
Amount	£583,259 (GBP)
Funding ID	NE/V021176/1
Organisation	Natural Environment Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2021
End	07/2024

Description	How do the Paramos store water? The role of plants and people
Amount	£149,487 (GBP)
Funding ID	NE/R017611/1
Organisation	Natural Environment Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2018
End	07/2022

Description	International Development in the Research Networking Scheme - Creative Methodological Innovations for Inclusive Sustainable Transport Planning (CMIIST
Amount	£46,619 (GBP)
Funding ID	AH/P006086/1
Organisation	Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2016
End	04/2017

Description	MISTRA
Amount	436,844 kr (SEK)
Organisation	Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	Sweden
Start	01/2023
End	12/2023

Description	Made Smarter Network+
Amount	£4,885,886 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/W007231/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2021
End	12/2024

Description	PARAMO - Provisioning of ecosystem services And cultuRAl values in the MOntane tropics
Amount	£233,669 (GBP)
Funding ID	NE/R017417/1
Organisation	Natural Environment Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2018
End	07/2022

Description	Research Development Fund
Amount	£5,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Warwick
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2017
End	07/2018

Description	Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
Amount	€ 125,000 (EUR)
Organisation	European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Sector	Public
Country	Belgium
Start	09/2021
End	10/2025

Description	The AIR Network - Action for Interdisciplinary air pollution Research
Amount	£168,709 (GBP)
Funding ID	AH/R006059/1
Organisation	Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2017
End	03/2019

Description	Thematic Review 4. Vegetation drought responses, wildfires and their impact on hydrology and water quality
Amount	£25,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	Framework 2 Project_30120 Project code SC220020
Organisation	Environment Agency
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2022
End	03/2023

Title	The Reasons
Description	We have developed a new form of public performative storytelling for the inclusion of new voices into policy debates and as a way of communities to come together to explore possible solutions to conflicts and dilemmas relating to environmental resource management. It draws upon a traditional Sardinian form of conflict resolution called La Rasgioni (The Reasons) and takes the form of a 'mock court' where members of the public can tell their stories for consideration by the wider community. Through additional AHRC funding we have successfully trialled the methodology with our community members on the DRY project in the Bevills Leam catchment in the Cambridgeshire Fens.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	There has been interest from other arts-based and environmental researchers in the method as a route to more effective public engagement. We will continue to develop the methodology and disseminate our work accordingly.
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/events/the-reasons-in-the-bevills-leam-catchment/

Title	DiCaSM input databases for 7 catchments: Bevils Lean, Fowey, Don, Eden, Frome, Ebbw and Pang
Description	Established 7 databases for the 7 study catchments to include for each 1km grid square and for 1961-2012 period, the following: 1. Soil types and hydraulic properties within each 1km grid square 2. Land cover distribution within each 1km grid square 3. Rainfall distribution 4. Meteorological distributed data (wind speed, temperature, relative humidity, radiation, Vapour pressure) 5. Land cover parameters 6. Elevation 7. Observed stream flows and stream geometry 8. Limited data for some catchments on abstraction and discharge into rivers. The data were quality controlled then tested using the Distributed Catchment Scale hydrological Model, DiCaSM.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2016
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	The databases were used as input to the DiCaSM model. The model results indicated that between 1961 and 2012 , the 7 catchments were subjected to a number of drought events. This is largely based on the model time series of rainfall, stream flows and evaporation supported by observations. Excellent hydrological modelling work took place using such data basis. Three catchments (Fowey, Ebbw and Bevills Leam) modelling work have been completed and the remaining four are underway. The modelling work evaluated the surface water and ground water availability during drought periods and successfully identified the drought years.
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/

Title	DiCaSM output databases for 6 catchments: Fowey, Don, Eden, Frome, Ebbw and Pang
Description	DiCaSM model results are now saved in results SQL databases. This includes results of 1961-2012 period, baseline 1961-1991 period, climate change scenario periods of 2010-2039, 2040-2069, 2070-2099 periods (each period has 3 emission level scenarios, high, medium & low) using UKCP09 scenarios of Joint Probability and weather generator. .
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	The database will help identifying the possible future Drought frequency for different future years and under different emission scenarios as well as the magnitude of the change in surface and groundwater resources in each study catchment. These important information will help water resources managers and policy makers to develop suitable management schemes for water use by different sectors. .

Title	SQL Input databases for 6 UK catchments established
Description	SQL databases for Don, Fowey, Pang, Frome, Ebbw and Eden catchments were created to include 52 years of data per catchment:: Meteorological data , rainfall, river flow, land cover, soil cover, Elevation , river network, reservoirs, wetlands and water bodies such as lakes.
Type Of Material	Data handling & control
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Enabled the project to reproduce the historical drought events such as those of 1976, 1990's and 2012 which gained the confidence of the stakeholders in the data used and the model prediction for future possible drought events.

Title	The Hydrological Distributed Catchment Scale Model, DiCaSM
Description	The Distributed Catchment Scale model, DiCaSM, is physically based model, distributed (default 1km by 1km grid squares), calculates the hydrological cycle elements: Evaporation, plant transpiration, runoff, recharge, infiltration, stream flow, soil moisture and plant growth. Recently the model has been adapted to the 7 study catchments by: 1.Adding two options to calculate base flow 2.Accounting for abstractions, irrigation and discharges from other sources such as treated wastewater 3.Using SQL server instead of Microsoft Access 4.Adding fast calibration option 5.Adding more figure plotting facility e.g. base flow 6.Adding two extra "Goodness of fit parameters" to the classical Nash Sutcliffe Efficiency, NSE namely the coefficient of determination, R2 and the NSE based on logarithmic values of the observed and simulated stream flows 7. Adding monthly climate change factors to the model and creating a separate tab for climate change.
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	Preliminary results of the DiCaSM model results have been presented to the Local Advisory Group (LAG) in each catchment, discussed and the feedback was great. the LAG is composed of stakeholders and includes the regional water company, the local Environment Agency, EA , the local representative of the National Farmers Union, NFU, Drought and Flood forums, Environmental group, small businesses and local schools. Every 6 months, a LAG meeting is held locally at the catchment and the modelling results are presented to the LAG's of the 7 catchments: Bevils Lean, Fowey, Don, Eden, Frome, Ebbw and Pang. The modelling results so far have been well received, stimulated discussions and suggestions. Excellent impact so far. The Hydrological modelling of Fowey, Bevills Leam and Ebbw catchments have been completed and these three catchments are now running with UKCP09 climate change future scenarios.
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/

Description	ACUMEN - Archives for Climate Uncertainty, Memory and Engagement
Organisation	University of the West of England
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	A collaboration between University of West of England, University of Warwick, Loughborough University, Mass Observation Archive, Modern Records Centre and variety of regional and professional archives to explore uncertainty evidence.
Collaborator Contribution	Partners from the Afterlives of Protest network (Mass Observation Archive, Modern Records Centre) brought their expertise and knowledge of holding s to the development of a large AHRC grant submitted February 27th 2020.
Impact	This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration. ACUMEN is exploring reconnecting communities with their cultural memories of everyday uncertainty. National repositories such as The National Archives, Mass Observation Archive (MOA), BBC Archives, BFI, MetLib, British Geological Survey (BGS) Archives and the Modern Records Centre will be mobilised to re-visit their roles and collections for evidence of climate uncertainty experience and adaptation. Regional and local collections (such as the Media Archive for Central England, Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, John Moore's Museum, Tewkesbury) and the informal archives of local flood action groups are being explored to creatively connect to address the need for communities to learn to live with uncertainty in place-specific ways.
Start Year	2019

Description	Citizen Science and MSc student projects in collaboration with UWE
Organisation	University of the West of England
Department	Department of Nursing and Midwifery
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Hospitals
PI Contribution	CEH has set up an ecological experiment at two sites in each river catchment. On each site there are 15 plots called 'mesocosms', which are used to measure the effects of drought on grassland plants and insects and will be scaled-up to generate catchment-level information. At each site, 12 mesocosms have roofs which intercept 50% of rainfall and simulate drought. 6 have roofs which allow rain through (to monitor the influence of the frame on plant growth) and 12 have no roof or frame ('controls' which allow us to compare plant growth in the absence of drought). The experiment was set up in autumn 2015 and citizen science data collection began in February 2016.
Collaborator Contribution	Volunteering summary ? Since the start of 2016 eighteen citizen scientist volunteers have contributed over 160 hours of their time collecting data at the Simms Hill site in the Frome catchment. ? Citizen scientist volunteers visited several times a month during 2016, with weekly visits during the summer. ? They collected data on plant height, flowering dates and presence of pollinators, worked in the lab, helped with site maintenance and recorded their digital stories MSc student of UWE are carrying out research projects at the Bristol sites using the facilities of CEH. Good partnership and cooperation practice.
Impact	A flyer (2 pages) summarizing the preliminary results of the Citizen Science volunteers was produced and made available at the DRY project web site. The title of the Flyer is: The DRY Project Citizen Science Summary for 2016 (P. Ramirez) 25.1.2017
Start Year	2015

Description	Transformative Memory - Confronting the Past in Grand-Scale Socio-Economic Change
Organisation	Aarhus University
Country	Denmark
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	This project seeks to move memory and heritage studies beyond an exclusive focus on "conflictual pasts" in the traditional sense, while not neglecting the importance of understanding collective responses to historical violence. We aim to bring together scholars to discuss memory from a holistic perspective of large-scale transformation processes. The following areas have been identified as starting points for framing discussions: Post-industrial communities Reconfiguration of welfare and social care systems Post-conflict divisions in society Changing political landscapes Environmental change
Collaborator Contribution	Researchers of protest memory are contributing in terms of leadership, conference contributions and research meetings across Europe to develop a COST network bid for April 2020.
Impact	Conference at Nottingham Trent University, 3-5 June 2020
Start Year	2019

Description	Transformative Memory - Confronting the Past in Grand-Scale Socio-Economic Change
Organisation	Nottingham Trent University
Department	School of Arts and Humanities
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	This project seeks to move memory and heritage studies beyond an exclusive focus on "conflictual pasts" in the traditional sense, while not neglecting the importance of understanding collective responses to historical violence. We aim to bring together scholars to discuss memory from a holistic perspective of large-scale transformation processes. The following areas have been identified as starting points for framing discussions: Post-industrial communities Reconfiguration of welfare and social care systems Post-conflict divisions in society Changing political landscapes Environmental change
Collaborator Contribution	Researchers of protest memory are contributing in terms of leadership, conference contributions and research meetings across Europe to develop a COST network bid for April 2020.
Impact	Conference at Nottingham Trent University, 3-5 June 2020
Start Year	2019

Description	Transformative Memory - Confronting the Past in Grand-Scale Socio-Economic Change
Organisation	Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
Country	France
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	This project seeks to move memory and heritage studies beyond an exclusive focus on "conflictual pasts" in the traditional sense, while not neglecting the importance of understanding collective responses to historical violence. We aim to bring together scholars to discuss memory from a holistic perspective of large-scale transformation processes. The following areas have been identified as starting points for framing discussions: Post-industrial communities Reconfiguration of welfare and social care systems Post-conflict divisions in society Changing political landscapes Environmental change
Collaborator Contribution	Researchers of protest memory are contributing in terms of leadership, conference contributions and research meetings across Europe to develop a COST network bid for April 2020.
Impact	Conference at Nottingham Trent University, 3-5 June 2020
Start Year	2019

Description	Transformative Memory - Confronting the Past in Grand-Scale Socio-Economic Change
Organisation	University of Warsaw
Country	Poland
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	This project seeks to move memory and heritage studies beyond an exclusive focus on "conflictual pasts" in the traditional sense, while not neglecting the importance of understanding collective responses to historical violence. We aim to bring together scholars to discuss memory from a holistic perspective of large-scale transformation processes. The following areas have been identified as starting points for framing discussions: Post-industrial communities Reconfiguration of welfare and social care systems Post-conflict divisions in society Changing political landscapes Environmental change
Collaborator Contribution	Researchers of protest memory are contributing in terms of leadership, conference contributions and research meetings across Europe to develop a COST network bid for April 2020.
Impact	Conference at Nottingham Trent University, 3-5 June 2020
Start Year	2019

Description	UK Droughts and Water Scarcity Work Package 4
Organisation	University of the West of England
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Submitted Co-Investigator - Developing/ trialling new social networking protocols for promoting on-going inter-professional and public dialogue about drought and water scarcity.
Collaborator Contribution	Submitted to council
Impact	Not yet funded, with council
Start Year	2016

Description	"From Personal To Collective: Singing Water Stories In the UK Exploring Environmental Narratives Through Digital Storytelling and Songwriting in DRY Project", Narratives and Alternative Stories Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Project team member Antonia Liguori and singer Sharron Kraus presented a paper about "From Personal To Collective: Singing Water Stories In the UK Exploring Environmental Narratives Through Digital Storytelling and Songwriting in DRY Project". The paper was a performative presentation, drawing upon the form of the 'Radio Ballad', in which micro-narratives captured during the events interwove with the two songs inspired by those narratives. They both received a variety of questions from the audience at the end of their paper and also after the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUq_LiDRb1M

Description	"Think Water: Digital Storytelling Workshop to Explore the Impact of Climate Change"
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	At the workshop, we started by showing some digital stories created with the local community and with other communities we have worked with in DRY - Drought Risk and You project. Participants then worked at the event to generate some new audio reflections and digital stories during the day. We followed up with individuals afterwards to finalise the stories and share copies. Project team members received email aftewards where participants shared their enthusiasm of having used creative approaches to imagine future stories.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	"Think Water: Digital Storytelling Workshop to Explore the Impact of Climate Change"
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	At the workshop, we started by showing some digital stories created with the local community and with other communities we have worked with in DRY - Drought Risk and You project. Participants then worked at the event to generate some new audio reflections and digital stories during the day. We followed up with individuals afterwards to finalise the stories and share copies. Project team members received email afterwards where participants shared their enthusiasm of having used creative approaches to imagine future stories.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	'"Hand in Hand": Some Thoughts on Storytelling, Health and Dealing with a Post-Truth World'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was an invited keynote as part for the International Conference on Storytelling for Health, Swansea held in May 2017. The audience was a mixture of academics, health practitioners, policymakers, storytelling practitioners. The paper discussed the issue of the relationship between storytelling and science in a post-truth context. There was much debate and questions afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	'Harnessing the potential of Storytelling in Sustainable Communication'
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was an online workshop, run with Dr Marcus Bussey from the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia), as part of the MISTRA project, run by Swedish Centre for Research and Education on Learning for Sustainable Development at Uppsala University. The workshop was attended by participants from all over Sweden from a variety of backgrounds, including, researchers, businesses, policymakers and general public. This led to lively discussion and a new collaborative funding bid with SWEDESD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	'Storytelling and the Digital Revolution: How Technology Has Changed Our Narrative Selves And How It Has Not' - Public Lecture at Voronezh State University, Russia
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This was a public lecture given online (due to COVID restrictions) through Voronezh State University and facilitated through the British Embassy in Moscow and the UK-Russia Cultural Bridge programme. In Voronezh there was a large audience of faculty and postgraduate students and elsewhere in Russia people joined from other universities and there was also a general public audience. The British Embassy provided simultaneous translation. There was a lively discussion afterwards and the talk was followed up the following week with a Diogital Storytelling workshop run by Dr Antonia Liguori (Loughborough) and Dr Philippa Rappoport (Smithsonian Institution). Voronezh University have proposed a future collaboration on a summer school and staff and student mobility.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	'Storytelling as Social Thinking: How storytelling can be used to help us navigate through mess, complexity and exclusion'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation, entitled 'Storytelling as Social Thinking: How storytelling can be used to help us navigate through mess, complexity and exclusion' to members and invited audience at the James Hutton Research Institute in Aberdeen. Good discussion amongst audience afterwards and this has led to further discussions regarding possible future collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	'Storytelling with a Social Purpose, or how we are trying to change the world, one story at a time', Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	An invited lecture/talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, delivered online, due to COVID restrictions. It led to a lively discussion and set of questions with positive feedback from the Society's Committee.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	'There is something in the water' (Ramsey)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A performative Storytelling event under 'The Reasons' project. We invited general public and local stakeholders to a forum for community public storytelling as a way of exploring dilemmas and conflicts about water governance. The action was presented as a mock court, presided over by a community elder with other community members playing the part of the jury. In turn, various stakeholders were invited to tell their stories and could be questioned for clarification by either the jury or the general public, who were gathered as the audience. After all the stories were told, everyone (judge, jury, witnesses and general public) retired to enjoy a communal meal, before returning to the hall, where the jury delivered its verdict, for which the judge then provided an interpretation, one that combines vernacular wisdom with a healthy disregard for traditional power structures, to share a resolution that unites, rather than divides the community. Overall the evaluation was positive with many of the participants commenting on the project's success in fostering open discussion around complex, and potentially divisive issues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/events/theres-something-in-the-water-the-reasons-stories-about-water-usage-d...

Description	'Think Water': Storytelling for the future of Peterborough and the Fens (Peterborough)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Public Performative Storytelling Event. As happened in Ramsey in June, we invited local groups and organisations, such as the NFU, Natural England, The Great Fen Project and Angling Trust, and general public for an evening of convivial local storytelling, food and drink. 10 storytellers shared their experiences of water management and plans for the future as climate change is a growing concern. There was the opportunity to ask questions and sharing experiences from the audience, while also learning about how Peterborough and the Fenlands can help each other in the future. The evening of entertainment took the form of a mock court room, where members of the community shared stories about water usage, the flood/drought nexus and the future of the Fens. Involving an advisory jury made up of young people, the event was designed for all of the community. As part of the event, we also had a communal meal, which was made with locally sourced produce. Court-artists, a musician, a caricaturist, a poetic judge and some good food promise made this a lively and fun-filled evening of community, music, stories and laughter. Feedback was very positive and this has led to further discussions about possible additional work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/events/think-water-storytelling-for-the-future-of-peterborough-and-the-fens/

Description	'Why Storytelling?' Panel presentation for Culture 2.0, part of the IX International Cultural Forum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Professor Wilson participated in a panel discussion with an international panel of cultural professionals and senior museum curators/directors from Russia, USA and Croatia. The event was part of Culture 2.0, itself part of the IX International Cultural Forum, St. Petersburg, Russia, and contributed to a theme on Storytelling. Professor Wilson was invited as an international expert on storytelling and referenced a number of projects to indicate how digital technology has transformed our storytelling practices. The event was originally planned to take place in person in St. Petersburg, but was belatedly moved to online due to the COVID pandemic. Each panel member presented for ten minutes and this was followed by questions from the audience and discussion between the panel members.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://culturalforum.ru/en/events/why-we-need-storytelling

Description	A competition in collaboration with Waterwise - What would your home, school, or garden look like if we were to use water more wisely?
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	A competiton was run in collaboration with Waterewise askingr children to use their imagination to illustrate what their community would look like if we all used water more wisely! Entries were recieved from individual children and groups of children from different schools across the UK. Prizes were awarded for 2 different age categories 5-9 & 10-13 in each of the 4 countries of the UK. The aim of the competition was: Raise awareness of the importance of treating water as a precious resource in the face of climate change, based on the research of the Drought Risk and You (DRY) Project Teach the causes of and impacts of drought in the UK Prompt changes in behaviour to use water more wisely - inspiring children to be agents of change, to protect our communities and our planet, carrying the message back to their homes and families To give them the confidence and background knowledge to engage with some of the themes and messages of COP26, the world's biggest climate change summit being hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November Communicate the accessible science behind the DRY Project, part of the NERC-funded About Drought programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.waterwise.org.uk/drycompetition/

Description	A green and pleasant land: (Jill Thompson, Sarah Ayling and Nevil Quinn). Presentation at DRY (Drought Risk and You) Final Conference, University of West of England, Bristol, UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings on grassland drought from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Dissemination of research to wider than academic audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	A visual walk by the River Don (Sheffield)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Photography workshop and creative walk. As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, we led a 'visual walk' across the River Don from the Riverside pub, to Sheffield castle, passing through the Wicker and Canal basin, joining the Upper Don walk through Kelham Island and industrial heritage sites, to reflect with participants on their experiences of the river in Sheffield and the role of the waterways in the city. We were accompanied by professional photographer Jack Perks and local historian Tim Cooper to allow our attendees to learn about photography and discover more about their local area and water courses. With the difficulties and challenges facing the river and the most obvious water source in the city, community engagement around water issues can often be difficult. The event was conceived to start bringing the river back into the mainstream consciousness of the city. Feedback from participants was positive and it has enabled us to extend our networks with the general public within the River Don catchment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/2016/11/

Description	AAG Conference (San Francisco)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	To promote awareness of project and gain international insight/perspective.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	About Drought (ENDOWS) Business Workshop (UWE Bristol Oct 2017)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This event was the kick off event for the Business work stream of the ENDOWS project. It involved presentations from DRY, MARIUS, Impetus and Historic droughts (the four projects within the NERC Drought and Water Scarcity programme), followed by group discussion about the ways forward for knowledge exchange within different business sectors. The participants involved large businesses, SMEs and the organisations that work with them in capacity building. This informed the development of a plan for co-production over the next two years.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	About Drought (ENDOWS) Community Workshop (UWE Bristol Oct 2017)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This event was the kick off event for the Community work stream of the ENDOWS project. It involved presentations from DRY, MARIUS, Impetus and Historic droughts (the four projects within the NERC Drought and Water Scarcity programme), followed by group discussion about the ways forward for knowledge exchange within different publics/ communities. This informed the development of a plan for co-production over the next two years.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	About Drought Download Conference 7th Nov 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	About Drought Download was the final event of the 5-year UK Drought and Water Scarcity Research Programme, where the outputs and findings from the DRY project were showcased via visual exhibitions, stands, talks, data bars, presentations and creative performances.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://aboutdrought.info/about-drought-download-nov-7th/

Description	Annual Geography Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Field trip to look at rainfall shelter/mesocosm experiment used in DRY (Drought Risk and You) project to study the effects of grassland. It involved a discussion on the impact of climate change, as well as a field experiment to look at the distribution of flowers and pollinators. A method that is to be used for visitors to the site was trialled and the feedback from this informed the final design of the protocol. The field trip raised awareness of the DRY project and its potential for engagement activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Application of hydrological models to assess the impact of climate and land use changes using Don an urbanized catchment in Sheffield area of England, UK (Afzal, M and Ragab, R) . Presentation at "Urban River Flood and Restoration" School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, China
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Wider application of the physical based hydrological model to study flood risk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/2019/05/28/researcher-links-workshop-china-august-2019/

Description	Articles in Gardeners World - Engaging growers as the harbingers of UK drought!
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Growers have strong potential to be the 'eyes on the ground' for developing severe drought. Professor Lindsey McEwen (Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience) has been sharing DRY (Drought Risk and You) project resources nationally within Gardeners' World Magazine. In the October 21 edition, the DRY Picture book for primary schools was promoted. Its storyline highlights the importance of 'valuing water' as a precious and fragile resource alongside awareness of drought as a hidden risk, with scenes set down on the allotment. The December 21 edition encourages awareness of 'winter drought' risk to mitigate against the pervasive association of drought with sun and summer in the public psyche. It asks gardeners to add their local observations of dryness to DRY's crowd sourcing of imagery of UK drought- a valuable national online resource set up with the GIS expertise of Harry West. The DRY Utility and all its learning resources can be accessed at dryutility.info/learning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018,2021

Description	Articles in Voice Magazine, various issues, South Glos
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Project events and a drought story competition were promoted in different local magazines to raise awareness and collect data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Bevills Leam Catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG Drought science update
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios.Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Bevills Leam catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG meeting - Drought Risk Scenario Modelling
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share land use, climate change and catchment hydrological management scenario results from the DRY drought risk modelling, with opportunities to interactively explore specific stakeholder areas of interest and provide accessible summaries of outputs for the non-technical to improve drought risk and drought mitigation communication methodologies. Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to mitigate drought risk and a broader understanding of the multifaceted interlinked nature of drought risk and mitigation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Big Green Week UWE Bristol Workshop 8th Oct 2018 Changing climate and water sustainability: How will changing climate affect your local environment in the future?
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	The workshop aims: Asked 'What if?' for different drought risk futures under different climate projections in the Bristol Frome catchment and shared some of the new science on forecasting and prediction in an easily accessible way. Looked at what the implications might be for our local environment, blue and green spaces. ? A short video-screening of films developed with community members and environmental organisations that share specialist and local knowledge from the Bristol Frome region was shown. ? Discussion and activities took place to look at what the hidden impacts of water scarcity and higher temperatures might be for environment and the non-human species we share our space with. ? Sought participants advice about what what options are available to mitigate or adapt to potential future impacts?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Birnie & Gaddon photography workshop, 17/9/2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Environmental photography workshop with local photographer Tracey Dixon. Purpose to engage a new audience and seek views about climate change and local vulnerability. Interviews conducted to contribute to DRY Project digital story archive.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=37730764733

Description	Blog post for Drought Risk and You project website
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Blog for the DRY website on the Health domain
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/drought-science/uncovering-the-hidden-health-effects-of-drought-in-the-uk/

Description	Bradley Stoke Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Having discussions with individuals around drought helped them remember how they cope(d) with drought and raised awareness about future drought events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Briefing Paper: Communicating Drought Risk in a Changing Climate
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A synthesis of existing evidence (pre-DRY project) on best practice on communicating drought risks in a changing climate - produced in response to DRY stakeholders identifying this as a need DRY project could meet for them.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://climateoutreach.org/resources/drought-briefing-paper

Description	Bristol Festival of Nature (Bristol)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Attending the festival with a stand, discussing various social science strands of the project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://uwescicomm.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/tackling-the-challenge-of-engaging-with-drought-and-frog...

Description	Bristol Festival of Nature 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Attending the festival with a stand, discussing various social science strands of the project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-nature/

Description	Bristol Festival of Nature City Nature Challenge 2018 - Field Site Biodiversity, Species Count Day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Participants took part in a transect across the field site to identify different plant and animal species as part of the Bristol Festival of Nature. Contributed records to Bristol Environmental Records Centre. Helped towards Bristol being voted the most biodiverse city in the UK. Participants were shown how to use the i-naturalist app to identify and record their findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/2018/04/

Description	Bristol Water Forum
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Advice to Bristol Water forum about efficient use of water on allotments, researched academic publications about potential risks to health associated with use of hosepipes on allotments, this provided factual evidence to support a petition to Bristol City Council to allow allotment holders to use hosepipes to move stored rainwater. Involvement with the Bristol Water Forum is on-going.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	British Innovation and Drought Solution meeting with South Africa Government Officials, London
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	presenting DRY project and its results to the South Africa Minister of Water Resources and his Team in a meeting hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Westminster, London. Regional Minister Meeting - British Innovation and Drought Solution. Most significant outcome/impact: Possible research and capacity building collaboration between UK and South Africa
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	British Science Week (March 2018) - Visit to Dry Project Field Experiment to Explain Research to General Public
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Visited the DRY project field experiments and explained the aims of the project and methods being used. Participants had an opportunity to make measurements themselves and to look at some preliminary results.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.dryproject.co.uk/citizen-science/british-science-week-2018-exploring-the-interactions-bet...

Description	Chipping Sodbury Riding Tree event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Passers-by were invited to help measuring trees and engaged in conversations about droughts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Citizen Science Volunteering Sesions
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Bringing people into experience a research project, equipping them with skills and understanding links between working on an ecological research project and personal water relationships.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016,2017

Description	Citizen Science vegetation assessment Eden Catchment
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	Training in vegetation assessment and assessment of grassland experiments. Most significant outcome/impact: Development of skills and experience of field work. Opportunities for discussion of drought and information exchange.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Citizen science volunteering
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Bringing people into experience a research project, equipping them with skills and understandign links between workign on an ecological research project and personal water relationships.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017,2018

Description	Climate Change Conference (Brighton)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	The title of the paper was 'My true UK drought risk story': The role of storytelling to understand (mis)conceptions and beliefs that drive behaviours. Our main objective was to engage the audience around how we are adopting storytelling to investigate perceptions and behaviours in relation to water use and water scarcity within and across seven rivers catchments. We shared challengeable narratives to 'provoke' discussions, enable us to elicit counter-narratives and bring different stories together, whilst challenging the notion that there can only be a single truth about a given situation. Feedback was positive and networks extended.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.academia.edu/29431389/_My_true_UK_drought_risk_story_The_role_of_storytelling_to_underst...

Description	Climate Change and Health: Recent Evidence
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The main aim was to raise awareness of climate change-related health impacts (including droughts).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Co-producing local drought impact indices - linking scenario-ing to the catchment (McEwen, L. and Blake, J.R.)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Description, purpose, outputs impacts: Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to communicate and mitigate drought
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Conference on Communication and Environment (Leicester, UK)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk at an academic conference which also attracts policymakers and practitioners
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Conference on water resources management under climate change, Luxor Egypt
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	presenting DRY project and its results with particular focus on the impact of climate change scenarios of UKCP09 on water resources availability up to 2099. Most significant outcome/impact: Possible research and capacity building collaboration between UK and Egypt.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Connected Communities Conference (London)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	A presentation on The Reasons and our work in the Cambridgeshire Fens as part of the AHRC Connected Communities Utopia events. During the conference, we proposed a 'performative screening' of stories, dialogues and songs generated for and by our local stakeholders to reflect on the potential of a utopian participatory approach for decision-making. During our public engagement activities, language has been identified as one of the main concerns, especially with regard to the impenetrable way in which policymakers and scientists often communicate. Hence we suggested multiple-narrative approaches in various languages to facilitate a utopian universal understanding: verbal/visual, factual/fictional or poetic, English/ other languages. This 'performative screening' was structured in three phases (a dialogue in two different languages, a screening of stories, the playing of a song as part of the storytelling process) to explore the potential re-use of a traditional form of performative orality from Sardinia ('La Rasgioni' or ' The Reasons') that aims to solve dilemmas and disputes within the community, by reconciling conflicting interests in a way that builds resilience and reinforces community cohesion. Feedback was very positive and this has further increased the visibility of the work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/newsevents/events/calendar/utopia-connected-communities-conference/

Description	Connecting Citizens to Water Governance workshop (Warwick)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	The event connects a selection of key researchers and practitioners who are exploring a wide range of strategies for engaging the public in issues of water (i.e. flood, drought, scarcity, pollution, management) in the UK and in Brazil. As part of a 'trans-cultural approach' to exchanging ideas, we have been developing a deeper partnership entitled Narratives of Water with colleagues in São Paulo state, and this chimes with RCUK projects on Sustainable Flood Memories; Drought Risk and You, and the Hydro-citizenship project. In this event we will hear about participatory water cultures, citizen inclusion and the functions of 'Water Councils' in Brazil, experimental and creative hydro-citizenship in the UK as well as ideas for 'sensing' water, and ways we could collaborate to connect citizens to water governance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Craigdead mesocosm site visit 27/9/2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We visited the one of the two mesocosm experiments established in the Eden study catchment, to see and discuss the rain-out shelter which had been constructed and used for the monitoring of rainfall, soil moisture and vegetation. Results were still being processed, but initial findings were that marked differences in soil mositure had been observed as a result of placing the shelters, while the vegetation was showing itself to be relatively robust in its response. Team members met a local farmer, a representative of the local estate (particularly focused on stewardship and sustainability), a SEPA water resources officer and a representative of the Scottish Wildlife Trust. As well as discussing the monitoring experiment itself, the visit stimulated a good discussion about the current water shortage situation and allowed for some interviews to take place, adding to the stock of raw material for the research to draw on.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Cwm River Day community festival, Ebbw Vale
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Having discussions with individuals around drought helped them remember how they cope(d) with drought and raised awareness about future drought events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Cwmtillery Allotment Groups Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A workshop with attendees from two allotment groups in Cwmtillery, incorporating a presentation, activities around drought science materials and group discussions. Participants identified future weather/water changes and consider what measures they would take to adapt.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	DRY -Drought Risk and You - Stakeholder Competency Group
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This Stakeholder Competency Group is working with the full project team as research partners in mutual knowledge exchange. It involves people with national roles in decision-making for drought and water scarcity. The impact is that these individuals and their organisations are engaged with/ contributing to the thinking in our research project right the way through the project. This means that any impact is on-going.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014,2015,2016,2017

Description	DRY Eden Outreach & Engagement Event - Sat 20th Jan 2018 - entitled 'Reaching out in NE Fife - drought risk, climate change, agriculture and YOU!'
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This was an opportunity to share research on the agricultural mesocosms with farmers and the wider farming community in the Eden catchment Fife, Scotland. The local MEP was also present. It took place in a community business - Lomond Hills Hotel. The event was interactive with lively discussion. We also discussed adaptations to water scarcity and captured digital stories from farmers about their drought experiences at the same event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	DRY Mesocosm Facebook Page
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	To stay engaged with volunteers in between volunteering events, to promote other similar citizen science, to attract new volunteers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016,2017
URL	https://www.facebook.com/DRYmesocosms/

Description	DRY Podcast
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Lecturer in Science Communications Andrew Glester reflects on the Dry Conference held at UWE Bristol.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://soundcloud.com/uwebristol/reflecting-on-the-drydrought-risk-and-you-project

Description	DRY Primary Book Launch to teachers 4th Dec 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Using a CPD session for teachers and teacher's in training, a primary school book 'DRY: the diary of a water superhero', developed using the findings from DRY/ENDOWS was showcased.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://dryutility.info/learning/

Description	DRY Project Conference 3rd July 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This conference shared the themes researched within the DRY project, including how we might: • Rethink 'drought data' - its hybridity and variations in scale • Explore drought values and perceptions that influence behaviours • Scenario future drought working with science and narrative • Exploring drought cultures within the UK • Develop 'DRY Thinking' as a process - Drought Risk and You The conference was the next stage in an ongoing dialogue, not only between different disciplines, but also but between researchers and various stakeholders. The conference format will inter-weaved a varied range of shorter science-narrative engagements with different types of performance (song, animation, digital stories, performance poetry and cartooning). The conference was accompanied by the DRY Exhibition, showcasing resources generated by the DRY process, including the DRY Story Bank, the DRY Utility and DRY Action Learning Resources (e.g. around UK Drought Myths in engagement).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/the-dry-conference-3rd-july-2019/

Description	DRY Webinar 1: You save the things first and then the crops". Exploring water dilemmas in/with the farming community through creative practices. 3rd June 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	In the final phase of DRY (Drought Risk and You), a series of webinars was run for participants in our seven catchment Local Advisory Groups (Cornish Fowey, Berkshire Pang, Bristol Frome, Welsh Ebbw, Sheffield Don, Bevills Leam in the Fens and Fife Eden in Scotland). The idea was to encourage discussion of our drought research across our catchments. This webinar shared some creative experiments carried out with(in) the farming community in the Fenland as a way of triggering reflections on the power of personal stories to unlock grassroots knowledge and deliver trustworthy messages. In inter-disciplinary research projects storytelling has been demonstrated to be an effective method to support community engagement and facilitate decision-making processes, especially when applied as a tool to reduce (if not annul) the distance between scientific and lay knowledge, to discover and amplify unheard voices, and to trigger and convey emotions. Stories make information more understandable, memorable and persuasive. As part of our participatory workshops and public engagement events in 'Drought Risk and You' (DRY) project, we've had a chance to experiment with a variety of storytelling approaches to facilitate participation around drought issues and water dilemmas in UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/resources

Description	DRY Webinar 2: Tips and tricks on communicating drought risks 12th June 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	In the final phase of DRY (Drought Risk and You), a series of webinars was run for participants in our seven catchment Local Advisory Groups (Cornish Fowey, Berkshire Pang, Bristol Frome, Welsh Ebbw, Sheffield Don, Bevills Leam in the Fens and Fife Eden in Scotland). The idea was to encourage discussion of our drought research across our catchments. This Webinar shared key findings from our work on drought risk communication,and debated further, using the Webinar as an interactive space to explore opportunities and ideas on engaging the UK public in the linked issues of water use and drought risk. Changing public attitudes to water may seem like an impossible task, but summers like the warm dry one of 2018 are predicted to become more frequent as the climate changes. Working with stakeholders through the Drought Risk and You (DRY) and the linked AboutDrought projects, we have explored the challenges a range of stakeholders face in engaging the public with risks around drought and water scarcity and some of the potential solutions that might help to effect a change in the UK water discourse
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/resources

Description	DRY Webinar 3: Conceiving narrative as data 23rd June 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	In the final phase of DRY (Drought Risk and You), a series of webinars was run for participants in our seven catchment Local Advisory Groups (Cornish Fowey, Berkshire Pang, Bristol Frome, Welsh Ebbw, Sheffield Don, Bevills Leam in the Fens and Fife Eden in Scotland). The idea was to encourage discussion of our drought research across our catchments. Researchers in the arts and humanities usually conceive as data as being primarily numerical and, therefore, as something that, at best, sits on the periphery of how we work. However, if we widen our definition of data to mean simply 'the stuff that we work with', in whatever form it takes, then we can start to perceive of narrative as data and story as the interpretative frame within which a narrative data set can sit. Conversely, we might approach a numerical data set with the question, "what story is being told here?". The webinar explored whether this formulation helps us bring together different disciplinary approaches and research traditions and to more effectively create a meaningful conversation between storytelling and science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/resources

Description	DRY Webinar 4: How will British grassland respond to climate change? 31st July 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	In the final phase of DRY (Drought Risk and You), a series of webinars was run for participants in our seven catchment Local Advisory Groups (Cornish Fowey, Berkshire Pang, Bristol Frome, Welsh Ebbw, Sheffield Don, Bevills Leam in the Fens and Fife Eden in Scotland). The idea was to encourage discussion of our drought research across our catchments. As part of the Drought Risk and You project (DRY project) a field experiment to study the effect of reduced rainfall was set up on two sites within each of the three river catchments; the Bristol Frome, Sheffield Don and Fife Eden. The experiment ran for three years from October 2015 to October 2018. In the field experiment, we recorded which plant species were present and % species cover each year. Plant growth and development was monitored by biomass sampling and measuring the changes in height of selected species. Automatic weather stations were used to record weather conditions, especially rainfall and soil moisture within the experimental plots. This webinar described some of our preliminary results from the Frome catchment and what the results can tell us about likely changes to grasslands if the climate changes as predicted. At one field site in the Frome catchment, we had help from volunteers and the challenges and benefits of integrating citizen science into the project were discussed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/resources

Description	DRY Webinar 5: Learning from stories of drought: how do people talk about connections between health and the environment? 15th August 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	In the final phase of DRY (Drought Risk and You), a series of webinars was run for participants in our seven catchment Local Advisory Groups (Cornish Fowey, Berkshire Pang, Bristol Frome, Welsh Ebbw, Sheffield Don, Bevills Leam in the Fens and Fife Eden in Scotland). The idea was to encourage discussion of our drought research across our catchments. The webinar explored stories in which health has been or may have been affected by drought, heatwave or another cause of 'water supply interruption'? It can be a difficult connection to make in the UK where water supply outages are generally uncommon. Talking with people about drought and health has revealed complex impacts on different physical and natural environments, which in turn influence both physical and mental health and wellbeing. This webinar shared some of the perceived and reported health effects, from UK stories and global literature, as a provocation for participants to think about their own health and drought or health and water stories. In this way, we aim to highlight the complex connections between environmental change, human-infrastructure interactions and health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/resources

Description	Daylighting the hidden': interdisciplinary reflections on theory and practice of storying drought. Social Science of Water Network Day. Manchester. 15th March 2019.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation to Social Science of Water Network Day. Manchester. 15th March 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Digital Humanities: Transformative Landscapes
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation about 'Digital storytelling and place-attachment: a 'lens' through which to analyse people's values in the DRY (Drought Risk and You) project. A 'sense of place' was proposed as a crucial factor in the way that people respond to extreme weather and disruptive events in their communities, and 'local distinctiveness' as a potential reason for different responses and ways of coping/adapting. The presentation reflected on ways that digital storytelling might triangulate between personal experience, place attachment and crisis (drought) response and considered the potential use of digital storytelling as a way of validating a Sentiment Analysis on Social Media in the DRY project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Digital Storytelling and Slow Storytelling
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This was a GREAT talk hosted by the British Council in India. I gave it to a public audience at the UK Pavillion at the International Kolkota Book Fair and also to a student/staff audience at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkota.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	Digital Storytelling workshop on climate change organised with LU Arts
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Digital Stories produced as part of the PARAMO, PARAGUAS, DRY projects were used to trigger conversations around environmental issues while students learned how to make a digital story, developing their technical, creative and curatorial skills.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.lborouniartsfestival.co.uk/digital-storytelling-climate-change/

Description	Discussions about rewilding (Victoria Park, Bristol)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	visits to Victoria Park Bristol to discuss how rewildling or natural regeneration could be used to mitigate climate change. These discussions lead to production of a bid for Heritage Lottery Funding and an undergraduate disertation project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Don Catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG Drought science update, Sheffield
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Don Catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG Drought science update, Sheffield
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Don Catchment Science day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussion of drought risk and local narratives on drought in the Don catchment. Demonstration of grassland drought experiments. Reservoir walk and demonstration of grassland mesocosms. Most significant outcome/impact: Information exchange on local drought issues with diverse stakeholders. Contributing to the development of songs and narratives for communication exchange.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Drought & Water Scarcity Programme: Early Career Researchers Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	"Each researcher was given the opportunity to present aspects of their work to the whole group for five minutes. People join up in pairs to discuss common areas of interest and research and identify where there might be any possibility for collaboration. This could range from sharing data, the name of a contact, analyzing data, writing a blog, presentation or paper together, making a podcast or video and so on. An open space discussion was then organised. People whose question or topic was chosen as one of the 'Discussion Hub', hosted the discussion of that topic. People who were not a Discussion Hub Leader were free to join a Hub in accordance with their interest in the topic and had to engage by contributing in some way. A number of Discussion Topics were created, and the following were chosen: ? Can we classify droughts as either Hot or Cold, ie was 2010-2012 a cold drought; is 2017 the start of a hot drought? ? What are your ideas to facilitate communication cross the whole Drought Programme & PCT? ? How can we create continuity / legacy beyond the DWS Programme? ? Are we currently in a drought?"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Drought & Water Scarcity Programme: Early Career Researchers Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Each researcher was given the opportunity to present aspects of their work to the whole group for five minutes. People join up in pairs to discuss common areas of interest and research and identify where there might be any possibility for collaboration. This could range from sharing data, the name of a contact, analyzing data, writing a blog, presentation or paper together, making a podcast or video and so on. An open space discussion was then organised. People whose question or topic was chosen as one of the 'Discussion Hub', hosted the discussion of that topic. People who were not a Discussion Hub Leader were free to join a Hub in accordance with their interest in the topic and had to engage by contributing in some way. A number of Discussion Topics were created, and the following were chosen: ? Can we classify droughts as either Hot or Cold, ie was 2010-2012 a cold drought; is 2017 the start of a hot drought? ? What are your ideas to facilitate communication cross the whole Drought Programme & PCT? ? How can we create continuity / legacy beyond the DWS Programme? ? Are we currently in a drought?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Drought Myth Films X 3
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A real challenge to communicating the urgent need to change our behaviour around water use - whether you are a water company, managing a waterway or creating policy - is the inbuilt misconception in the UK that it's always wet and rainy, that drought is only an issue in other parts of the world. 3 X Drought Myth Busting videos were created to debunk popular misconceptions - such as 'Droughts Only Happen In Summer' and 'Britain Is Wet: Droughts Don't Happen Here' The videos present interviews on location with people on the frontline of water shortages, such as father and daughter dairy farmers David and Fran Herdman as well as About Drought experts. The videos were created in response to the challenge to communicate the urgent need to change our behaviour around water use. Whether you are a water company, managing a waterway or creating policy - is the inbuilt misconception in the UK that it's always wet and rainy, that drought is only an issue in other parts of the world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://aboutdrought.info/videos/

Description	Drought Risk Scenario Modelling Stakeholders Competency Group [SCG meeting], Bristol UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Present and debate the drought risk modelling, with opportunities to improve methodology via feedback from the national stakeholders. National stakeholders included water companies, Environment Agency, National Farmers Union, National River Trust and academics. Most significant outcome/impact: Approval of the the methodologies and Feedback to improve drought risk results communication
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Drought Risk Scenario Modelling [Stakeholders Competency Group, SCG meeting]
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on improved visualisation of drought risk modelling outputs as an aid to improved communication. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback to improve drought risk communication
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Drought Risk Show case, Birmingham
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presenting the modelling results to stakeholders as well as to a wider audiences including academics, Students, and other professional groups.Presenting drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on improved visualization of drought risk modelling outputs as an aid to improved communication. Attended by National Professional practitioners, Policy Makers, Academics, Students, Environment Agency, Farmers Union, water Companies, Universities, and more. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback to improve drought risk communication.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Drought Risk and Farming in the UK - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, CEH - Wallingford
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Brief farmers from Berkshire and Oxfordshire on possible future climate change and possible occurrence of drought. Drought indicators and possible strategies to combat drought such as the use and reuse of non-conventional water resources e.g. treated waste water, roof top water, fish farming waste water, etc.), selection of drought tolerant crops such as quinoa, Lucerne and barley, communication. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback to improve drought risk communication with farming community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Drought Risk and You: 'Drought and growing' Workshop for National Allotment Society 25th Oct 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Workshop with members of the National Allotment Society where ideas were discussed and findings presented on DRY weather and the allotment. How can allotment holders cope with less water?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Drought in Herefordshire
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	I supported Nevil Quinn in drafting an article for the Hereford Times about the local drought conditions and fish rescues which alllowed us to introduce the About Drought project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Drought in the Fowey catchment: Past, Present and Future [Environment Group Workshop]
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented historic and potential future drought risk in the Fowey catchment, Cornwall, including hydrological model development and climate and land use scenario modelling. Stimulus for narrative public engagement. Publicising project locally and seeking feedback. Most significant outcome/impact: Lead to improvements to public engagement strategy to develop 'bite-sized' science as part of DRY.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Drought project presentation at Freshwater Ecoservices Workshop organised by British Council, in S Florianopolis Southern Brazil Santa Catarina State, Brazil
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation based on DiCaSM model results to show the impacts of the land use practices on the hydrology, this activity provided an opportunity of research collaboration with the researchers from different Universities of Brazil and the UK. Most significant outcome/impact: Collaboration and publicizing DRY project and CEH models internationally
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Dry project at HayFestival transmission event
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Took part in event organised by Hay Literary Festival and NERC called Transmission ll. Information from the DRY project was incoroptaed into a story wrotten by author Patrice Lawrence and an animation by Chris Houhton. These were presented at the Hay Festival. Sarah Ayling and Lindsey McEwen took part in a broadcasta and converstaion with the authors as part of the Hay Festival.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://www.hayfestival.com/green-hay/hay-festival-transmission-ii

Description	ENDOWS Environment Workshop CEH Wallinford (11 May 2017)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	40 scientists, regulators and NGO participants met to consider ways of thinking about drought and the natural environment and to inform the ENDOWS phase of the UK Droughts and Water Scarcity Programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Ebbw Catchment Local Advisory Group,LAG Drought science update, Ebbw valley, Wales
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Ebbw catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG meeting - Drought science update, Ebbw valley, Wales
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Local stakeholders, academics from DRY consortium, Welsh water, EA, Council Environment Officers. Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Eden Catchment Mesocosm Experiment site visit
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Field visit to demonstrate the grassland mesocosm experiments and discuss the potential results after the dry 2018 summer. Methods of drought mitigation by farmers and land owners was discussed around the question "is this what climate change will be like?" .Farmers and land managers, Scottish Wildlife Trust, SEPA, SNH, LAG members and public.attended. Most significant outcome/impact: Sharing drought research methods and exchanging information on potential mitigating actions for farmers and land owners to deal with future drought, and further research needs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Eden Catchmnet Local Advisory Group, LAG meeting Drought Risk Scenario Modelling, Fife, Scotland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on drought risk modelling under climate change scenarios for the Eden catchment. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback on how to communicate drought with a diverse group of stakeholders.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017,2018

Description	Eden DRY-LAG meeting 4
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This was a periodic workshop to share news of the ongoing project research and seek views from local stakeholders. The stakeholders represent residents, public sector bodies, charities and businesses in the Eden catchment. As previously, we began with the latest results of our hydrological modelling, leading to a discussion about the range of modelling techniques used - their strengths and limitations. We undertook a scenario-ing exercise with participants to gauge their views on drought scenarios and shared the results of narrative work to obtain further insights and reactions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Eden DRY-LAG meeting 5
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was a periodic workshop to share news of the ongoing project research and seek views from local stakeholders. The stakeholders represent public sector bodies, charities and businesses in the Eden catchment. As previously, we began with the latest results of our hydrological modelling, leading to a discussion about the range of modelling techniques used - their strengths and limitations. This part of the research is near complete now and was received with significant interest. We also presented for the first time results of crop experiments, leading to discussion of implications for future crop growing choices. We welcomed for the first time members of the Eden Angling Association and engaged in significant discussion on the links between farming, climatic variation and the state of the river and its fish. Poor fish numbers are a significant concern for the anglers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Eden River Walk with Cupar Heritage 16/9/2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	River walk along the river Eden in Cupar, organized with Cupar Heritage. Dual purpose: to provide an opportunity to learn about and discuss relationship between local watercourses and the local community against a backdrop of climate change, and gauge opinions about vulnerability and catchment management. Overwhelming feeling that drought is not a concern given the rainfall presently observed, the lack of evidence of summer drought to date, the water supply from Glen Devon - a wetter area to the west of the Eden, and also the role of the aquifer in maintaining river flow. More concern about vulnerability to flood risk. Digital stories captured as contributions to DRY Project story archive.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=37444415254

Description	Eden catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG meeting - Drought Risk Scenario Modelling, Fife, Scotland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on drought risk modelling under climate change scenarios for the Eden catchment. Presentations and discussions about the DRY project utility. Production of story boards about future actions to mitigate drought, and to add to the DRY utility. Attended by National stakeholders, academics from DRY consortium, Local organizations, council members, SEPA and Scottish Water, Scottish Wildlife Trust. Feedback on how to communicate drought with a diverse group of stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Eden catchment final Scottish Stakeholder and Local Advisory Group meeting, Balmalcolm, 31/1/2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was the final presentation in the Eden catchment, to present research findings to Scottish and local stakeholders. The results of the hydrological modelling (representing climate change scenarios) was the main item of interest and sparked considerable interest, in terms of how we present hydrological change, its impacts, and the assumptions used. Further to the meeting, some changes to the presentation style of some of the outputs were made, and these will be fed in to a publication. There was considerable interest in the modelling from local farmers, Scottish Water and SEPA.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Endows Showcase event (14th March 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	This was the first ENDOWS showcase event where all of the outputs from the Water scarcity program was showcased to a wide audience with a range of interests. The media was reporting about presentations from key speakers. Members of the DRY project presented their findings, I Grove reported results from the agricultural mesocosms, and debate/discussions were held with the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://aboutdrought.info/drought-and-water-scarcity-programme-showcase-event/

Description	Engaging Primary School Children in Citizen Science
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	To engage primary school children in citizen science research by examining the impacts of climate change and drought on tree ecology on their school grounds. The research undertaken in the project gave students: an example of a current scientific study; allowed them to explore ways in which science contributes to decision-making for more sustainable futures; and met numerous objectives of the national curriculum. A motivational talk was presented to the whole school during assembly which looked at how the leaders of this engagement activity became scientists and how others might pursue a career in the sciences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	European Society for Risk Analysis Conference (Bath) - organised session with five papers from DRY project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Paper 1: Drought risk management: Developing a drought narrative resource in a multi-stakeholder decision-making utility Lindsey McEwen, Ragab Ragab, Mike Wilson, Joanne Garde-Hansen, Martina McGuinness, Mathew White, Timothy Taylor, James Blake, Nevil Quinn and the DRY project consortium Paper 2: Getting the conversation going: engaging farmers in exploring agricultural drought risk in the River Fowey catchment, Cornwall, UK Michael Horswell, Ivan Grove, Liz Roberts, Natasha Constant, Paul Satchell and Nevil Quinn (Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK; Crop and Environment Research Centre, Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire, UK). Paper 3: Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: Exploring communications on water scarcity in large corporate organisations Jonathan Morris and Martina McGuinness (University of Sheffield, UK) Paper 4: Understanding drought risk science: The role of citizen science in engaging volunteers and school children. Emma Weitkamp, Sarah Ayling, Margarida Sardo, Natasha Constant and Lindsey McEwen (Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience, and Science Communication Unit, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) Paper 5: Communicating drought risks & engaging the public Adam Corner; Chris Shaw, Lindsey McEwen and Emma Weitkamp (Climate Outreach; UWE, Bristol)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://programme.exordo.com/sra2016/

Description	Farming community outreach event, Freuchie, 20/1/2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Outreach for local farming community, with Dr Ivan Grove as lead speaker presenting results of crop experiments. Much discussion about past climatic changes. Main conclusion was that for the next 50 years, farmers in NE Fife would do well to continue in existing mix of agricultural activities as at present: mostly cereals and vegetable growing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=37730764733

Description	Fife Eden - DRY LAG meeting 6 (31st January 2019) - held jointly with Scottish members of national stakeholder group
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Mutual knowledge exchange (science, stories, scenario-ing) as part of the DRY research process. DRY team participants were from University of Dundee, University of Sheffield and CEH Penicuik and Wallingford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Fife Show Public Engagement 2017 (20th May 2017)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This event provided an opportunity to engage with the public, farmers, and farming and environment organisations for a day. Engagements took the form of 'off road' interviewing, capturing of narrative 'sound bites' or micro-narratives about drought and water practices, and carrying out activities for children on 'hidden water in food'. The DRY team was in the Education tent, and hence there was also engagement with other organisations engaged in building local capital (e.g. the potato industry; local environment trust).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://fifeshow.com/

Description	Filton Community Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Having discussions with individuals around drought helped them remember how they cope(d) with drought and raised awareness about future drought events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Filton Community Garden Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A workshop with attendees from an allotment group and a community garden in Filton, incorporating a presentation, discussion around drought science materials and group story production. Participants identified future weather/water changes and consider what measures they would take to adapt.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Final LAG Meeting & Scottish SCG meeting in Eden Catchment 31st Jan 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"The aims of this meeting are: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Eden • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Eden catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Eden catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Final LAG Meeting in the Bevills Leam catchment 28/02/2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The aims of this meeting are: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Bevills Leam • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Bevills Leam catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Bevills Leam catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Final LAG Meeting in the Bevills Leam catchment 28/02/2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	"The aims of this meeting are: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Bevills Leam • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Bevills Leam catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Bevills Leam catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Final LAG Meeting in the Don catchment 8th March 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	"The aims of this meeting are: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Don • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Don catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Don catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Final LAG Meeting in the Ebbw Catchment Area 23rd Nov 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"The aims of this meeting are: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Ebbw. • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Ebbw catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Ebbw catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Final LAG Meeting in the Fowey Catchment 11th Oct 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"The aims of this meeting are: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Fowey • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Fowey catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Fowey catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Final LAG Meeting in the Frome Catchment 15th Nov 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	"The aims of this meeting are: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Frome • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Frome catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Frome catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011,2018

Description	Final SCG Meeting 27th March 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This Stakeholder Competency Group is working with the full project team as research partners in mutual knowledge exchange. It involves people with national roles in decision-making for drought and water scarcity. The impact is that these individuals and their organisations are engaged with/ contributing to the thinking in our research project right the way through the project. This means that any impact is on-going.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.dryproject.co.uk

Description	Fourth International Visual Methods Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A presentation about 'Thinking in systems: digital storytelling, knowledge hierarchies and environmental narratives'. An innovative approach to narrative was proposed, taking the position that narrative can be understood as 'system'. The presentation explored how a systems approach helps deliver understanding in a trans-disciplinary research context, allowing previously unheard voices and experiences to enter the 'official' discourse with equal authority, creating a space to build bridges across disparate languages, data and cultures of enquiry, expert and lay knowledge as part of a system of narratives about drought. The presentation also proposed the digital storytelling practice, within the context of the DRY (Drought Risk and You) project, as a methodology to connect personal stories with science, dismantle knowledge hierarchies and stimulate active citizenship.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Fowey Catchment Local Advisory Group , LAG Drought Risk Scenario Modelling, Cornwall
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share land use, climate change and catchment hydrological management scenario results from the DRY drought risk modelling, with opportunities to interactively explore specific stakeholder areas of interest and provide accessible summaries of outputs for the non-technical to improve drought risk and drought mitigation communication methodologies. This event led to Improved strategies to mitigate drought risk and a broader understanding of the multifaceted interlinked nature of drought risk and mitigation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Fowey Catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG Drought science update
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Fowey catchment Final Workshop Drought Risk Scenario Modelling - Cornwall
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share land use, climate change and catchment hydrological management scenario results from the DRY drought risk modelling, with opportunities to interactively explore specific stakeholder areas of interest and provide accessible summaries of outputs for the non-technical to improve drought risk and drought mitigation communication methodologies. Attended by general public, local stakeholders and academics from DRY consortium. Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to mitigate drought risk and a broader understanding of the multifaceted interlinked nature of drought risk and mitigation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Frampton Cotterell Allotment Groups Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A workshop with attendees from two allotment groups in Frampton Cotterell, incorporating a presentation, discussion around drought science materials. Participants identified future weather/water changes and consider what measures they would take to adapt.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Frome Catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG Drought science update, South Gloucestershire
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Frome Forum
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	To raise awareness of the project and update interested parties of progress made locally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Frome catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG meeting - Drought science update, Yate, South Gloucestershire
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. The meeting was well attended by Local stakeholders, academics from DRY consortium, Local organizations, council members, Residents, Environment Agency, Bristol Water company and local Councillors. Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	GROW Colombia DS training in Bogota
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Journalists, policy makers and students were trained to apply digital storytelling in their field. Digital Stories produced during the PARAMO, PARAGUAS, DRY projects were used to talk about the methodology and address local and global environmental issues. The event was organised in collaboration with the Earlham Institute with the support of the British embassy in Colombia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Go Wild! Nature Festival, Ebbw Vale
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Having discussions with individuals around drought helped them remember how they cope(d) with drought and raised awareness about future drought events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	How will the Fenland be in 50 years time? Storyboarding Workshop with the cartoonist John Elson
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"During this community storyboarding workshop participants were invited to imagine future water stories about climate change impacts in the Fenland in the next 20/50 years. At the workshop, scientists and experts from various Universities talked about droughts and climate change, and how to communicate and engage communities. They were supported by the cartoonist John Elson and by other creative practitioners to make their own storyboard that will be then developed into a booklet of cartoons. Project team members were contacted by some of the participants after the workshop because they wanted to share their opinion about the activity. Their feedback was very positive because they experienced how to trigger their creativity to imagine future impacts of climate change in the area. A few of them expressed that was challenging to understand the scientific data presented during the first half of the day, but that they understood better their meaning (and the complexity of climate change projections) after having developed their storyboard."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	How will the Fenland be in 50 years time? Storyboarding Workshop with the cartoonist John Elson
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	During this community storyboarding workshop participants were invited to imagine future water stories about climate change impacts in the Fenland in the next 20/50 years. At the workshop, scientists and experts from various Universities talked about droughts and climate change, and how to communicate and engage communities. They were supported by the cartoonist John Elson and by other creative practitioners to make their own storyboard that will be then developed into a booklet of cartoons. Project team members were contacted by some of the participants after the workshop because they wanted to share their opinion about the activity. Their feedback was very positive because they experienced how to trigger their creativity to imagine future impacts of climate change in the area. A few of them expressed that was challenging to understand the scientific data presented during the first half of the day, but that they understood better their meaning (and the complexity of climate change projections) after having developed their storyboard.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Impact of climate change on water Resources availability
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Climate change is a hot topic nowadays. I was invited and sponsored by the UN Organization for Food and Agriculture, FAO to give a presentation in Cairo water Week, October 2019. The topic included possible occurrence, frequency, and severity of future drought events as well as the impact on water resources availability. The gap between future water supply and demand was of interest to the participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.google.com/search?q=Cairo+water+Week+2019&rlz=1C1GCEU_enGB863GB863&tbm=isch&source=iu&ic...

Description	Impact of future climate and land use changes on water resources availability at catchment scale: Final results of "DRY" project. Presented at Oxford University, Ragab R & Afza, M. March 21, 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The final modelling results of the "DRY" project was presented by the PI, Dr. Ragab Ragab (details are given in the Key Findings section).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/62475921/delegatepack-droughtconference-20-21march2019

Description	Impact of reduced rainfall on the growth and development of plants in British semi-natural grassland: a rainfall manipulation study; Jill Thompson, Sarah. Presentation at Drought conference, University of Oxford, UK and Nevil Quinn.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings on grassland drought from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Dissemination of research to wider than academic audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Impacts of the climatic change on the hydrology of the Eden catchment in Scotland, UK using DiCaSM model approach-submitted to the European Geophysical Union, EGU
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Abstract has been accepted and drought results will be shared at EGU 2018 conference, which will provide an opportunity to share the results with a wide range of audience at international conference and to promote CEH research activities at international level. Most significant outcome/impact: Possible research collaboration and Publicising project and CEH models internationally. Source: URL https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-9346.pdf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Invited Conference Panel 'Memory Studies Association' Madrid June 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Development of a new strand of research to the Arts and Humanities based on water and media. A key part of the Memory Studies International Conference June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/

Description	Invited Talk: Liquid memory and water environment activism, Memory Studies Association Conference, Copenhagen, Dec 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The paper offered examples of art/media/memory activism in Brazil and the UK on drought, flood and water management as interventions from the perspective of water itself and its ability to remember where it once was.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/copenhagen-conference-2017-program

Description	LAG meeting in the Pang catchment
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Participants introduced themselves and shared their interests about drought and water scarcity. Professor Lindsey McEwen introduced the Scenario-ing exercises for the Pang catchment and explained the main objectives of this exercise: • Scoping the variables likely to change over different timescales in Pang catchment (e.g. land use, demographic, governance and water use scenarios) • Encourage discussion about tipping points/ critical thresholds for particular activities in the Pang catchment as a way of building tailored indices. Project team members explained that In DRY's current work we are scoping the possible characteristics of the web-based decision-support utility. Stakeholders gave feedback on a selection of websites which may have some of the characteristics that the project team might want to consider.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	LAG meeting in the Pang catchment 18/02/2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	"The aims of this meeting were: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Pang • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Pang catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Pang catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	LAG meeting in the Pang catchment 18/02/2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The aims of this meeting were: • To share progress with the DRY project including an update on the scenario-ing within the drought risk modelling for the Pang • To explore further how we can use scenarios for thinking about possible adaptations to future drought in the Pang catchment - using storyboarding • To discuss how we might firm up local drought impact indices for the Pang catchment drawing on local knowledge • To seek feedback on current status of the DRY decision-making utility • To establish what additional knowledge sharing would be useful for DRY-LAG members
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	LOST FEST community festival, Lostwithiel, Cornwall
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Having discussions with individuals around drought helped them remember how they cope(d) with drought and raised awareness about future drought events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Libraries Digital Story Screening
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Sharing of stories with hope to gain local knowledge and get discussion about drought.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Liguori, A., Wilson, M., McEwen, L. J. and Roberts, L. Learning around 'storying water' to build an evidence base to support better decision-making in UK drought risk management
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at D&WS Programme Conference About Drought. Drought and Water Scarcity: addressing current and future challenges, University of Oxford, UK 21st March 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://aboutdrought.info/

Description	Liguori, E., McEwen, L. J. and Wilson, M. Co-designing an online 'Utility Tool' to bridge science and community knowledge through storytelling
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association MeCCSA, Annual Conference, January 2020. Brighton, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Lindsey McEwen*, Liz Roberts, Antonia Liguori, Mike Wilson and DRY Consortium 'Daylighting the hidden': interdisciplinary reflections on theory and practice of storying drought
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at RGS-IBG Annual Conference 28th August 2019. London, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Local Advisory Group meeting held at Harper Adams University
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The DRY project (Drought Risk and You) is exploring how science and narrative can interact in drought-risk decision-making.. On the 24th May 2016, the DRY team has invited farmers and others with interests in drought impacts on crops (including the NFU and United Kingdom irrigation Association) to visit crop experiments being undertaken at Harper Adams University. During the day, we are keen that farmers have the opportunity to share their memories, experiences and knowledge about the impacts of drought and water scarcity on their farming so that their experiential knowledge can come into play with the evidence from the scientists. In scene setting, Dr Ragab Ragab (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford) will discuss our drought risk modelliing with its implications for agriculture. The farmers and the DRY team will then visit the crop experiments and discuss the wider impacts of drought and water scarcity on Wheat, Barley, Triticale, Durum Wheat, Quinoa, Perennial Rye Grass and Lucerne. Dr Ivan Grove (Harper Adams University) will share the results of his first year of mesocosm experiments, within controlled water regimes comparing including a 50% reduction in rainfall from the Central England 50 year average rainfall and rainfall based on the rainfall for the CO2 high emissions scenario for 2050. The experiments are planned to continue for three years - with crops being rotated as per field use the rainfall patterns continuing throughout that time. The crops will experience water deficit from year to year to mirror both winter/spring and summer/autumn predicted changes. This field visit will be followed by group discussion about the implications of this research for the UK agriculture sector, business and the public . Key questions include: Is agricultural drought risk management about changing the water regime of existing crops or changing to new crops or indeed both? The use of new crops not only has implications for UK agriculture but also involves changes in diet of the UK population. The event will be filmed by JackPerksPhotography and shared online as a prompt for further discussion after the visit. The DRY project is working with a range of stakeholders on the impacts of drought and water scarcity in seven case-study catchments - the Cornwall Fowey, Bristol Frome, Welsh Ebbw, Wiltshire Pang, Bevills Leam in the Fenlands, Sheffield Don and the Fife Eden.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/

Description	Local Advisory Group meeting in the Bevills Leam catchment and visit to Pumping Station
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A member of the project team recapped the activity done in the third and final year of crop mesocosm experiment at Harper Adams and participants actively participated to discussions asking more information and final results as soon as the experiments will be completed. Additionl discussions where facilitated during a screening of digital stories produced in the area. The project team, in collaboration with national and local stakeholders, has completed a SWOT analysis of the online narrative resources listed below. This discussion will influence the way in which the decision-making utiliity tool will be designed/developed as one of the main outputs of DRY Project: • Resources produced by USGS Californian drought visualised with open data http://cida.usgs.gov/ca_drought/ • Biology of Story: Biology of Story: http://biologyofstory.com/#/ • Storymaps: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/gallery/#s=0 • Historypin : http://www.historypin.org/en/ • After the storm: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive/after-the-storm/#/dear-future-disaster-survivor • Guardian interactive: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/may/26/firestorm-bushfire-dunalley-holmes-family • Storycorps: https://storycorps.org/ /
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Local Advisory Group meeting in the Bevills Leam catchment and visit to Pumping Station
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"A member of the project team recapped the activity done in the third and final year of crop mesocosm experiment at Harper Adams and participants actively participated to discussions asking more information and final results as soon as the experiments will be completed. Additionl discussions where facilitated during a screening of digital stories produced in the area. The project team, in collaboration with national and local stakeholders, has completed a SWOT analysis of the online narrative resources listed below. This discussion will influence the way in which the decision-making utiliity tool will be designed/developed as one of the main outputs of DRY Project: • Resources produced by USGS Californian drought visualised with open data http://cida.usgs.gov/ca_drought/ • Biology of Story: Biology of Story: http://biologyofstory.com/#/ • Storymaps: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/gallery/#s=0 • Historypin : http://www.historypin.org/en/ • After the storm: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive/after-the-storm/#/dear-future-disaster-survivor • Guardian interactive: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/may/26/firestorm-bushfire-dunalley-holmes-family • Storycorps: https://storycorps.org/ / "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Local Advisory Group, LAG regular meetings every 6 months at the 7 study catchments
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	In the Dry project we hold 6 monthly regular meeting at each study catchment: Bevils Lean, Fowey, Don, Eden, Frome, Ebbw and Pang. These meeting include the stakeholders, general public, the local Environment Agency officer, the local water company officer, the local farmers, the local Environment enthusiasts, small businesses, local school representative and local ex professional hydrologists. We present the modelling results, identifying problems and gap in our information and understanding. These often lead to a debate and most of the times, we receive feedback and extra support from the LAG. In 2016, a member of the Pang catchment LAG organized a guided tour to the gauging stations and showed where the stream flow of the Pang can be affected by the River Thames during the high flow periods. This also was followed by receiving reports on the historical flows at several gauging stations from a new member of the LAG. Example of last year meeting March 2016-February 2017: Stakeholders meetings i. Presentation to the national Stakeholders meeting at UWE on June 9, 2016. ii. Presentations every 6 months to local Stakeholders. Local Advisory Group "LAG" meetings: ? Eden catchment: May 19, 2016 and February 6, 2017, SCG meeting , February 7, 2017 ? Pang catchment: July 6, 2016 and February 17, 2017 ? Fowey catchment: February 18, 2016 and November 1, 2016 ? Bevills Leam catchment: July 5, 2016 and January 17, 2017 ? Frome catchment: June 7, 2016 and January 24, 2017 ? Don catchment: March 7, 2016 and October 11, 2016 ? Ebbw catchment: July 4, 2016, January 19, 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014,2015,2016,2017
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/

Description	Lostwithiel Environment Group Event
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DRY project hosted a series of presentations from local river-related stakeholders. Discussion was had about drought science materials developed by the project team and drought impacts/adaptations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Marius Conference 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A presentation to introduce the DRY (Drought Risk and You) project, specifically on the social science aspects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	McEwen, L. J. Disaster resilient initiatives in the UK"Flood Memory, Flood Narratives, Local Knowledge and Community Resilience
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Invited Keynote: School of Architecture and Planning, Delhi. 24th April 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	McEwen, L. J. Research and Knowledge exchange: learning from Sustainable Flood Memories and DRY (Drought Risk and You) projects
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at the National Trust Riverlands conference, 25th February 2020 Bristol, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	McEwen, L. J. and DRY consortium DRY: Drought Risk and You: Integrating science and narratives: a new interdisciplinary approach to supporting drought mitigation strategies.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presentation at the University of Dundee, 12th February 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	McEwen, L. J. and DRYconsortium DRY: Drought Risk and You Integrating science and narratives: a new interdisciplinary approach to supporting drought mitigation strategies
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Presentation at Reading Business Climate Action Network. 26th February 2020. Reading, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	McEwen, L. J. and the DRY consortium Integrating science and narratives: a new interdisciplinary approach to develop drought mitigation strategies.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Presentation at D&WS Programme Conference About Drought. Drought and Water Scarcity: addressing current and future challenges, University of Oxford, UK 21st March 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://aboutdrought.info/

Description	McEwen, L. J. and the DRY consortium DRY: Drought Risk and You. At 'Building UK Climate Resilience through bridging the quantitative-qualitative data divide'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at Meteorological Office, Exeter: 12th December 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Mcewen, L. J. Panel session: Reframing the discourse around drought and water scarcity
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Panel session at About Drought Download conference. Royal Society, London. 7th November 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://aboutdrought.info/

Description	Meeting with NFU Newmarket
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Third sector organisations
Results and Impact	Meeting with the NFU and UKIA to discuss the development of a 'water strategy' for England, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Multi-stakeholder engagement around drought and water scarcity in seven case study catchments in England, Scotland and Wales
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Seven catchment stakeholder groups are operating through six monthly face-to-face meetings and virtual communication (through individual listservs). We are partnership working in seven catchments - the Fowey (Cornwall), Bristol Frome, Ebbw (Welsh valleys), Wiltshire Pang; Bevill's Leam (Fenlands), Sheffield Don and Fife Eden. The purpose is to engage in longitudinal knowledge exchange (science and local knowledge) as a means of progressing our science-narrative methodology within the DRY project. These groups are active participants in the project - so follow-up one-to-one engagement is also taking place. The outcomes and impacts will evolve as the project progresses. In the early stages, the focus has been on drought science - local knowledge exchange, and sharing understandings of narrative approaches in research, knowledge exchange and decision-making.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Narrating Science in Public
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The presentation discussed the role of narrative in evaluating science communication initiatives, including citizen science and drought-science-narrative workshops. The presentation contributed to debates about the role of narrative for learning and evaluation in different science communication contexts and identified how different audiences respond to creative evaluative methodologies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Narratives and Alternative Stories Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"Project team member Antonia Liguori and singer Sharron Kraus presented a paper about ""From Personal To Collective: Singing Water Stories In the UK Exploring Environmental Narratives Through Digital Storytelling and Songwriting in DRY Project"". The paper was a performative presentation, drawing upon the form of the 'Radio Ballad', in which micro-narratives captured during the events interwove with the two songs inspired by those narratives. They both received a variety of questions from the audience at the end of their paper and also after the conference. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.academia.edu/34490358/From_Personal_To_Collective_Singing_Water_Stories_In_the_UK._Explo...

Description	Narratives of Water: An Overview of the DRY Project (visit to UNESP, Brazil)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	Overview of how 'narrative' and storytelling can be used to engage stakeholders in water scarcity and to explore the function and practice of Brazilian participatory water councils as a model for the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/sprint_fapesp_success/

Description	Narratives of water: an overview of the DRY project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Overview of how 'narrative' and storytelling can be used to engage stakeholders in water scarcity and to explore the function and practice of Brazilian participatory water councils as a model for the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Nuffield Student Research Placements August 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	5 sixth form students studied at UWE on topics related to the DRY project. Two students studied the effect of drought conditions on colonisation of the grass Yorkshire Fog by Mycorrhizal Fungi (dryproject.co.uk/citizen-science/looking-at-mycorrhizal-fungi) . Three students studied historic and local rainfall patterns and the effect of the DRY project rainfall shelters on incident rainfall. Students presented their results at a presentation evening at Bath University where the head of research from Nuffield Foundation attended.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/drought-science/investigating-drought-simulation/

Description	Outreach to school children (Jill Thompson) . Preparation for the Hay festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Preparation for the Hay festival. Developing a story for teenagers, about drought. Working with a children's book author. In preparation for public performance and recording at the Hay festival
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.hayfestival.com/home

Description	Oxford House Historical Society, Risca
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	To gain local drought stories/increase project visibility
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Pang Catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG Drought science update, Oxfordshire
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017

Description	Pang catchment Local Advisory Group, LAG meeting - Drought science update, Sheepdrove, Oxfordshire
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on progress with drought risk modelling, with opportunities to co-develop methodology via feedback on potential drought impact indices and future climate, land use and water management scenarios. Attended by Local stakeholders, academics from DRY consortium, Thames water, EA, River Trust, Flood Group and locals. Most significant outcome/impact: Feedback from stakeholders to ensure the impact indices and scenarios are locally relevant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Park Farm Open Day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Researchers from the project team invited visitors to the Frm Open day to share their stories and memories about local drought or flooding issues. Local farmers and general public were very interested in knowing more aboout the project and enjoyed the porcess of sharing their memories and local knowledge. The organisers just called the project team to invite researchers to participate again in 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.parkfarmthorney.co.uk/2017-open-farm-gallery

Description	Park Farm open day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Researchers from the project team invited visitors to the Farm Open day to share their stories and memories about local drought or flooding issues. Local farmers and general public were very interested in knowing more about the project and enjoyed the process of sharing their memories and local knowledge. The organisers just called the project team to invite researchers to participate again in 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.parkfarmthorney.co.uk/2017-open-farm-gallery

Description	Participation in a Local Advisory Group meeting and presentation of Agricultural mesocosm results (Bevills Leam, Cambridgeshire) 28th February 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	The meeting is a local advisory group meeting for people and interested parties. The meeting has several purposes: Collect information and narratives, discuss the progress of the DRY project and the Utility which is being built, present information from agricultural mesocosm experiments on crop response to reduced rainfall based on climate change scenario, discuss future plans and interactions. This was a small meeting which included several members of the DRY team from UWE, CEH, Loughboro University and Harper Adams University, plus local growers, NFU, Wildlife trust, local archivists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Patchway Allotment Group Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A workshop with attendees from an allotment group , incorporating a presentation, discussion around drought science materials. Participants reflected on differences in water use across different countries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Peninsula Public Health Network, CPD event on Climate Change and Health
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A CPD event to inform local health practitioners of potential health impacts of climate change - and subsequent demands on health services.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Podcast with Royal Geographical Society to promote Drought Myth Busters and other learning resources from DRY Project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	A podcast with Professor Lindsey McEwen and the Royal Geographical Society to talk about the DRY project and to promote the full DRY Utility resources.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/professor-lindsey-mcewen-and-the-dry-utility-resou/

Description	Policy making discussions on the UK Bricks and Water flood policy
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Expert contribution to Policy Connect events Sustainability priorities for the new Parliament All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group, All Party Sustainable Resource Group, Carbon Connect, the Westminster Sustainable Business Forum and the Sustainable Resource Forum Feb 2020 Sustainable Drainage Systems and Green Infrastructure (10.03.20, 10.00-12.00) - This roundtable will explore methods for controlling surface water runoff, requirements for SuDS in new development and options for adoption and retrofit of SuDS at the property-level. Chaired by Baroness McIntosh of Pickering. Property Flood Resilience for New and Existing Homes (25.03.20, 10.00-12.00) - This roundtable will review the forthcoming code of practice on property flood resilience and discuss best practice for flood resistance and resilience in vulnerable communities. Chaired by Ruth Jones MP (TBC)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/research/bricks-water-plan-action-building-homes-and-managing-water...

Description	Poster presentation at European Geosciences Union, EGU: Impacts of the climatic change on the hydrology of Eden catchment in Scotland, UK using DiCaSM model approach
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Description, purpose, outputs impacts: Abstract has been accepted and drought results were shared at EGU 2018 conference, which provide an opportunity to share the results with a wide range of audience at international conference and to promote CEH research activities at international level. Conference was attended by University academics, post graduate students, environment Agencies, water authorities, researchers, Funding organizations, Publishers and consultancy firms. Most significant outcome/impact: Possible research collaboration and publicizing DRY project and CEH models internationally
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-9346

Description	Poster: Developing the DRY (Drought Risk and You) project's Catchment Local Advisory Groups (DRY-LAGs) (McEwen, L., Blake, J.R., Grove, I., Roberts, L., Liguori, A., Sardo, M., Taylor, T., McGuinness, M., Thompson, J., Ragab, R. and Black, A.)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to communicate and mitigate drought risk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation 8th International Conference on Building Resilience, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-16 November 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Bryan, K. , Ward, S. , White, M. , Taylor, T. and Roberts, L. (2018) Exploring the sources and receptors of health impacts of drought in the UK: A narrative approach. In: 8th International Conference on Building Resilience, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-16 November 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/38544/

Description	Presentation Cardiff 17-19th Oct 2018 "Is volunteering limiting the impact of citizen science? A study of the motivations of participants and what they gained from participating"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Martin, C. and Sardo, M., 2018. "Is volunteering limiting the impact of citizen science? A study of the motivations of participants and what they gained from participating". Science in Public 2018, Cardiff, 17-19 December 2018. (oral presentation)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation at Cairo Water Week, Egypt, October 27 2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Keynote Speaker to Cairo Water Week. The Presentation was entitled " Global Changes Impact on Water Resources: Possible adaptation and mitigation measures"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017,2018,2019,2021
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToGk_s7qRlQ&t=52s

Description	Presentation at Climate Change Conference COP26, Glasgow, UK October 29 2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Invited Keynote Speaker to the Climate Change Conference COP26, Glasgow, UK. Presentation entitled: "Agricultural Water Management under Changing Climate"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhz23QncY0

Description	Presentation at Curiosity Connections Conference (Bristol)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A sort presentation, as part of a panel, at the Curiosity Connections Conference. The Conference aimed to bring together teachers, STEM experts and researchers working in education and/or engagment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://curiositybristol.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/curiosity-connections-conference-programme-2017...

Description	Presentation at Saudi Water Week, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 7, 2022
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Invited Keynote Speaker presentation entitled " Management of Water Resources For Irrigation: Issues, Approaches, and Policies" in workshop 7: Irrigation Sector; Development Policies and Plans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A2%D9%86

Description	Presentation at a Workshop - Curiosity Connections Bristol UWE Feb 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A presentation on the DRY project at Curiosity Connections workshop at UWE in Feb 2019 for school science teachers and people who offer educational resources to schools. Teachers and professionals. Sarah Ayling demonstrated the resources produced for schools by the DRY project. Raised awareness of the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://curiositybristol.net/

Description	Presentation at the Drought and Water Scarcity Conference in Oxford 21 Mrch 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Project team member Antonia Liguori gave a paper on behalf of Mike Wilson, Liz Roberts, Lindsey McEwen and the DRY consortium. The presentation is about Learning around 'storying water' to build an evidence base to support better decision-making in UK drought risk management.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/school-of-geography-and-the-environm...

Description	Presentation at the International Digital Storytelling Conference in Zakynthos, September 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DRY project team members Mike Wilson and Antonia Liguori gave a paper on "Hidden Voices Around Drought in Rural and Urban England Exploring how to combine Digital Storytelling and Songwriting to trigger unexpected narratives in DRY Project". In this paper they compared two separate events that they organised, one in rural Cambridgeshire - 'The Reasons in the Fens' - based on a traditional form of conflict resolution applied in Sardinia (Italy) until the late 60s; and another in Sheffield - 'Water Stories of Sheffield'. In both cases they combined storytelling practices with songwriting to trial a creative process that enables individual storytellers to 'see' their thoughts, feelings and concerns translated into and represented by a 'community song'. Songwriter Sharron Kraus performed one of the two songs and shared her reflections about this specific creative process.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/school-of-geography-and-the-environm...

Description	Presentation at the International Digital Storytelling Conference in Zakynthos, September 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DRY project team members Mike Wilson and Antonia Liguori gave a paper on "Hidden Voices Around Drought in Rural and Urban England Exploring how to combine Digital Storytelling and Songwriting to trigger unexpected narratives in DRY Project". In this paper they compared two separate events that they organised, one in rural Cambridgeshire - 'The Reasons in the Fens' - based on a traditional form of conflict resolution applied in Sardinia (Italy) until the late 60s; and another in Sheffield - 'Water Stories of Sheffield'. In both cases they combined storytelling practices with songwriting to trial a creative process that enables individual storytellers to 'see' their thoughts, feelings and concerns translated into and represented by a 'community song'. Songwriter Sharron Kraus performed one of the two songs and shared her reflections about this specific creative process.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation by M. Afzal on " Seeing the unseen: The Value of water" at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad in Pakistan on the 23rd of August 2022. He used slides from DRY papers in context of 2022 drought in UK/Europe. This event was organized by WWF Pakistan.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The conference on " Seeing the unseen: The Value of water" at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad in Pakistan on the 23rd of August 2022. The results obtained from DRY project papers in the context of the 2022 drought in the UK/Europe. This event was organized by WWF Pakistan. The results are of great importance to the international community and have similarities with other drought events elsewhere. The knowledge shared at this conference could bring future collaboration with organizations presented in this meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Presentation. Challenges of communicating Drought and Water Scarcity in Britain. ECREA, Lugano 1 - 3 November 2018.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Weitkamp, E., Ramirez, P., McEwen, L. (2018). Challenges of communicating Drought and Water Scarcity in Britain. ECREA, Lugano 1 - 3 November 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation. Drought? What Drought? Drought and Water Scarcity in Britain. Science in Public, Cardiff 17-19 December, 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Weitkamp, E., Ramirez, P., McEwen, L. (2018). Drought? What Drought? Drought and Water Scarcity in Britain. Science in Public, Cardiff 17-19 December, 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Pubic engagement events in Sheffield (walk by the river and storytelling/songwriting workshop)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"The 2017 programme of events followed on from 'A Visual Walk by the River Don' held in November 2016, which attracted 20 members of the public and stimulated the discussion of drought issues in the Sheffield region, as well as wider considerations of water management within the Sheffield. This programme of events began in March 2017, including second river walk by the Don in May 2017, and a summer event in 2017. The initial launch event gave the opportunity for people living in the Don catchment to participate in the citizen science events lead by the University of West England (UWE), working with Sheffield University as lead for research and engagement in the Don catchment. 2 day Launch Event: A spring fieldsite open day and training session to support new and returning citizen science volunteers (March/April 2017). Held at the experimental fieldsite at Ingbirchworth, this half day event offered volunteers the chance to get hands on experience and collect data on grassland vegetation and pollinators under simulated drought conditions. Followed by a public facing event enabling members of the public to engage with a university field experiment. A short walk around the reservoirwas accompanied by stories from the project team and local people of the long-standing challenges of maintaining a consistent supply of water to the city of Sheffield. Attendees were encouraged over lunch to reflect upon the role that water plays in their life, and a local musician developed a song based on these reflections. The second eventwas a river walk event in May 2017 that replicated the successful river walking event in November 2016. This half-day event consisted of a morning walk followed by lunch and live music session at the Riverside Pub in Sheffield City Centre. This featured the first public playing of the song produced during the launch event. Held in Sheffield, this event was open to the general public and visitors. The song, and reflections from participants at this event were recorded. The walk was organized to coincide with Sheffield 'Pint of Science' week. A concluding late June event at the Ingbirchworth field site including a site visit, lunch and screening of the songs and stories produced during the course of the event series. Participants expressed very positive feedback: they enjoyed the activity especially beacuase (by applying creative approaches) they experienced how to look at the city where they live through different lenses. "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Public Engagement Don Catchment
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Information exchange discussion of potential drought indicators river walk, tree measurements in Graves park, follow up and reporting back on narratives and songs as communication from June science day. Development of skills and experience of field work. Opportunities for discussion of drought and information exchange. Discussion of songs and means of communication and drought information exchange.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Public Health England presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	This was a presentation by Prof M Wilson to a small group of senior members of the Extreme Events and Public Health Team at Public Health England to discuss our work on storytelling and environmental/health policy, in relation to DRY and Project ASPECT. It was agreed that there may be further opportunities for collaboration and we should keep the dialogue open.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Public engagement - Fife Show 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	We took a stall in the Education Tent at Fife Show to engage visitors in our project, seek views on our findings to date and recruit future participants. There was a gratifying level of engagement beyond initial contacts - people generally exhibited an open-mindedness to the central concepts of the research. Some farmers were able to inform us about changes in practice which they were adopting for other reasons but which impacted also on water demand and conservation. 14 participants agreed to make themselves available for further interview at a later date.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Public engagement events in Sheffield (walk by the river and storytelling/songwriting workshop)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The 2017 programme of events followed on from 'A Visual Walk by the River Don' held in November 2016, which attracted 20 members of the public and stimulated the discussion of drought issues in the Sheffield region, as well as wider considerations of water management within the Sheffield. This programme of events began in March 2017, including second river walk by the Don in May 2017, and a summer event in 2017. The initial launch event gave the opportunity for people living in the Don catchment to participate in the citizen science events lead by the University of West England (UWE), working with Sheffield University as lead for research and engagement in the Don catchment. 2 day Launch Event: A spring fieldsite open day and training session to support new and returning citizen science volunteers (March/April 2017). Held at the experimental fieldsite at Ingbirchworth, this half day event offered volunteers the chance to get hands on experience and collect data on grassland vegetation and pollinators under simulated drought conditions. Followed by a public facing event enabling members of the public to engage with a university field experiment. A short walk around the reservoir was accompanied by stories from the project team and local people of the long-standing challenges of maintaining a consistent supply of water to the city of Sheffield. Attendees were encouraged over lunch to reflect upon the role that water plays in their life, and a local musician developed a song based on these reflections. The second event was a river walk event in May 2017 that replicated the successful river walking event in November 2016. This half-day event consisted of a morning walk followed by lunch and live music session at the Riverside Pub in Sheffield City Centre. This featured the first public playing of the song produced during the launch event. Held in Sheffield, this event was open to the general public and visitors. The song, and reflections from participants at this event were recorded. The walk was organized to coincide with Sheffield 'Pint of Science' week. A concluding late June event at the Ingbirchworth field site including a site visit, lunch and screening of the songs and stories produced during the course of the event series. Participants expressed very positive feedback: they enjoyed the activity especially because (by applying creative approaches) they experienced how to look at the city where they live through different lenses.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Public engagement stand at Fife Show 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	We took a stand in the Education Tent at Fife Show to engage visitors in our project, seek views on our findings to date and recruit future participants. There was a gratifying level of engagement beyond initial contacts - people generally exhibited an open-mindedness to the central concepts of the research. Some farmers were able to inform us about changes in practice which they were adopting for other reasons but which impacted also on water demand and conservation. Approximately 20 participants agreed to make themselves available for further interview at a later date.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The paper discussed the narrative methodology being developed in the DRY (Drought Risk and You) project and preliminary findings. Contact was made with academics conducting overlapping work who have since come to present work at the University of the West of England.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Researchers from DRY join Bristol Allotments Forum
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Researcher from DRY invited to advise Bristol Allotment Forum Water Review Group made up of allotment holders, Bristol City Allotments Officer and local councillors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	STEM Learning Resources Website - Page dedicated to DRY: Diary of a water superhero book, teacher notes and Water Saving Resources
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	The STEM Learning website have agreed to host the learning resources from the project with the following summary: This DRY Primary book and accompanying teacher guide focus on the story of a young girl and her passion for saving water. The story follows the journey of an ordinary schoolgirl in the UK, who transforms into a water superhero when a DRY summer is followed by a DRY winter. The teacher guide provides eight linked activities aimed at encouraging replication, understanding and discussion around local issues with water recycling. There is also a handy glossary, guide to water issues across the calendar year and a set of engaging information cards which are also provided in poster format. A Welsh language version of the book with accompanying teacher notes is also available.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/500660/dry-diary-water-superhero

Description	School visit (Bristol)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Students learned how to measure a tree and did some bark rubbings followed by tree identification. They were prompted to think what would happen to trees if there was no water available.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Science Communication Unit showcase
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Share project with invited local practitioners, postgraduate students and academic staff
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Science River Walk (Yate)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited speakers from local river organisations to discuss river issues with community and consider drought impacts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/river-walks/after-the-rain-walking-the-river-frome-at-yate/

Description	Science and stories as data (Wilson, M. and Blake, J.R.)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to communicate and mitigate drought
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Science in Public 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at the international conference "Science in Public". Presentation titled: Narrating Science in Public: The approach of an interdisciplinary project to create new reflective spaces
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Science-Storytelling River Walk (Oldbury Court)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited speakers from local river organisations to discuss river issues with community and consider drought impacts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Scottish Stakeholder Group Meetings (part of DRY's National Stakeholder Group)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was a face to face meeting with national Scottish stakeholders to share intelligence on drought, water scarcity and their management, and gain their input into the development of DRY's methodology and its outputs. This happens annually to augment the national DRY Stakeholder Competency Group that meets 6-monthly in Bristol.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2017,2018

Description	Seasonal Forecasting : Meeting user need (24-25 January 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	40 practitioners and researchers from the UK and Europe met to discuss adavances in seasonal forecasting of floods and droughts and consider how users needs in this area might be met.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Seminar based on Eden results at UFMS, Campo Grande, Brazil
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation based on DiCaSM & SALTMED model results, this provided an opportunity of research collaboration with the university, and received a very positive feedback. Most significant outcome/impact: Collaboration and Publicising project and CEH models internationally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Seminar presentation for Water Cultures, University of Hull 14th December 2022 - Creative experiments in bringing together stories and science to support better decision-making
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	This talk reflected on the methodological learning from creative experiments in science-narrative interactions within the interdisciplinary DRY (Drought Risk and You) project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://libguides.hull.ac.uk/c.php?g=685232&p=4927278

Description	Seminar to Sustainable Places Research Institute, Using science and stories as stimulus in decision-making: scenario-ing through 'bite size' drought science and storyboarding water practices Cardiff University, Friday February 15th 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Using science and stories as stimulus in decision-making: scenario-ing through 'bite size' drought science and storyboarding water practices Liz Roberts (on behalf of the DRY project consortium) This presentation outlines the successes and challenges of using a 'science-narrative' approach to engage communities around drought risk in the UK. Storytelling approaches are increasingly called upon in the UK to bring about more meaningful forms of participation and as part of public engagement processes to make research more accessible and interesting to wider, non-academic audiences. This is set alongside a call to democratise scientific knowledge and rethink the way that knowledge is produced, incorporating models of co-production.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Sept 2018 Volunteer Results Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	Dry project (citizen science volunteers) were shown preliminary results from the data they themselves had collected. The volunteers views were sought on what they thought the results meant and explained our views. Volunteers were asked what questions they would they like to see answered using their results.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://dryproject.co.uk/citizen-science/sharing-the-results-citizen-science-workshop/

Description	Sharing data about flowers and pollinators
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Data about numbers of flowers and pollinators at two field sites in S Gloucestershire, collected over three years as part of DRY project was shared with the conservation charity Buglife. These data will be added to their on going national studies into the numbers of pollinators and changes in those numbers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Sharing information about plant species
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	Data about plant species occurance at two fieldsites in S Gloucestershire were shared with the S. Gloucestershire Rare plants group. The site is in an area of s gloucestershire for w which there are few validated records. The data set included several new records and was of high enough quality to be added to the data set for inclusion in the next edition of the BSBI plant atlas of the British Iles.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	SiP Conference (Canterbury)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Present citizen science aspects of DRY project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Social Media
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I tweet about DRY related activities as part of my own social media itnerations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011
URL	http://twitter.com/e_weitkamp

Description	Society for Risk Analysis Europe (Maastricht Conference)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Conference presentation on using the eDPSEEA model for health risks from drought
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation - "The role of citizen science in engaging volunteers in drought risk science". Dissemination of academic data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.bath.ac.uk/ipr/news/news-0238.html

Description	St Blazey, Fowey and Lostwithiel Community Network Panel
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	To gain local drought stories/increase project visibility
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Stakeholder Workshop (Eden Local Advisory Group meeting 3)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was a periodic workshop to share news of the ongoing project research and seek views from local stakeholders. The stakeholders represent public sector bodies, charities and businesses in the Eden catchment. As previously, we began with the latest results of our hydrological modelling, leading to a discussion about the range of modelling techniques used - their strengths and limitations. We presented the results of some investigation into using water attenuation techniques to benefit drought as well as flood management - a number of problems were identified, and considered as the possible focus for future research. A presentation on drought resistant crops was well received. Group members were asked to consider ideas for the type of utility which could best assist water users moving forward.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Stakeholder meeting (Eden Local Advisory Group 2)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was a periodic workshop to share news of the ongoing project research and seek views from local stakeholders. The stakeholders represent public sector bodies, charities and businesses in the Eden catchment. We presented the latest results of our hydrological modelling, leading to a discussion focusing on the data inputs - water transfers between catchments for supply, borehole abstractions and irrigation demands in particular. An engaging discussion focused on how to engage people locally with the idea of drought risk in a climate change context -- a major issue is that flood is much more of a risk here than drought. We also discussed changes in irrigation demand and timing as a function of shits in the market for crops.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016,2017

Description	Stall at a conference (Bristol)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	I had a small stall at the conference Curiosity Connections, with materials we developed for schools.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://curiositybristol.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/curiosity-connections-conference-programme-2017...

Description	Storyboarding workshop in Reading
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	A scientist shared data on future impact of climate change in the area. A project team member explained how to use a storyboard to structure and share a story. A cartoonist facilitated the production of stories by participants. At the end they all discussed how this process could be applied in their own business to trigger interest around climate change impacts and better communicate drought risk. A few participants were from the local Water Company and they expressed their interest in applying a similar approach for their future communication activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Storyboarding workshop in Reading
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	A scientist shared data on future impact of climate change in the area. A project team member explained how to use a storyboard to structure and share a story. A cartoonist facilitated the production of stories by participants. At the end they all discussed how this process could be applied in their own business to trigger interest around climate change impacts and better communicate drought risk. A few participants were from the local Water Company and they expressed their interest in applying a similar approach for their future communication activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Storytelling As A Way to Access Lay Knowledge and Unheard Voices
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This was a presentation made as part of two-day workshop in Bangalore under the auspices of the AHRC GCRF Network on Sustainable Farming Practices in South India: Past and Present, hosted by Dr Sandip Hazareesingh from the Open University and the Green Foundation, a NGO based in Bangalore that works with women farmers to develop resources around sustainable organic farming. It included academics from both UK and India, NGO workers, policymakers and businesses, who came to discuss different approaches for learning from indigenous knowledge and practices.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/changing-farming-lives

Description	Student Field Trip
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Field visit for 25 physical geography students to look at and learn about the drought experiemnt set up as part of the DRYproject. Students were all taking a climatology/meteorology unit ; the main emphasis of the visit was the field instruemnetation, how it is set up, what is recorded, how the data are collected and what can be done with it afterwards. The field visit was followed by a practical class in which the students studied a sample set of data from the field site.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Supervision of Nuffield Placement Students
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Students supported by Nuffield Foundation worked at UWE for four weeks. They collected samples of soila nd roots from droughted and non droughted plots, extracted roots, stained for mycorrhizal fungi and quantified the levels of colonisation. Data were compared with information colledcted about the rainfall, soil moisture tension and temperature to see is there were any differences in colonisation of roots by fungi related to drought. The students wrote a report and made a poster. the report was sent to Nuffield foiundation and the posters displayed at a presentation evening held at University of Bath in October 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016,2017

Description	Talk about water use to Bath and North East Somerset allotment Association (Victoria Park, Bath)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk/presentation about water use, wateruse efficiency and water storage. This gave allotment committee members factual scientific evidence about which growing practices are most effective at conserving water. BANES allotment association were in process of applying for a three year grant to promote climate change resilience, as result of talk I was asked to review the application and suggest changes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Talk at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	DRY Project member Antonia Liguori presented some examples from the narrative work developed as part of the project. In particular she shared the outcomes of 'The Reaons' in the Bevills Leam catchment and shared her reflections on the use of storytelling and songwriting as a way of translating personal stories into a community song.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://mailchi.mp/umbc/inclusion-imperative-humanities-teaching-lab-february7-8-2019?e=98bd0bff5e

Description	Talk at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	DRY Project member Antonia Liguori presented some examples from the narrative work developed as part of the project. In particular she shared the outcomes of 'The Reaons' in the Bevills Leam catchment and shared her reflections on the use of storytelling and songwriting as a way of translating personal stories into a community song.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://youtu.be/Q6LxM7d7pXo

Description	Talk given to Green Party Tewkesbury Branch - How local knowledge can help manage floods and droughts in Tewkesbury.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Talk to Somerset Wildlife Trust "Drought Risk and You" Sept 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Talk describing the aims of the DRY project with special emphasis on hydrology and grassland experiments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Talk to allotment group (Bristol)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited to speak to Committee and site manager of Golden Hill Allotments about water use on allotments. Invited to make more detailed study of the site hydrology and give more detailed advice. Ongoing measurements of hydrology being made. Multiple conversations with plot holder. Invitation to present and site AGM. Thanks to UWE funding intern appointed in summer 2023 to study and map site hydrology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022,2023,2024

Description	Talking About the Weather and Other Stories: Storytelling As Creative Thinking About Climate Change
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This was a GREAT talk hosted by the British Council in India. I gave it to public audiences at the UK Pavillion at the International Kolkata Book Fair and at the Global Science Fair Kerala in Trivandrum. Also gave the talk to two large groups of students at the Modern High School for Girls in Kolkata and the Government College for Women in Trivandrum. There were many questions after the talks and there are plans for further workshop activity with the British Council for next year.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2024

Description	The Power of Storytelling for Voicing Arctic Issues to the Public
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Invited member of a panel at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik in November 2023. The panel was titled 'Hearing the Arctic's Call: The Time to Act as One' and consisted of an international group of scholars from Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands and the UK. The Arctic Circle Assembly is a major annual intergovernmental congress with a global audience of policymakers, academics, activist organisations and NGOs. There was a wide interest in storytelling at the Assembly and the talk resulted in lots of questions and post-panel discussions and new contacts. It is likely that a follow-up panel will convene at the 2024 Assembly.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Training CEH 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Training session in public engagement and science communication aimed at CEH researchers. Titled 'Communicating your research to others'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Tree Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Information about tree measuring activities linked to Drought Risk and you project given to attendees.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://thetreeconference.com/

Description	Tree Measuring Day (Chipping Sodbury)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Visit to Chipping Sodbury to measure trees and learn about drought impact on tree growth, and about ecosystem services and how these relate to trees. Raised awareness of drought and learned about the experiences of attendees.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Tree Measuring Day at Three Brookes Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke, Bristol
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	18 local people, including school children and younger children, came to the Three Brooks Nature reserve to learn how to measure trees, and why certain measurements are made. The ecosystem services provided by trees were discussed. The data collected will be input into the interactive online map and into Treezilla, to calculate the ecosystem service values of the specific trees measured. Two school pupils took part as part of a school project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	UWE Volunteering Fair
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Stand at a fair promoting volunteering opportunities to university students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Utopia Fair (London)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Participation in the AHRC Connected Communtiies Utopia Fair - interactive stall. During the Utopia Fair at Somerset House, we broadcasted a professionally made, edited film of 'The Reasons' (from the storytelling event in Ramsey) as part of an exhibition stand. We also promoted the activity run in the Bevills Leam catchment for DRY Project, and shared materials, available at the stand in both digital and hard copy formats. We invited visitors to watch some digital stories on iPads and share their ideas about potential approaches for conflict resolution within a community. Particular interest was reached by the song 'A River is a Snake' composed during the performative event organised in Ramsey in June, where people's stories were 'translated' into the lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tAgtQkafJc
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/utopia-2016

Description	Visit to Blise castle community garden
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussed water use on allotments and in gardens, problems and solutions associated with rainwater collection and distribution.Encouraged plot holders to apply to Bristol future parks fund to help with cost of restoring and upgrading the existing water storage system.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Visit to Long Ashton Community Allotment
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Visit to discuss water efficient growing methods and methods of rainwater harvesting and storage. Discussed need to keep water tanks covered and dark to prevent growth of algae. Discussed potential pathogens in water particualry at this site where water from a stream draining farmland and running behind houses is used for irrigation. All plot holders understand that the water is not potable.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Visit to Simms Hill Woods (British Science Week)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Awareness raising field visit to measure trees and learn about drought impacts on tree growth.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Visit to Talbot Road Allotments
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Visit to discuss water efficientt growing practices and methods of rainwater collection and storage. Suggested ways in which rainwater harvesting could be improved, eg by collecting water from site building at the top of slope and running water downhill to vegetable plots with excess into a stream/pond at bottom of the site. Some plot holders keen to trial a shared water harvesting system (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/11/1457) in collaboration with UWE staff if funds are available
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Visualising drought futures - bite-sized science as a stimulus for storyboarding (Blake, J.R. and Wilson, M.)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to communicate and mitigate drought risk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Visualising drought, Ebbw catchment as example (Afzal M, Andrew Black , Blake, J.R. & Ragab, R). Presentation at DRY (Drought Risk and You) Final Conference, University of West of England, Bristol, UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to communicate and mitigate drought risk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Volunteer Training
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Learning about the dry project and the type of measurements we are making lead to discussions about the methods, about precision in data collection and about climate change and its implications for farmers and gardeners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016,2017,2018

Description	Volunteer Training in Frome and Don catchments
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	In Don catchment 2 people were trained to work independently - collecting phenology data for the project. In Frome 20 + people trained to collect phenology data for the project with project team support.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Volunteers Facebook page
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	To stay engaged with volunteers in between volunteering events, to promote other similar citizen science, to attract new volunteers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016,2017,2018

Description	WS5 (ENDOWS) Communities Workshop 24th May 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	The ENDOWS 'Community' work stream i second stakeholder workshop's aim was to share the work done to date within the project, and to discuss how the work might be packaged as a set of resources that could help shift the discourse around drought and water security in the UK. The final resources will be promoted under the banner 'About Drought', working with a wide range of different people and organisations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Wate Company Brief - Emma Weitkamp
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Briefing document for water industry about drought communication.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://aboutdrought.info/

Description	Watef Network Conference 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation 'Allotments of the future' with Neil Phillips and Sarah Bunney at Watef conference 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.watefnetwork.co.uk/conference2020

Description	Webinar/Online talk to National Allotment Society Members - Water Harvesting on Allotments with Climate Change in Mind
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"The presentation and subsequent discussion supported new thinking and debate around rainwater collection and use on allotments. Attendees expressed particular concerns over the use of sprinklers on some allotment sites (sprinklers can waste up to 90% of the mains water) and the likelihood of water companies increasing water charges in the near future. The importance of encouraging water efficient growing methods and considering local conditions was emphasized. The potential to extract water from other sources such as wells, rivers and lakes via solar-powered pumps was considered. There was considerable interest in optimised rainwater collection, storage and distribution structures as a novel solution with requests for detailed costings and evaluation via an onsite trial.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.nsalg.org.uk/news/on-line-talks-for-national-allotments-week/

Description	Webinar: Conceiving Narrative as Data (Wilson, M., McEwen, L., Blake, J.R. and Liguori, A.)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to communicate and mitigate drought risk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Webinar: Grassland drought : Sarah Ayling with help of Jill Thompson
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings on grassland drought from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Disseminate research on grassland drought
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Weitkamp,, E., McEwen, L. J. and Blake, J. Engaging with drought myths: Cartoons as conversation openers.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at American Geophysical Union. November 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	When drought stories are drought myths: the challenge of myth busting (Weitkamp, E., McEwen, L., Blake, J.R. and Elson, J.)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Share methodology and findings from DRY research Most significant outcome/impact: Improved strategies to communicate and mitigate drought
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Winter plant identification workshop for citizen scientists
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	1 hour training session with a talk on plant ID and practical session to equip volunteers with practical skills
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Workshop at UWE Bristol 23 May 2018 - DRY weather and the allotment: What would you do on an allotment with less water?
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The project is keen to work with groups who may be the first to know of dry conditions in their communities: people who notice early when there is a lack of rain and when soils are dry - allotment holders were identified as one such group. The objective of the workshop was to understand how allotment holders use water in growing food (e.g. across cultures), and the seasonal demands that different crops have for water. It aimed to: Sharing stories and videos from allotment holders ? Ask 'What if?' about drought-risk in the future ? Share new science on forecasting and predictions ? Explore how a lack of water might change ways of growing ? Asking participant's advice on making useful resources for other allotment holders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Workshop in Fowey Catchment - 10th Oct 2018 Changing climate and water sustainability: How will changing climate affect your local environment in the future?
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A workshop was organised to share back some of the results of the research that has been conducted over the past four years in the Fowey catchment and to seek help from people who live locally to the River Fowey to consider the future potential impact of the climate/ water scenarios developed through the work. The aims of the work shop were to: ? Ask 'What if?' for different drought risk futures under different climate projections in the Fowey catchment. ? Share some of the new science on forecasting and prediction in easily accessible ways so we can think about what the implications might be for our local environment, blue and green spaces. ? Explore through discussion and activities what the hidden impacts of water scarcity and higher temperatures might be for environment and the non-human species we share our space with. ? Seek participants advice about what what options are available to mitigate or adapt to potential future impacts?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Workshop in Wantage 28th June 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A scientist from CEH presented data on future impact of climate change in the area. A project team member facilitated discussion with participants. Discussions enriched viewpoints and perceptions on local possible futures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Workshop in Wantage 28th June 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A scientist from CEH presented data on future impact of climate change in the area. A project team member facilitated discussion with participants. Discussions enriched viewpoints and perceptions on local possible futures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	World Environment Education Congress (WEEC) 2017 Canada
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at an international congress followed by group discussion. Networking.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Yate International Festival
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	To gain local drought stories/increase project visibility
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016