Biodiversity policy in the UK and the EU
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Politics
Abstract
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People |
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| Nicholas Worsfold (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Burns C
(2013)
Still saving the earth? The European Parliament's environmental record
in Environmental Politics
Clements CF
(2013)
Experimentally testing the accuracy of an extinction estimator: Solow's optimal linear estimation model.
in The Journal of animal ecology
| Description | This ESRC award was a 'discipline hopping' postdoctoral fellowship. The purpose of this scheme was to encourage postdoctoral researchers with training in one discipline (whether within the social sciences or outside) to spend the duration of the fellowship in an ESRC subject area in order to investigate and develop ideas, skills and collaborations at the interface with another discipline/field. An objective of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme was to enable fellows to to improve their research and related skills through additional specialised training and to secure long term employment in the HEI sector. This fellowship enabled a postdoctoral researcher with training in the ecology of biodiversity loss to spend 12 months in the Department of Politics at the University of York to develop research at the interface of ecology and biodiversity public policy. The fellow is currently a Lecturer in Environmental Science, where as course leader of an MSc in Environmental Management he benefits greatly from the skills, knowledge and interdisciplinary perspective developed during his Fellowship. Therefore an important result of this funding has been the personal development of the fellow and his employment in the UK HEI sector, where he is developing units within degree courses that draw upon both natural and social sciences. The fellowship also improved the fellow's research capability as a consequence of the training delivered in public policy research skills. The fellowship has enabled the development of a new research agenda for the fellow, exploring the way in which the use of markets has made its way into conservation policy and evaluating the way that ecological knowledge of the role of biodiversity in delivering goods and services has contributed to this change. The fellowship also contributed to the completion of a collaborative paper from a previous postdoctoral position on the European Parliament's environmental record and the development of work on predicting the timing of extinction. |
| Exploitation Route | I am planning to take forward my findings by publishing work resulting from the data collected during the award period. |
| Sectors | Environment |
| Description | I am not aware of impact beyond academia as a result of this grant. |