Actively anticipating the unintended consequences on air quality of future public policies (ANTICIPATE)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Sociology
Abstract
UK public policies have significant environmental, economic, social and political consequences over both near and distant time horizons, with potential impacts for years to come. Policy decisions are therefore required to be resilient to a wide range of future scenarios, necessitating an integrated approach to policy appraisal beyond the confines of single Departments, and across all tiers of national and local Government. ANTICIPATE will address this need, contributing to more robust and resilient policy making through improved awareness of the positive and negative consequences outwith the core areas of intended impact.
Poor air quality is considered by the UK Government to be "the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK". As well as human health, air pollution also has wider implications for the natural environment and for the economy. The draft Clean Air Strategy outlines ambitions for tackling this public health challenge by reducing UK air pollution, improving the environment and achieving economic growth. In recognition of the multiple interrelated sectors and transboundary relationships, its strategic goals are explicitly aligned for co-delivery with three core Government strategies: UK Industrial Strategy, Clean Growth Strategy, and 25 Year Environment Plan.
ANTICIPATE will enable an in-depth and systems based analysis of four policies selected from these headline Government Strategies, as well as a key health strategy, the NHS Long Term Plan. A horizon scanning exercise, followed by scoping discussions with policy makers, will be used to identify suitable policies, that is, those that are at an early stage in development and that are likely to have implications for air quality. We will aim to include a broad range of policies, from those with clear links to air quality to those whose impact is less obvious, and include both nationally and locally focused ones. For each of the selected policies, workshops will be organised with participation from policy analysts, stakeholders, and air quality researchers to explore the policy proposals and their potential impacts on air quality, either perverse or beneficial or both, with an emphasis on identifying implications that had previously been unremarked or under emphasised. The workshops will also identify synergies and conflicts with other policies with implications for air quality.
Through these workshops, ANTICIPATE will investigate novel applications of social science tools and techniques to enable rethinking and improvement of prospective policy ideas at the appraisal stage. The process will build a diverse, interdisciplinary network of stakeholders to apply a wide range of perspectives and expertise to the policies, probing implementation, possible outcomes, and the potential mitigation of adverse impacts and realisation of beneficial outcomes. The workshops may reveal issues and evidence gaps which will be shared with other researchers engaged in the Clean Air Programme and more widely to enable the academic research community to respond. A set of briefing papers focused on the conclusions from each individual policy exploration will be proactively disseminated to stakeholders from across the UK policy and research landscape.
Throughout the project, activities will be monitored and evaluated, enabling improvement of the process on subsequent iterations as well as feeding into the production of guidance on applying an effective policy exploration process. At the end of the project a Manual will be produced providing guidance on appropriate use of methods for assessing the implications of future policy, bridging the gap between academic research and policy formulation. This will be available in multiple formats to ensure it is accessible to a range of potential beneficiaries ranging from other academics to local and national decision makers.
Poor air quality is considered by the UK Government to be "the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK". As well as human health, air pollution also has wider implications for the natural environment and for the economy. The draft Clean Air Strategy outlines ambitions for tackling this public health challenge by reducing UK air pollution, improving the environment and achieving economic growth. In recognition of the multiple interrelated sectors and transboundary relationships, its strategic goals are explicitly aligned for co-delivery with three core Government strategies: UK Industrial Strategy, Clean Growth Strategy, and 25 Year Environment Plan.
ANTICIPATE will enable an in-depth and systems based analysis of four policies selected from these headline Government Strategies, as well as a key health strategy, the NHS Long Term Plan. A horizon scanning exercise, followed by scoping discussions with policy makers, will be used to identify suitable policies, that is, those that are at an early stage in development and that are likely to have implications for air quality. We will aim to include a broad range of policies, from those with clear links to air quality to those whose impact is less obvious, and include both nationally and locally focused ones. For each of the selected policies, workshops will be organised with participation from policy analysts, stakeholders, and air quality researchers to explore the policy proposals and their potential impacts on air quality, either perverse or beneficial or both, with an emphasis on identifying implications that had previously been unremarked or under emphasised. The workshops will also identify synergies and conflicts with other policies with implications for air quality.
Through these workshops, ANTICIPATE will investigate novel applications of social science tools and techniques to enable rethinking and improvement of prospective policy ideas at the appraisal stage. The process will build a diverse, interdisciplinary network of stakeholders to apply a wide range of perspectives and expertise to the policies, probing implementation, possible outcomes, and the potential mitigation of adverse impacts and realisation of beneficial outcomes. The workshops may reveal issues and evidence gaps which will be shared with other researchers engaged in the Clean Air Programme and more widely to enable the academic research community to respond. A set of briefing papers focused on the conclusions from each individual policy exploration will be proactively disseminated to stakeholders from across the UK policy and research landscape.
Throughout the project, activities will be monitored and evaluated, enabling improvement of the process on subsequent iterations as well as feeding into the production of guidance on applying an effective policy exploration process. At the end of the project a Manual will be produced providing guidance on appropriate use of methods for assessing the implications of future policy, bridging the gap between academic research and policy formulation. This will be available in multiple formats to ensure it is accessible to a range of potential beneficiaries ranging from other academics to local and national decision makers.
Planned Impact
The impact goals of this research are to:
* better understand the unanticipated consequences of public policies on air quality;
* develop methods to aid effective horizon scanning of future policy that takes account of impacts outside the core area of policy focus;
* enable rethinking and improvement of prospective policy ideas at the appraisal stage to take account of their implications for air quality, and wider through the application of the techniques developed here across the policy landscape;
* provide access to a multidisciplinary community of trusted academic experts and demonstrate the benefits of engaging this expertise in policy scoping and development.
The expected outcome is that, within or shortly after the completion of the project, one or more proposed government policies will be refined or reformulated in the light of the evidence brought to bear on it by ANTICIPATE. Thus the project has the ambitious but achievable goal of directly 'making a difference' to public policy in a way that reflects the ambitions of the Clean Air Analysis and Solutions programme.
Key stakeholders of ANTICIPATE are policymakers within national government, public agencies, devolved administrations and local authorities across the UK. The project will create an engaged and well-informed interdisciplinary network that will provide opportunities for co-design of future policy and research needed to support policy making. It will also raise awareness across local, regional and national Government of the multiple areas impacting air pollution and the importance of including air quality considerations in policy development.
The primary impact of ANTICIPATE will be on public policy as detailed in the above goals. The project will also deliver secondary impacts on:
* the economy, through:
- the development of mechanisms to enable more robust policy with fewer unintended and detrimental consequences, particularly on the environment, thereby delivering efficiencies for the policy process;
- a decrease in the detrimental and an increase in the beneficial impacts of policy on air quality and therefore ultimately an improvement in UK air quality. This leads to decreases in the public health burden and environmental damage resulting from air pollution; and
* society, through:
- the improvement in UK air quality and decrease in the associated public health burden;
- a better understanding of the differential effects of the impacts on vulnerable people of policies that result in poorer air quality.
In the longer term, project beneficiaries are the population of the United Kingdom. Through facilitating delivery of the Clean Air Strategy policy goal to halve health harms of air pollution, societal benefits include an increase in healthy years of life (0.7 year deficit on average currently), and reduction in associated wider economic costs of approximately £20Bn per year. These benefits will accumulate on an intergenerational basis, due to health effects of air pollution from birth to old age, and long-term time horizons for population impacts of policy decisions.
At the conclusion of the project, ANTICIPATE will have embedded environmental impact considerations within the policy development cycle, fostering a cross-departmental approach to policy making, thereby reducing duplication and mitigating adverse impacts of policy decisions. It will provide a transferable exemplar of the application of UKRI-funded research to deliver multiple environmental, economic and health benefits, supporting the delivery of UK Clean Air Strategy and associated policy ambitions.
* better understand the unanticipated consequences of public policies on air quality;
* develop methods to aid effective horizon scanning of future policy that takes account of impacts outside the core area of policy focus;
* enable rethinking and improvement of prospective policy ideas at the appraisal stage to take account of their implications for air quality, and wider through the application of the techniques developed here across the policy landscape;
* provide access to a multidisciplinary community of trusted academic experts and demonstrate the benefits of engaging this expertise in policy scoping and development.
The expected outcome is that, within or shortly after the completion of the project, one or more proposed government policies will be refined or reformulated in the light of the evidence brought to bear on it by ANTICIPATE. Thus the project has the ambitious but achievable goal of directly 'making a difference' to public policy in a way that reflects the ambitions of the Clean Air Analysis and Solutions programme.
Key stakeholders of ANTICIPATE are policymakers within national government, public agencies, devolved administrations and local authorities across the UK. The project will create an engaged and well-informed interdisciplinary network that will provide opportunities for co-design of future policy and research needed to support policy making. It will also raise awareness across local, regional and national Government of the multiple areas impacting air pollution and the importance of including air quality considerations in policy development.
The primary impact of ANTICIPATE will be on public policy as detailed in the above goals. The project will also deliver secondary impacts on:
* the economy, through:
- the development of mechanisms to enable more robust policy with fewer unintended and detrimental consequences, particularly on the environment, thereby delivering efficiencies for the policy process;
- a decrease in the detrimental and an increase in the beneficial impacts of policy on air quality and therefore ultimately an improvement in UK air quality. This leads to decreases in the public health burden and environmental damage resulting from air pollution; and
* society, through:
- the improvement in UK air quality and decrease in the associated public health burden;
- a better understanding of the differential effects of the impacts on vulnerable people of policies that result in poorer air quality.
In the longer term, project beneficiaries are the population of the United Kingdom. Through facilitating delivery of the Clean Air Strategy policy goal to halve health harms of air pollution, societal benefits include an increase in healthy years of life (0.7 year deficit on average currently), and reduction in associated wider economic costs of approximately £20Bn per year. These benefits will accumulate on an intergenerational basis, due to health effects of air pollution from birth to old age, and long-term time horizons for population impacts of policy decisions.
At the conclusion of the project, ANTICIPATE will have embedded environmental impact considerations within the policy development cycle, fostering a cross-departmental approach to policy making, thereby reducing duplication and mitigating adverse impacts of policy decisions. It will provide a transferable exemplar of the application of UKRI-funded research to deliver multiple environmental, economic and health benefits, supporting the delivery of UK Clean Air Strategy and associated policy ambitions.
Publications
Title | 3D installation of (section of) Covid Transport Trilemma Participatory System Map |
Description | A 3D version of the ANTICIPATE Transport Trilemma PSM was produced for a site specific exhibition to promote the project in the local region. The piece was created to give an artistic interpretation of one of the downstream sections of the map. It was displayed in the window of a community run initiative at the base of Guildford High Street with high footfall. The item was a sculpture created in fallen branches, with litchen on them (to symbolise clean air) and bespoke metal tags were suspended from the branches to illustrate the links and connections between EVs and air quality. The item was on display for circa 3 months, alongside the 3D version (on a Mac) and the 2D version. |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | The exhibition enabled the project to take part in No Car Day on Guildford Hight Street (22nd Sept) which meant we could use the Oculus headsets to help the public and other stakeholders to explore the map in augmented reality. Dr Alex Penn delivered a free talk to the public during the event. |
URL | https://www.zerocarbonguildford.org/ |
Title | Augmented Reality version of the Transport Trilemma Participatory System Map (for Oculus) |
Description | Prof Gilbert created an AR version of the Transport Trilemma System Map to enable users to walk around the map and explore interconnections and links, enabling the viewer to fully explore the system map and appreciate the complexity of Electric Vehicle useage. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Dr Alex Penn presented at the Anticipation'23 Conference (Arizona, USA in November). During this time she took the opportunity to show the AR version of the map (with Oculus headset) to various contacts and conference members. The AR version of the map has also been used with the public during No Car Day on Guildford High Street as outreach to promote the project and its outputs. |
URL | https://anticipationconference.org/ |
Description | We have been able to use a new mapping program (PRSM) to co-produce with stakeholders an in-depth system map to identify co-benefits of Electric Vehicles. We have also been able to identify potential negative outcomes of Electric Vehicles for policymakers to consider for future proofing policy on air quality. |
Exploitation Route | We have developed a software tool and accompanying method/process to help policy makers consider the unintended consequences of policy, including co-benefits and challenges, enabling policies that are more robust and have amplified positive societal impact. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Energy Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Transport |
URL | https://www.anticipate.ac.uk |
Description | Anticipate responded to the advent of Covid and its impact by engaging and maintaining its originally perceived audience. After engaging stakeholders to co-design a Participatory System Map of the Transport System in a post-covid landscape the project published its methodology and findings. The team also took advantage of a local community initiative with an installation about the project's outputs open to the public which attracted a footfall of 19,000 over a 2 month period. Further public engagement was undertaken in Guildford during No Car Day in September 22 with a public lecture and display. The project outputs and findings have been published in The Express online to a national audience. Dr Alex Penn publicised the project further at an international conference in Arizona. We are also in the final stages of producing a short video for the public about our work. |
First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
Sector | Environment |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Production and circulation of a Briefing Paper regarding the NHS App (NHS Long Term Plan ) 'Recommendations for mitigating air quality impacts associated with the 'NHS App'' |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://www.anticipate.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/ANTICIPATE-NHS-App-policy-briefing-document-27-April... |
Description | Submission of Briefing Paper to NHS Net Zero Call (Paper entitled -Recommendations for mitigating air quality impacts associated with the 'NHS App') |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/nhs-net-zero/ |
Description | Optimising air quality and health benefits associated with a low-emission transport and mobility revolution in the UK |
Amount | £508,012 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/V002449/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2020 |
End | 08/2024 |
Title | Strategy Components Report |
Description | In recognition of the multiple interrelated sectors and transboundary relationships, Clean Air goals are explicitly aligned for co-delivery with three core Government strategies: UK Industrial Strategy, Clean Growth Strategy, and the 25-Year Environment Plan. ANTICIPATE will enable an in-depth and systems based analysis of four policies selected from these headline Government Strategies, as well as a key health strategy, the NHS Long Term Plan, therefore contributing to more robust and resilient policy making through improved situational awareness of the unintended consequences of policies, outwith the area of intended impact. To facilitate this process, we have undertaken a comprehensive review of these four strategic documents to identify key policy characteristics, scope and relationships with sources and impacts of air pollution. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The tool has been the basis for the Team to choose the best UK Policies to focus on for the projects stakeholder workshops. This ensured a robust process was used to select the best policies to review for the duration of the project. This is openly available on the ANTICIPATE project website for reference to others and project stakeholders. Its creation and publication ensured a transparent process to select the chosen policies the project now focuses on. |
URL | https://www.anticipate.ac.uk/resources/ |
Description | Department of Transport Secondment (with TRANSITION Network) |
Organisation | Department of Transport |
Department | DfT, DVLA and VOSA |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The project Team have had ongoing discussions with Department of Transport regarding a secondment. DfT is a key end user for the Participatory System Map (PSM) 'Mapping the Covid-19, Carbon and Air Quality Trilemma in Personal Transport'. |
Collaborator Contribution | DfT is a key end user for the Participatory System Map (PSM) 'Mapping the Covid-19, Carbon and Air Quality Trilemma in Personal Transport' in response to the covid pandemic, which the organisation has contributed to developing with their expertise. Individual contacts have provided guidance on map development. |
Impact | Participatory System Map (PSM) 'Mapping the Covid-19, Carbon and Air Quality Trilemma in Personal Transport' |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Joint ANTICIPATE - TRANSITION Trilemma Workshop |
Organisation | University of Surrey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The TRANSITION Clean Air Network team was involved in setting the activity scope, selecting and inviting participants, producing relevant briefing materials, establishing the domain factors for participatory mapping. The ANTICIPATE team provided support for the aforementioned activities and methodological expertise for the participatory systems mapping process. |
Collaborator Contribution | COVID-19/Clean Air/Carbon Trilemma workshop series to undertake a Participatory Systems Mapping exercise among 8-12 invited experts including project partner representatives within the TRANSITION Clean Air Network (e.g. FirstGroup Plc, Sustrans, Oxfordshire County Council, Camden Council, Network Rail) |
Impact | This collaboration is ongoing and will provide outputs for the Department for Transport |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | TRANSITION Clean Air Network funding award NERC [ |
Organisation | University of Birmingham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | ANTICIPATE investigators (Gilbert, Moller, Hamilton) are Co-Investigators for the Clean Air Programme Strategic Priorities Fund Wave 2 Clean Air Network 'Optimising air quality and health benefits associated with a low-emission transport and mobility revolution in the UK' led by Dr Bartington. |
Collaborator Contribution | Activities undertaken within the ANTICIPATE research programme generated research ideas for the network proposal. |
Impact | NERC Grant Award (1 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2023) Value: £508,012. The main output to date is the launch workshop report 'Characterising Emerging Air Quality Challenges and Risks Associated with Transport Decarbonisation' |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | 2020 Annual UK Review Meeting in Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Nigel Gilbert presented to Academia and a wider audience regarding the ANTICIPATE project. Opening up general discussion and raising awareness of the project existence and aims. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.phe-events.org.uk/hpa/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=395401&eventID=899&CSPCHD=0020010000... |
Description | Air Quality and Climate Change Roundtable - Transport Professional Magazine |
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 | Virtual roundtable discussion on the subject of the climate challenge and improving air quality. Specific discussion points: * Whether the transport sector will be able to meet the 2050 net zero emissions target, and strategies for getting us there * The need to improve air quality, whether we should set targets and the role of clean air zones * The consequences of failing to make transport and mobility greener and cleaner * Priorities and possible solutions (eg electric cars, more walking and cycling, road pricing) * The role of governments, the transport sector and the public * The impact of Covid on environmental ambitions and travel behaviours, both short and long term |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | CIWEM (Chartered Institute of Environment and Water Management) Seminar (joint event with Sustainability West Midlands held on World Environment Day 2019) on 6th May 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Suzanne Bartington was invited by CIWEM (Chartered Institute of Environment and Water Management) to present regarding the project at a CIWEM Seminar (joint event with Sustainability West Midlands held on World Environment Day 2019) - This promoted the project and its aims and built further contacts to be potentially involved in stakeholder events. Outcomes were: 1) Request for further engagement with Sustainability West Midlands. (2) Telephone call with Larissa Lockwood (Global Action Plan) - Clean Air Champion roles |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.sustainabilitywestmidlands.org.uk/events/air-quality-breathing-our-last-05-06-19/ |
Description | Clean Air for All - Working together to improve the air we breathe for better health |
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 | Dr Suzanne Bartington was a key participant of 'Clean Air for All - Working together to improve the air we breathe for better health' held at The University of Birmingham in Feb 2020. The audience comprised of citizens, clinicians, chronic disease patients, civic sector and community groups. The events main outcome was the request for engagement with Primary Care Network (West Midlands). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/mds/events/2019/11/suzanne-bartington-Clean-Air.asp... |
Description | DecarboN8 project Conference 2021 - Session Presentation (Participatory System Mapping Workshop) online Sept 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | DecarboN8 conference titled: Place-based Decarbonisation for Transport. Dr Alex Penn ran a PSM session to use stakeholder input to develop a section of the Anticipate working map regarding EV's. This promoted Participatory System Mapping as a tool, a new programme developed by Prof Gilbert (PRSM) and the Anticipate project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://decarbon8.org.uk/decarbon8-conference |
Description | Dr ALex Penn and Anticipate outputs featured in University of Surrey bi-monthly e-letter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Penn discusses the Anticipate PSM output (Transport/Covid/Trilemma) and how EV's are driven more because their owners believe them to not harm the environment. In reality this causes more congestion, a knock -on effect of more pollution of other cars and the reality that EV's do produce harmful emissions on braking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://university.surrey.ac.uk/5HXG-PJN5-9FC1B1774588DD6A3IVNRQ7FE8B62743061CCA/cr.aspx |
Description | Environment Agency Air Quality Inequalities Project Webinar and Focus Group on Age - Wednesday 13th January 10am |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Suzanne Bartington presented Environment Agency Air Quality Inequalities Project Webinar and Focus Group on Age on behalf of Anticipate- Wednesday 13th January 10am |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Follow Up Joint Transition Anticipate Stakeholder Workshop (4th March 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Further development online of Participatory System Map (PSM) exploring the intended and unintended consequences of electric vehicles (EV) on air quality with key stakeholder input. Section of map pulled out of larger system map to aid key stakeholders with their decision making. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Introduction to project and research delivered at free event 'Guildford Car Free Day 22" by Dr Alex Penn |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Alex Penn gave a 30 minute presentation (with Q&A) "Taking a Whole Systems Approach to Transport Decarbonisation" as part of a free programme of talks on Guildford High Street on Car Free Day. It covered the Anticipate project and looked at the Transport Decarbonisation Map and its findings related to Electric Vehicles. It was advertised by University of Surrey and Guildford Borough Council. Representatives of both organisations were present. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.guildford.gov.uk/carfreeday2022 |
Description | Joint TRANSITION Anticipate Stakeholder Mapping Workshop (Initial) 11th Feb 2021 |
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 | Circa 15 stakeholders from organisations took part in an online Participatory System Mapping Session (PSM) to discuss the EV sector. This was building on a section of a larger system map intended to explore the intended and unintended consequences of future policy on air quality. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Online article promoting project findings in The Express newspaper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Alex Penn's quotes on the project findings were the feature of an article on Electric Vehicles in the Express newspaper (online) in the run up to COP27 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1692499/uk-ev-plans-dealt-blow-switch-electric-cars-traffic-c... |
Description | Oxford Air Quality Meeting- 10th January 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Suzanne Bartington participated in the Oxford Air Quality Meeting- held on 10th January 2020. Her participation in the event facilitated interest from consultancies in the ANTICIPATE project, thus making valuable contacts for future stakeholder events. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.oaqm.org/2020-conference |
Description | Presentation of ANTICIPATE Project to CECAN Project Team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Approximately 50 delegates related to the EPSRC funded CECAN project (Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus) were introduced to the ANTICIPATE project. This included academics from other institutions, professional Evaluators and policy makers. This widened project contacts and created further links to others working with and in UK policy-related roles. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation of ANTICIPATE project to PhD cohort at University of Surrey (Sociology Department) in November 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A presentation on the project was given to an audience of Sociology Post Graduates by the project RA, Valentine Seymour. This promoted the project to students and staff for further debate and collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Public Outreach event on Car Free Day in conjunction with ZERO Guildford and Guildford Borough Council |
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 | Part of the Anticipate Team took part in Guildford Car Free Day on Guildford High Street in conjunction with University of Surrey, Guildford Borough Council and ZERO Guildford. A manned stand was up for the duration of the day during a busy shopping period. The general public interacted with the project outputs. One main draw with the use of the oculus headset to enable people to explore the participatory system map of the Transport Decarbonisation Trilemma - which aimed to hemp people explore of Electric Vehicles are the 'solution' to air quality. Links were made which would not have been without the project being at the event and will be followed up post- event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.guildford.gov.uk/carfreeday2022 |
Description | SPF Clean Air Annual Conference 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented project to Wave 1 & 2 SPF Clean Air projects and partners (involved running an online hands on participatory system mapping session) Video produced to explain project with is on YouTube.com and project website as an outreach item. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ukcleanair.org/2021/06/23/spf-clean-air-annual-conference-working-in-partnership-for-cle... |
Description | STFC Air Quality Network Social Research and Air Quality Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | "How do social sciences undertake and interact with air quality research? What capabilities does STFC have to support social science research in this field? Can we build collaborations between different disciplines to address air quality challenges? At our online event, we heard from social scientists researching air quality, and from STFC departments with the potential to support these types of research. Participants discussed ways for STFC to work with social science, and more broadly the possibilities of interdisciplinary work to tackle air quality challenges. The notes from the discussions were reviewed and the following list of actions has been compiled, which SAQN will take forward in the coming months. Initiate a discussion with UKRI SPF Clean Air with regard to funding specifically for building new collaborations with a requirement for genuinely integrated physical and social science. Raise the issues, highlighted by the meeting, around funding panels' make up and difficulties in assessing interdisciplinary bids. Explore the possibility of a joint collaboration building workshop with the other SPF Clean Air networks, pooling resources to offer facilitated introductions to the different disciplines and potential funding pots for research that relates to the networks' objectives. Develop our understanding of how STFC capabilities can be applied to a variety of datasets, combining qualitative and quantitative data on aspects of air quality. An initial small scale meeting to be organised between key STFC representatives and social scientists with experience in data. This meeting will determine future steps in combining datasets. Continue to explore broader ways that STFC capabilities might be used in social research. Showcase more air quality projects involving social science to the network. We will invite members to post links to their research projects on the SAQN Discussion Board, allowing network members to ask questions and comment on the research. We will also take opportunities at SAQN meetings to further highlight existing research and funding opportunities." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.saqn.org/events/social-research-and-air-quality-stfc-social-sciences-and-saqn/ |
Description | School of Geography, University of Birmingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Suzanne Bartington gave a presentation to the School of Geography, The University of Birmingham on the ANTICIPATE project via Zoom (due to Covid). This opened up potential links across Departments regarding the areas of air pollution and policy life cycles for future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | TRANSITION Network Co-Investigators meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Alex Penn presented to the Transition Network regarding the ANTICIPATE project, leading to co-producing a workshop which was key to the ANTICIPATE outputs. By pooling resources, due to mutually aligned interests and objectives, both NERC funded projects maximised resources and contacts to work closely with Dr Suzanne Bartington's contacts at TfL to aid them with their planning for post-Covid mapping. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://transition-network.org.uk |
Description | The Royal Society - You and the planet: air |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Panel webinar hosted by the Royal Society and undertaken in collaboration with Manchester Science Festival https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/02/you-and-the-planet-air/ exploring the science of air quality and climate change, the impact air pollution on the planet and people's health. The event was live-streamed on the Royal Society YouTube channel and made available as a recording on the Royal Society website. Attended live by 520 viewers, with 90 questions submitted and over 2500 viewed the recording within a 24 hour period. The event led to several submitted questions which have since shaped new research ideas - for example with regard to impacts of domestic woodburning in the West Midlands region and introduction of 20 mph speed limits. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/02/you-and-the-planet-air/ |
Description | Webinar "The road to zero carbon post COP26 - where do we go next?" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Dr Alexandra Penn delivered a presentation on the Anticipate project and findings to circa 300 people for "TransportXtra" under theme, 'The road to zero carbon post COP26 - where do we go next?" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.transportxtra.com/tx-events/2617/the-road-to-zero-carbon-post-cop26-where-do-we-go-next- |