AGILE: Providing rapid evidence-based solutions to the needs of environmental policy-makers.
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Abstract
The Stern and Dasgupta reviews on the economics of climate change and biodiversity respectively make clear, wealth creation, ecosystem health, and quality of life are inextricably linked. The UK government is committed to showing global leadership in climate change and biodiversity (and in their intersection) building on commitment that will be made in 2021 for climate change at Glasgow (COP26) and biodiversity at Kunming (COP15). Furthermore, the UK government's 25-Year Environment Plan includes the pledge to leave the environment in a better state than it is in now, while the Environment Bill currently going through parliament commits the government to set legally enforceable targets for different areas including climate, air quality, water quality, land management and biodiversity. Within these broad areas, there are numerous decisions requiring scientific input that have to be made in short timeframes (6-12 months). However, Universities are adept at doing excellent research within the typical three to five years projects, and UKRI is highly skilled at selecting the most promising of these projects. This presents the problem of delivering interdisciplinary research (IDR) with stakeholders to address challenges and provide tangible outcomes and environmental solutions within much shorter public and private sector policy cycles. The challenge we identify for this call is urgency and rapid delivery of IDR to provide a clear path from discovery to translation and impact.
Our approach within AGILE is to build capacity within Oxford University to rapidly bring together IDR, and identify evidence-based solutions to major social and environmental challenges. AGILE is composed three overarching goals.
First is delivering a collection of Sprint projects, characterized by policy pull for their socio-economic importance, timeliness for policy and practice, co-creation with stakeholders, and researchers with the capability to communicate effectively across boundaries to adopt a whole systems approach. Goal 1 will deliver five central objectives: 1) Demand-led Sprint formulation through engagement with stakeholders, 2) Convene Sprint teams to set tangible outcomes and robust action plans, 3) Monitor and evaluate progress to accelerate projects ensuring optimal deployment of resources, 4) Creation of a body of knowledge on effective approaches to IDR and the capability of IDR researchers, to be embedded in the university culture and shared with UKRI, and crucially 5) Uptake partnerships and reformulation to ensure implementable solutions.
Second is to create a critical mass of IDR researchers, through 1) capturing lessons learned from these Sprints and translating them into training opportunities for the wider research community, 2) building a community of IDR researchers through shared learning and ongoing engagement with the programme and policy-makers, and 3) and enabling rapid development of AGILE teams creating capability and supporting career development.
Third is the AGILE legacy, of creating a culture shift in the way universities evaluate IDR and work towards ensuring the outputs of IDR are recognised as of equal value in recruitment and retention policies. This will ensure increased opportunities for funding and delivering excellent interdisciplinary research, with users, providing the evidence base for effective policy and practice, in a more realistic policy-cycle timeframe.
AGILE will enable transformational change in the way high-quality interdisciplinary research informs decision-making on how we manage the natural environment in a rapidly warming world.
Our approach within AGILE is to build capacity within Oxford University to rapidly bring together IDR, and identify evidence-based solutions to major social and environmental challenges. AGILE is composed three overarching goals.
First is delivering a collection of Sprint projects, characterized by policy pull for their socio-economic importance, timeliness for policy and practice, co-creation with stakeholders, and researchers with the capability to communicate effectively across boundaries to adopt a whole systems approach. Goal 1 will deliver five central objectives: 1) Demand-led Sprint formulation through engagement with stakeholders, 2) Convene Sprint teams to set tangible outcomes and robust action plans, 3) Monitor and evaluate progress to accelerate projects ensuring optimal deployment of resources, 4) Creation of a body of knowledge on effective approaches to IDR and the capability of IDR researchers, to be embedded in the university culture and shared with UKRI, and crucially 5) Uptake partnerships and reformulation to ensure implementable solutions.
Second is to create a critical mass of IDR researchers, through 1) capturing lessons learned from these Sprints and translating them into training opportunities for the wider research community, 2) building a community of IDR researchers through shared learning and ongoing engagement with the programme and policy-makers, and 3) and enabling rapid development of AGILE teams creating capability and supporting career development.
Third is the AGILE legacy, of creating a culture shift in the way universities evaluate IDR and work towards ensuring the outputs of IDR are recognised as of equal value in recruitment and retention policies. This will ensure increased opportunities for funding and delivering excellent interdisciplinary research, with users, providing the evidence base for effective policy and practice, in a more realistic policy-cycle timeframe.
AGILE will enable transformational change in the way high-quality interdisciplinary research informs decision-making on how we manage the natural environment in a rapidly warming world.
Organisations
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Lead Research Organisation)
- Lake District National Park Authority (Collaboration)
- James Hutton Institute (Collaboration)
- Green Alliance (Collaboration)
- The Food Foundation (Collaboration)
- NATURAL RESOURCES WALES (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- Technical University of Denmark (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (Collaboration)
- University of Leicester (Collaboration)
- Sustainable Development Solutions Network (Collaboration)
- Scotland's Rural College (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Cape Town (Collaboration)
- Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (Collaboration)
- ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW (Project Partner)
- Climate Change Committee (Project Partner)
- World Wide Fund for Nature WWF (UK) (Project Partner)
- BP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Project Partner)
- Biffa (Project Partner)
- Intnl Union for Conservation of Nature (Project Partner)
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (Project Partner)
- NATURAL ENGLAND (Project Partner)
- Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment (Project Partner)
- Ammonia Energy Association (Project Partner)
- Rockfield Software Ltd (Project Partner)
- Good Food Oxfordshire Ltd (Project Partner)
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Project Partner)
- LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (Project Partner)
- Orsted (Project Partner)
- HM Treasury (Project Partner)
- OceanMind Limited (Project Partner)
- Ikon Science Ltd (Project Partner)
- Lloyd's Register Foundation (Project Partner)
- ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS (Project Partner)
- DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY (Project Partner)
- National Farmers Union (NFU) (Project Partner)
- Dept for Env Food & Rural Affairs DEFRA (Project Partner)
- SUEZ Advanced Solutions UK Ltd (Project Partner)
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Project Partner)
Publications
Alvarez J
(2025)
Achieving the Finance Targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework: A Scenario Approach for the United Kingdom
in SSRN Electronic Journal
Asplet J
(2026)
Shear-Wave Splitting Measured for Permanent Reservoir Monitoring Systems: An Example From the Snorre Field
in Geophysical Prospecting
Atkins T
(2025)
A pragmatic framework for local operationalisation of national-level biodiversity impact mitigation commitments
in Environmental Science & Policy
Berenguer, E.
(2025)
Record burning of Amazonian flooded forests in 2023 and 2024
Bhasker Nair P
(2023)
33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering
Butler A
(2025)
Local people's preferences for housing development-associated Biodiversity Net Gain in England
in Land Use Policy
Chausson A
(2024)
Harnessing nature-based solutions for economic recovery: A systematic review
in PLOS Climate
| Description | The Agile Initiative has three goals that, taken together, encapsulate the programme's experimental nature and our whole systems approach. Key findings and achievements to date relate primarily to the first goal; findings from the interplay between all three will be reported on at the end of the programme. The first goal is to deliver solution-oriented science at a rapid pace through a new model of interdisciplinary research (Sprints). Since the programme started in early 2022, we have developed, tested and refined our Sprint model for producing timely and policy-relevant interdisciplinary environmental research, co-created with stakeholders. Iterations of 'calls' for new Sprints (summer 2023, spring and autumn 2024, and summer 2025), with the design of each call and guidance for researchers building on learning from the previous round, have resulted in funding for 18 Sprints, 11 of which are complete, and seven are ongoing. With additional time-bound funding between October 2025 and March 2026 we designed and ran a further call (autumn 2025) for 3-month science-to-policy projects grounded in the core Sprint criteria and aligned with NERC's strategic goals. Five have been funded and are underway. Listed below are key findings to date from the 11 completed Sprints. The Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Sprint examined how the UK can meet biodiversity targets while delivering social benefits and balancing economic development with nature restoration. It found that the DEFRA Biodiversity Metric may not adequately capture invertebrate diversity and abundance, that BNG should be aligned with access-to-nature targets, and that integrating ecological and economic data into BNG offset targeting can better mitigate biodiversity loss and support disadvantaged communities. The nutrient waste flows Sprint mapped organic waste and nutrient flows (particularly nitrogen and phosphorus) in Leicestershire to assess pathways towards a circular system and its technical, economic, and environmental benefits. It found that discharged wastewater is the largest nutrient loss within Leicestershire's processed waste streams, that significant inter-regional waste transport has economic and environmental impacts, and that there are clear business opportunities to strengthen regional nutrient management. The Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Sprint addressed the slow and uneven uptake of NbS in the UK to enhance their contribution to environmental and societal challenges. It developed an Opportunity Mapping approach to identify potential NbS sites across England, alongside a Funding Programmes Tool, Natural Capital Maps, an Ecological Monitoring tool, and a Recipe for Engagement guide to support collaborative and participatory implementation. The green ammonia for maritime shipping Sprint developed a port-level modelling framework to project 2050 fuel demand based on current routes and trade scenarios. It showed that supply networks can be regionalised around cost-efficient production and demand hubs, and that transition pathways can be enabled through 'green shipping corridors' linking strategic, high-demand ports. The offshore carbon capture and storage Sprint examined the balance between offshore CO2 storage capacity and risks to marine carbon stocks, using the Endurance site as a case study. It identified key evidence and regulatory gaps across the sub-surface, marine environment, and governance. Findings emphasised the need for independent scrutiny of storage licence applications, comprehensive assessment of blue carbon stocks using improved satellite data, and clearer legislative guidance on environmental exemptions following the 2023 Levelling Up and Regeneration Act. The Brazil Net Zero Sprint used a regional integrated assessment model to evaluate the role of national policies and NbS. It found that halting deforestation and enabling large-scale restoration could achieve net zero emissions around 2040. The study also shows that expanding NbS is more cost-effective than engineered options and could supply nearly 80% of Brazil's mitigation needs, while also enhancing climate resilience and biodiversity. The greenhouse gas (GHG) habitat emissions removal Sprint applied robust statistical modelling to quantify uncertainties in grassland and peatland emission factors, using Northern Ireland as a case study. It assessed confidence in the climate benefits of land-use changes, such as peatland restoration and biogenic methane valuation, providing stronger evidence to support environmental planning and restoration decisions alongside socioeconomic trade-offs. The Earth System Modelling (ESM) Sprint developed a scalable, robust algorithm to reduce the computational time required for ESM simulations. By accelerating spin-up in both land and marine models, it improves the efficiency of climate projections used to inform global environmental policy. The nature for mental health in schools Sprint evaluated the evidence for nature-based programmes (NbPs) in secondary schools as a response to mental health challenges. It combined systematic reviews, school assessments, interviews, and co-production exercises to develop a cost-benefit framework and policy recommendations. Findings showed some evidence of positive mental health and wellbeing impacts, though implementation is constrained by resource and logistical barriers. Economic analysis suggests NbPs are cost-effective long term as they reduce future reliance on high-cost specialist services. However, supporting their integration into whole-school strategies requires far greater cross-sector collaboration. The regenerative agriculture (Regen Ag) Sprint examined the ambiguity of Regen Ag and its potential to support environmental, social, and health goals in the UK food system. It found that Regen Ag's flexibility can empower farmers, foster innovation, and build resilience, but also creates governance and labelling challenges. Realising its benefits requires supply chain reform, supportive policy, transparent standards, improved assessment approaches, and cross-sector collaboration. Findings indicate that Regen Ag's value lies less in prescribing specific practices and more in strengthening the capacity of farming systems to balance trade-offs and respond to complex sustainability goals. The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Sprint examined UK biodiversity investments and the global impacts of UK finance. Overall, targeted regulation and international cooperation are essential to align UK finance with global biodiversity goals. Analysis of England's BNG policy shows that habitat banking models shape trade-offs between inclusivity and collaboration: for-profit providers broaden participation but limit landscape-scale coordination, while not-for-profits enable more strategic governance but engage fewer landowners. Market design therefore needs to embed collaborative governance to balance access to finance with collective ecological outcomes. BNG incentives are partly aligned with creating nationally important habitats in the right places via Local Nature Recovery Strategies, but stronger spatial incentives are needed. The Sprint therefore built a database of all the nature compensation funds so it delivers ecologically effective investments. Mapping overseas portfolios of six major UK banks found that UK finance, especially through services and manufacturing, drives land-use change, pollution, water stress and emissions, heightening biodiversity loss and financial risk abroad. Scenario modelling suggests that subsidy reform and green financial policies (e.g. mandatory nature disclosures and capital requirements), especially under coordinated alignment-based approaches, could significantly reduce these harmful flows. We have made significant progress towards our second goal, to create a critical mass of interdisciplinary researchers skilled in designing and delivering rapid, policy-oriented actionable research. To date, 135 former and current Oxford University academics have been heavily involved in Agile Sprints, governance and programme-level research, affiliated to 19 different departments and spanning all career stages. A further 21 researchers from other institutions have been directly involved with Agile research, as well as 49 government departments and non-academic partners from public, private and the third sector. This demonstrates the interest in the Agile experimental approach. In the last year we have delivered nine community building, networking and training events to further develop skills and facilitate knowledge exchange within this cohort. Agile has enabled mid- and early-career researchers to take on Sprint lead and co-lead roles, with mentoring in place, providing valuable leadership experience for researchers. Data from surveys and interviews with researchers and partners about experiences of using the Agile Sprint model is being collated and analysed for publication. Agile's third goal is to bring about research culture change to better value and reward rapid, solutions-oriented interdisciplinary research. Preliminary learning on enablers and barriers within Oxford University's academic and administrative systems, and where Agile-style research could further the University's strategic research culture goals, is being collated and shared with influential committees, working groups, communities of practice, and departments, as part of Agile's influencing action plan. Progress includes Agile's EDI Officer supporting the Research Strategy and Policy Unit's (RSPU) Equity and Inclusivity in Research Funding Working Group, which has designed and rolled out an EDI Responsiveness Matrix and Toolkit across the University to support fund managers, professional staff, and governance committees with the self-assessment of EDI in internal funding schemes. Learning from implementing Agile's Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) was shared in two workshops to encourage interaction and practice with the new tool. Learning is being shared with the funder, NERC, and other programmes under the Changing the Environment Award. |
| Exploitation Route | The degree to which the award's original goals have been met will be assessed at the end of the programme. Results of a mid-term review by NERC and internal monitoring indicate Agile is making good progress towards achieving these goals. The following examples demonstrate how outcomes of this funding might be taken forward and used, starting with the current state of play on Sprints. Previously reported on Sprints with no further new findings or uptake have not been included this year. Findings from the BNG and GBF Sprints were repurposed in light of planned changes to biodiversity considerations in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and shared at an event in July, 'How can we bring nature into public decision making?', that convened ecologists, economists and government officials to explore practical solutions to help embed biodiversity in public policy. The two Sprints then created a FAQ guide for parliamentarians on economic development and nature recovery that was made available in time for the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus launch in October. Separately, the GBF Sprint was invited to share relevant findings with the Nature Restoration Fund teams in Natural England and DEFRA to inform NRF implementation. Lead researchers from the Brazil Net Zero and fireproofing the Amazon Sprints were appointed as Deputy and Head (respectively) of the Oxford University delegation to COP30. Prior to COP, the researchers organised 'Forests and the Future: Brazil's Path to Climate Solutions,' hosted in partnership with the Embassy of Brazil to the UK. During COP, they shared their research findings to policy professionals and practitioners in Blue and Green Zone events, and media interviews. Post-COP, they brought learning back to the University in strategic events and expert commentaries examining how to take forward the climate-nature agenda given COP30's failure to produce a plan to support the mandate. Natural capital maps from the NbS Sprint continue to inform local councils in nature restoration planning, including Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. Most recently they were used in the formation of both North and East Yorkshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategies. The 'Recipe for engagement' is gaining traction in Scotland and has been cited by The Forth Rivers Trust 'Community collaboration for Holistic Landscape Regeneration and Communities', and SEFARI Gateway, Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation. The green ammonia for maritime shipping Sprint will be writing a joint policy paper on green ammonia and shipping with the CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change) as part of an ongoing informal collaboration. The ESM Sprint will shortly be producing a paper on the updated code to further embed the use of the algorithm and its guidance within the global ESM community. DAERA's recently published Draft Climate Action Plan cites research from the GHG habitat emissions removal Sprint. This research will likely be taken up by practitioners, policy makers and food industry representatives in Northern Ireland following an event hosted by the College of Agriculture Food & Rural Enterprise in March 2025 that delivered tailored discussion sessions for key audiences, including the wider Northern Ireland Executive and participants from the food industry, farming groups and rural communities. The DFE Sustainability and Climate Change Unit has expressed interest in publishing versions of the school case studies from the nature for mental health in schools Sprint, which will be adapted in line with gov.uk policy. The Sprint team shared and discussed their key findings in webinars with the wider DFE, and with schools and educators via the Oxford Education Deanery. Both events generated requests for outputs, further information and involvement. The Regen Ag Sprint co-authored its key outputs with its partners, The Food Foundation and The Green Alliance, who have also hosted and disseminated the outputs to capitalise on their contacts and policy influence. These findings are likely to be taken forward by the Sprint's large stakeholder network encompassing DEFRA, the public, private and third sectors, regulators and practitioner groups following their consistent involvement in shaping the Sprint. Looking forward, Sprints underway are likely to be taken forward as follows: A Sprint exploring place-based environmental governance is partnered with Natural Resources Wales (NRW), and co-creation with NRW has included weekly policy liaison meetings deepening trust and enabling joint shaping of research questions, case study selection, and emerging outputs. Case studies are being developed across South- East, Mid Wales, and North-West, each representing distinct governance dynamics and diverse on-the-ground experimentation. The research, supported by stakeholder insights, is demonstrating Wales's unique but currently under-recognised role as a 'live site' of innovative place-based work. The childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters Sprint team is refining analytical pathways around heat-food-security-violence links and exploring crop-growing season dynamics and drought timing. They are also expanding their policy engagement, building on momentum with UNICEF and the Gates Foundation, and preparing presentations to broader food-systems researchers across Oxford. The carbon budgets Sprint team has prototyped climate-policy levers, run a 1:1 agent-based macro model using UK population-level representation, and secured access to income and wealth microdata, which is now being incorporated into the modelling framework. Collaboration with their policy partner DESNZ has grown significantly. The Sprint has run two seminars for DESNZ analysts, delivered a briefing to the Environmental Audit Committee, and engaged a widening network of government analysts and senior stakeholders, indicating strong cross-government interest in the new modelling approach. The Net Zero education Sprint works closely with the DFE and David Ross Education Trust. Its Youth Advisory Board, school visits and blog for the British Educational Research Association have brought the research to the attention of schools and educators, and sharing of indicative findings with Oxford Net Zero has also attracted the attention of influential senior academics. The team is preparing a 'teach-in' webinar with the wider DFE which will further strengthen the likelihood of findings being used by the department. The fireproofing the Amazon Sprint collaborates with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Amazonian fire brigades, and Lancaster University. Fire scar mapping and analysis of 40 years of Landsat data have been completed to understand why the Amazon experienced two strong and consecutive fire seasons for the first time. This work has generated international visibility and strong policy engagement via events at and related to COP30 and the launch of a policy brief published by O Globo in English and Portuguese. Research is now underway to provide fresh insights into Amazonian fire behaviour and exacerbating conditions, and to characterise fire combat techniques in Amazonian forests. Practical recommendations generated will likely be shared and disseminated by the collaborating institutions and their networks to address this relatively new but globally critical environmental threat. A Sprint exploring coastal flood prediction is partnered with the Environment Agency and supports its Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) Plan by developing a new generation of flood-forecasting and risk-assessment tools. It aims to improve the accuracy of operational forecasts used to operate the Thames Barrier and provide a clearer picture of how flood risk will evolve through the century. These advances will enable the Environment Agency to strengthen the UK's resilience to weather and climate-driven flooding via approaches that can be used worldwide to protect people living in vulnerable coastal areas. A recently formed forest-food nexus Sprint is partnered with DEFRA and will explore how alternative deforestation-control pathways may affect agricultural output, trade patterns, livelihoods, and the UK's food systems. Once the preliminary findings are delivered, it is hoped the research outcomes will be taken up by the UK government, following the recent UK National Security Assessment which highlights how ecosystem degradation overseas can create risks and undermine national security through global supply chains. These examples also show emerging evidence of an "inter-Sprint ecosystem", where learning is actively transferred and applied across the community (not just captured in call documentation). For example, methodological and engagement learning from the NbS Sprint informed the design and delivery of the place-based environmental governance Sprint; similarly, there is a trajectory between the BNG and GBF Sprints. Learning from Brazil Net Zero has been taken forward in fireproofing the Amazon and the forest-food nexus, which act like a connected cluster of Sprints. Net Zero education is applying learning from nature for mental health in schools, for example in how to engage young people in the research. Programme Research Fellows' cross-Sprint involvement has also enabled rapid diffusion of practices and insights across multiple projects. This cross-pollination is reinforced through programme community sessions and mentoring. These interconnections demonstrate not only progress in policy areas, but also that learning is being used to improve research design, stakeholder engagement, and researcher development over time. In addition to dissemination, Agile activities are generating new relationships, follow-on collaborations, and concrete requests for further information that shape both Sprint delivery and the wider programme. Agile presentations and convenings (e.g. at Agile Showcase 2025, Oxford Real Farming Conference, a British Ecological Society symposium, the Meeting Minds conference, the Oxford Policy Engagement Network, and the Oxford Social Sciences Impact Forum) have led to follow-up conversations with policy, practice and philanthropy audiences, requests for briefings and outputs, and introductions that are being converted into new stakeholder partnerships for current and future research. These events also function as "translation moments", where emerging Sprint outputs are tested with non-academic users, refined, and then re-packaged into formats that partners can readily use (e.g., short briefings, FAQs, tools, and case-study narratives). Within Oxford University, the EDI work and the EIA for research has been taken forward by the University's Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact framework, as a supporting tool. As reported in the previous section, Agile's EDI work has also been taken forward by the RSPU Equity and Inclusivity in Research Funding Working Group. With regard to influencing the funding environment, Agile has shared high-level reflections with the NERC Changing the Environment team in July on the future of funding for strategic programmes like Changing the Environment, presented a poster at the NERC Council meeting held in Oxford in September, and participated in a session at NERC's Strategic Partnership Directorate's team day, sharing insights on researcher experiences, administrative practicalities, and contributed to discussions on systems thinking and responding to the growth agenda. Case studies from the mid-term review have been shared on the internal NERC Insights Hub. More recently, Agile contributed to a NERC Changing the Environment research culture workshop in February. |
| Sectors | Environment |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/ |
| Description | The following summary relates to emerging impacts and policy influence to date. Interest from decision-makers and academics in using the Agile Sprint model outside of the award is demonstrated by the non-Agile funded 'Grazing for Good: Rapid Review' project. This is a community led, interdisciplinary review of agri-environment policy on the Lake District High Fells which has taken inspiration from Agile's Sprint model of rapid solutions-oriented research to inform policy that is co-created with decision-makers. It is funded by the National Sheep Association, in partnership with local organisations including the Federation of Cumbria Commoners, Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association, West Lakeland Farmer-Led Nature Recovery CIC and Natural England. The research team consists of subject experts from Oxford University, the James Hutton Institute, Scotland's Rural College, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the University of Exeter. Programme level findings and outputs have also been used within the University, most notably Agile's work relating to EDI and research culture, including Agile's research Equality Impact Assessment. This has been shared with various academic departments and directly helped to inform and support the design and roll-out of an EDI Responsiveness Matrix and Toolkit to help fund managers, professional staff, and governance committees self-assess EDI in internal funding schemes. Agile Sprint research is beginning to appear in policy documents, including the House of Commons report on soil health (citing NbS Sprint research) and the 2025 DAERA-directed AFBI research work programme (referencing offshore carbon capture and storage Sprint research). Sprints are also aligning findings with emerging policy windows. The BNG Sprint, whose work was previously cited in POSTnotes and the EAC report on natural capital, convened a July event in London to inform debate on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB). Similarly, the GBF Sprint has informed discussions on nature credits and the Nature Restoration Fund under the PIB. Sprints with NGO stakeholders are achieving tangible policy influence. Research from the GHG habitat emissions removal Sprint informed The Wildlife Trusts' assessment of 60,000 hectares of peatland and wider restoration efforts, prompting discussions with DEFRA, DESNZ, UK CEH and the Climate Change Committee on peatland's role in achieving Net Zero. The work was also cited in DAERA's Draft Climate Action Plan. Researchers from the Regen Ag Sprint contributed written evidence to the 2025 Regenerative Agriculture POSTnote, and findings have been shared in Green Alliance and Food Foundation briefings. These are national level organisations whose reports are frequently referenced in national policy documents. Sprint research is also being taken up locally and regionally. Agile maps from the NbS Sprint informed North and East Yorkshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategies and will be cited in 2026 publications. The Sprint's 'Recipe for engagement' has gained traction in Scotland, cited by The Forth Rivers Trust and SEFARI Gateway. A pre-print of findings from the Oxfordshire research of the GBF Sprint prompted the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management to explore their use in practitioner training, and this research will be published on the Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership website. Sprint research is gaining global attention. A publication from the green ammonia for maritime shipping Sprint is cited in the World Bank's report 'Creating a Green Marine Fuel Market in South Africa', while the Earth System Modelling Sprint features on the Horizon Europe EERIE project website. Findings from the Brazil Net Zero Sprint research have been cited by Orbitas and the Science Media Centre following COP30. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2026 |
| Sector | Environment |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Agile Brazil net zero Sprint research citation in IIASA 2023 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-2023/credible-path-for-brazil-to-reach-net-zero-by-2050-depends-on-natu... |
| Description | Agile Nature-based Solutions Sprint participated in Oxfordshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy committees |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The Sprint team's Agile Opportunity Maps were used directly as input to the LNRS habitat map to help inform selection of suitable locations for nature recovery activities that have the maximum benefit for nature and people. See also: contribution to new or improved professional practice, 'Agile Opportunity Map layers used and wider guidance provided for Oxfordshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy'. |
| Description | Agile Opportunity Map being created for use in Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Surrey |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The maps will help Surrey to produce their statutory Local Nature Recovery Strategy habitat map. |
| Description | Agile Opportunity Map created for use in Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Shropshire |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The maps will help Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin to produce their statutory Local Nature Recovery Strategy habitat map. |
| Description | Agile Opportunity Map created for use in Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Somerset |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The maps will help Somerset Wildlife Trust to produce the statutory Local Nature Recovery Strategy habitat map. |
| Description | Agile Opportunity Map layers used and wider guidance provided for Oxfordshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The mapping layers provided helped Oxfordshire County Council to produce their statutory Local Nature Recovery Strategy habitat map more quickly and improved the quality of the opportunities mapped. Agile is attributed in all three local nature strategy draft documents (Description of Strategy Area, Statement of Biodiversity Priorities, Species Priority List) on https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/lnrs-phase3-consultation.; https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/environment-and-planning/local-nature-recovery-strategy. |
| URL | https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/environment-and-planning/local-nature-recovery-strategy |
| Description | Agreement to co-locate a Policy Liaison Officer in at DfT |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Biodiversity Net Gain - open letter to Ministers and the Chair of Natural England |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/BNG-Open-Letter_020322.pdf |
| Description | Brazil's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to nature based solutions (Nbs) |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Citation in Northern Ireland Draft Climate Action Plan 2023-2027 |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The work is cited in this report to expand and explain the context of different greenhouse gas reporting approaches in the context of climate change mitigation and meeting targets and legislative needs for extra considerations in the Northern Ireland context, section 4.7, p 46-47. |
| URL | https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2025-07/Draft%20Climate%20Action%20Plan%202023-2027.... |
| Description | Complexity economics insights for the Seventh Carbon Budget (November 2025) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/151622/pdf/ |
| Description | Contribution to POSTNote on Regenerative Agriculture |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0748/POST-PN-0748.pdf |
| Description | Environmental Audit Committee heat resilience and sustainable cooling written evidence (NbS Agile Sprint researcher in partnership with RSPB and WWF) August 2023 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/written-evidence-submitted-to-the-eac-inquiry-on-heat-res... |
| Description | Former HMT member Joseph Lowe's OPEN Fellowship |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/using-research-engage/policy-engagement/oxford-policy-engagement-netwo... |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint review of Land Use Strategy scoping report for Defra |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The NbS Agile Sprint team members made detailed recommendations to Defra for improving the evidence and strategy underpinning the 'Land Use Platform: A Holistic Assessment of Agriculture and Land Use Strategies to Achieve Net Zero'. |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions in the Levelling Up Agenda |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Short_LevelUp_Policy_Brief_v5.pdf |
| Description | NbPs for mental health in schools Agile Sprint contribution to government call for evidence on sustainability education in UK schools |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://consult.education.gov.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-team/curriculum-and-assessment-review-cal... |
| Description | NbS Sprint Recipe for Engagement adopted by Highlands Rewilding Tayvallich's community engagement strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://highlandsrewildingtayvallich.commonplace.is/en-GB/proposals/the-science-behind-our-engagemen... |
| Description | Provision of detailed feedback on government policy on the role of natural capital in the green economy to Environmental Audit Committee call for evidence 22nd September 2023 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3222/ |
| Description | Revocation and Reform Bill call for evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Secondment into the Brazilian government advising Brazil's Ministry of Science, Techology and Innovation |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | This secondment has led to the provision of practical, environmentally sustainable and affordable nature-based solutions to inform Brazil's net zero 2030 and 2050 targets. Régis Rathmann, Technical Coordinator of SINAPSE, and Márcio Rojas, Coordinator of the General Coordination for Climate Science, both at Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation provided the following testimonial for the work: "We hereby declare that Ms. Aline Cristina Soterroni served as a researcher from August 15, 2023, to August 31, 2024, at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, at the request of the Climate Science Coordination of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI). She contributed to the development of impact projections for public policies in the Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sector under the framework of the National Simulator of Sectoral Policies and Emissions (SINAPSE). The SINAPSE MCTI is the Brazilian government's official tool for projecting scenarios for the implementation of sectoral public policies and estimating potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, aiming to achieve the targets outlined in the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) submitted by Brazil under the Paris Agreement. The researcher's contributions were invaluable for enhancing the tool, particularly regarding the detailed representation of national policies in the LULUCF sector for version 2.0 of the tool, which is currently under development." |
| URL | https://bv.fapesp.br/en/pesquisador/45069/aline-cristina-soterroni/ |
| Description | Sophus zu Ermgassen, GBF Sprint lead, joins expert group on nature credits |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupI... |
| Description | Statement for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee call for evidence on how to improve soil health in the UK. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/agile-researchers-submit-evidence-for-parliamentary-inqui... |
| Description | Technical consultation of Biodiversity Metric V3.1 |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Use of Recipe for Engagement in 'Nattergal: Report on Stakeholder Engagement Best Practice in Landscape Scale Nature Recovery Projects' in Nattergal's 10 point approach to stakeholder engagement and best practice |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | These stakeholder engagement best practice principles inform improved land-use decision-making, natural resource management, and achieving mutually beneficial outcomes for individuals, communities, and places. |
| URL | https://www.nattergal.co.uk/blog/stakeholder-engagement-best-practice-nattergals-ten-point-approach |
| Description | Changing the Environment cross-cutting enhancement fund |
| Amount | £650,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Description | Supporting Community Diversity |
| Amount | £139,900 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Title | A globally influential area-condition metric is a poor proxy for invertebrate biodiversity |
| Description | There is increasing demand for standardised, easy-to-use metrics to assess progress towards achieving biodiversity targets and the effectiveness of ecological compensation schemes. Biodiversity metrics based on combining habitat area and habitat condition scores are proliferating rapidly, but there is limited evidence on how they relate to ecological outcomes. Here, we test the relationship between the statutory biodiversity metric used for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) in England - and as the basis for new biodiversity credit systems around the world - and invertebrate richness, abundance, and community composition. We find that the combined area-condition BNG metric does not capture the value of arable farmland and grassland sites for invertebrate biodiversity: invertebrate communities were highly variable across sites that had the same type and condition under the BNG metric. We found no reliable relationship between scores under the metric and either invertebrate abundance or species richness, with the risk of the metric undervaluing sites of high invertebrate value. Our results highlight the need to incorporate factors beyond habitat type and condition into site evaluations, and to complement metric use with species-based surveys. This dataset contains the invertebrate abundance and richness data collected and used in the analysis of this paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://datadryad.org/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.p5hqbzm1b |
| Title | Agile Biodiversity and Soil Health Metrics Tool |
| Description | Database of biodiversity and soil health metrics compiled by the Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is freely available on the Agile Knowledge Hub website to help practitioners monitor the outcomes of NbS projects more effectively. |
| URL | https://nbshub.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/monitoring-outcomes/ |
| Title | Agile Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Results Framework and Risks with KPIs |
| Description | ABased on the programme-level theory of change with indicators for impacts, outcomes, programme goals and programme performance to gather learning and evidence at the programme level. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet - work in progress! |
| Title | Agile NbS Funding Finder Tool |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team compiled a database of funding opportunities for NbS in the UK. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is freely available on the Agile Knowledge Hub website to help practitioners find suitable NbS funding opportunities. |
| URL | https://nbshub.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/funding-programmes/ |
| Title | Agile NbS Guidance Library |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team have compiled a database of high-quality guidance resources for NbS in the UK. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is freely available on the Agile Knowledge Hub website to help practitioners find suitable guidance for planning, implementing and monitoring NbS projects. |
| URL | https://nbshub.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/guidance/ |
| Title | Agile opportunity map for Charlbury parish |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint created a GIS map providing detailed information on habitats, natural capital, and opportunities for nature recovery and nature-based solutions for Charlbury parish. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This was provided to Charlbury Parish, who plan to use it as input to the development of their Local Nature Recovery plan. |
| Title | Agile opportunity map for Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint created a GIS map providing detailed information on habitats, natural capital, and opportunities for nature recovery and nature-based solutions for Mid-Cherwell. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This was provided to the Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan team, who plan to use it as evidence to guide plans for nature recovery as part of their Neighbourhood Plan. |
| Title | Agile opportunity map for North-East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team created a GIS map providing detailed information on habitats, natural capital, and opportunities for nature recovery and nature-based solutions for the North-East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This was provided to North-east Cotswolds Farmer Cluster, who plan to use it as evidence to guide plans for nature recovery as part of their Landscape Recovery project, funded by Defra under their Environmental Land Management scheme. |
| Title | Agile opportunity map for Oxfordshire |
| Description | GIS map providing detailed information on habitats, natural capital, and opportunities for nature recovery and nature-based solutions created for Oxfordshire by the Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This was provided to Oxfordshire County Council and Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre, who have used and referenced it within the Oxfordshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy. See also: contribution to new or improved professional practice: 'Agile Opportunity Map layers used and wider guidance provided for Oxfordshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy'. |
| Title | Agile opportunity map for Yorkshire and Humberside |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint created a GIS map providing detailed information on habitats, natural capital, and opportunities for nature recovery and nature-based solutions for the Yorkshire and Humberside regions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This was provided to experts at Leeds University and also to Yorkshire and Humberside Climate Commission, South Yorkshire and East Yorkshire councils, who are investigating the potential usefulness for development of their Local Nature Recovery Strategies and Net Zero plans. "The Agile map and dataset has been a huge help in the light of the very tight LNRS deadlines. It is providing an excellent "back-bone" around which to construct and illustrate the description of the LNRS areas as required by Task 3. It has also proved to be very useful in the initial stages of stakeholder consultation." Simon Pickles, North and East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre, March 2024. |
| Title | Annual flow data of municipal organic waste and nutrients, Leicestershire, UK, 2019 |
| Description | This dataset contains the annual flow data of organic waste and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) in the region of Leicester City and Leicestershire Country in the UK, for the year of 2019. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset contains the annual flow data of organic waste and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) in the region of Leicester City and Leicestershire Country in the UK, for the year of 2019.This dataset was used in the Agile Sprint research technical report output for Leicestershire County Council "Re-organising Nutrients Flows in Leicestershire". |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/df329c40-cd4d-48d9-90d7-968f69df2279 |
| Title | Baseline soil carbon and nitrogen content in a woodland creation experiment, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 2022 |
| Description | This dataset contains baseline soil carbon and nitrogen content within a native forest creation site on the Beldorney Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 17 samples were collected on a 100 m grid at the site prior to planting. The 100 m grid was extended into adjacent grassland that won't be planted and 8 additional samples were collected. The 100 m grid samples were all collected in September 2022. Within the planting area 17 plots were left unplanted, these will be used to track natural tree regeneration, and additional soil samples were collected here in November 2022. Soil carbon and nitrogen content will be tracked at the site as the planted and naturally regenerating trees establish. The work was supported by Natural Environment Research Council (NE/W004976/1) as part of the Agile Initiative at the Oxford Martin School and Leverhulme Trust as part of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at the University of Oxford. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This data was used to inform the NbS Agile Sprint outputs, including place-based case studies. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/75fc1418-b0ff-4dca-9b78-70c3c82d94b7 |
| Title | Invertebrate and plant biodiversity data from a woodland creation experiment, collected two years post-establishment, Wales, 2023 |
| Description | This dataset contains biodiversity data focussing on invertebrates (soil, ground, tree canopy), and plants collected from The Carbon Community woodland creation experiment in Wales. This includes measurements from 72 plots, covering experimental treatment combinations of woodland type (native broadleaf vs sitka spruce), enhanced weathering (with/without basalt addition), and soil microbiome inoculation (with/without soil from mature habitat type), compared to a grassland control treatment. The experiment was established in April 2021 and aims to assess strategies for maximising woodland carbon storage. The biodiversity data from each experimental plot was collected in summer 2023. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This data was used to inform the NbS Sprint outputs including place-based case studies. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/dea46de1-9072-4342-b944-e485ccc1324a |
| Title | Leicestershire County Nutrient Flows |
| Description | Leicestershire County Nutrient Flows; Results from Material Flow Analysis of the current system in Leicestershire County for nitrogen and phosphorus in CSV format |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Effective solutions to societal problems, improved environmental sustainability. |
| Title | Maritime fuel demand projections for the year 2050 at 1377 global ports |
| Description | This dataset contains the projected fuel demand per vessel type in the year 2050 at 1377 ports around the world. The baseline fuel demand and the projected throughput at each port are also provided. Fourteen different trade scenarios are considered and trips shorter than 1000 km are excluded as these will likely be electrified. The projected fuel demand is given in tonnes of Heavy Fuel Oil. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data were used to create the model described in subsequent publications arising from the green ammonia for shipping Agile Sprint research, such as https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ad097a. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f22a6c34-bd82-4fde-911c-16793f2a6752 |
| Title | Nature-based solutions are critical for putting Brazil on track towards net-zero emissions by 2050 |
| Description | This dataset supports the findings of the article "Nature-based solutions are critical for putting Brazil on track towards net-zero emissions by 2050" from Soterroni et al. (2023) accepted in Global Change Biology. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Brazil's future land-use trajectories and emissions pathways (2020-2050) from various scenarios as csv file, actively used in research and journal article in Global Change Biology. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/8399335 |
| Title | Preliminary Material flow analysis (MFA) for three sub-systems generated |
| Description | Preliminary modelling/optimisation framework for nutrient recovery. Conference article submitted to 33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE33) |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Preliminary business opportunity mapping for innovative nutrient recovery strategies. |
| Title | Sprint 1 site biodiversity measurements and calculations |
| Description | Sprint 1 (biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint) field team data from assessing sites under the Defra metric (field ecology - species names, abundance, etc) as a multi-worksheet csv file |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Data was used to provide feedback to Defra on their BNG metric v3 and informed the 'Assessing biodiversity net gain' Sprint output. |
| Title | Sprint 5 - Simulation of particulate organic carbon (POC) fluxes from the surface ocean to the seafloor, including seafloor stocks of POC |
| Description | Using an existing stochastic Lagrangian model of marine particles, the water-column POC flux (milligrams of POC per square meter per day) raining from the surface ocean to the seafloor sitting above the Endurance site is reconstructed. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No impacts so far. |
| Title | Techno-economic -environmental data for nutrient recovery technology |
| Description | Technology characterisation (energy and material inputs and outputs), economic costs and environmental impacts of established and emerging technologies for nutrient (N and P) recovery |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | improvements in public wellbeing quality of life; changes in efficiency and effectiveness of public service delivery, economic impacts, effective solutions to societal problems, improved environmental sustainability |
| Title | annarufas/jupyter-matlab-ocean-satellite-data-toolbox for shelf seas CCS Agile Sprint |
| Description | Jupyter Notebooks for accessing and downloading regional and point-location ocean satellite data from CMEMS, ESA OC-CCI, ESA BICEP, EUMETSAT, NASA Ocean Colour and NOAA CoastWatch. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This data was used to inform the outputs associated with the shelf seas CCS Agile Sprint that can be found at https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/what-do-we-need-to-know-to-safely-store-co2-beneath-our-shelf-seas/. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/14193549 |
| Description | 'Can regenerative agriculture deliver on a regenerative food system, in all its nutritional and justice dimensions?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School runs the budget, operation, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative and its Sprint projects, which are set up as collaboration agreements between the Oxford Martin School and the various departments that comprise an interdisciplinary Sprint team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint consisted of researchers from TABLE Debate (affiliated to the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University), and the departments of Geography and Biology in contract with the Oxford Martin School as holder of the Agile funds to answer the Sprint question bringing interdisciplinary perspectives to ensure outputs and outcomes with policy relevance, nutritional and social justice elements to regenerative agriculture as a regenerative food system. The key outputs to date from this collaboration are listed in the outputs and outcomes section below. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include biology and geography, along with further expertise from TABLE Debate, affiliated with Oxford University. Main outputs have been published by the collaborating partners, The Food Foundation and The Green Alliance: https://green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/should-the-25-year-farming-roadmap-support-regenerative-agriculture/; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-support-food-security-and-diet-goals; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/regenerative-agriculture-greenwashing-and-food-system-power-dynamics; https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-deliver-nutritious-food-and-just-food-system |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'Can regenerative agriculture deliver on a regenerative food system, in all its nutritional and justice dimensions?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Environmental Change Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School runs the budget, operation, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative and its Sprint projects, which are set up as collaboration agreements between the Oxford Martin School and the various departments that comprise an interdisciplinary Sprint team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint consisted of researchers from TABLE Debate (affiliated to the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University), and the departments of Geography and Biology in contract with the Oxford Martin School as holder of the Agile funds to answer the Sprint question bringing interdisciplinary perspectives to ensure outputs and outcomes with policy relevance, nutritional and social justice elements to regenerative agriculture as a regenerative food system. The key outputs to date from this collaboration are listed in the outputs and outcomes section below. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include biology and geography, along with further expertise from TABLE Debate, affiliated with Oxford University. Main outputs have been published by the collaborating partners, The Food Foundation and The Green Alliance: https://green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/should-the-25-year-farming-roadmap-support-regenerative-agriculture/; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-support-food-security-and-diet-goals; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/regenerative-agriculture-greenwashing-and-food-system-power-dynamics; https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-deliver-nutritious-food-and-just-food-system |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'Can regenerative agriculture deliver on a regenerative food system, in all its nutritional and justice dimensions?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School runs the budget, operation, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative and its Sprint projects, which are set up as collaboration agreements between the Oxford Martin School and the various departments that comprise an interdisciplinary Sprint team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint consisted of researchers from TABLE Debate (affiliated to the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University), and the departments of Geography and Biology in contract with the Oxford Martin School as holder of the Agile funds to answer the Sprint question bringing interdisciplinary perspectives to ensure outputs and outcomes with policy relevance, nutritional and social justice elements to regenerative agriculture as a regenerative food system. The key outputs to date from this collaboration are listed in the outputs and outcomes section below. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include biology and geography, along with further expertise from TABLE Debate, affiliated with Oxford University. Main outputs have been published by the collaborating partners, The Food Foundation and The Green Alliance: https://green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/should-the-25-year-farming-roadmap-support-regenerative-agriculture/; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-support-food-security-and-diet-goals; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/regenerative-agriculture-greenwashing-and-food-system-power-dynamics; https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-deliver-nutritious-food-and-just-food-system |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'How can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School manages the budget, administration, operational management and research support for the Agile Initiative programme, and forms collaborative agreements with Oxford University departments to form interdisciplinary Sprint teams. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint team brings expertise from the Environmental Change Institute and the departments of biology and geography at Oxford University to deliver an interdisciplinary answer to the research question with input and guidance from and policy relevance to Defra, The Green Finance Institute and the Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership to answer the research question 'how can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework' with evidence and policy outputs to inform Defra's decision-making. |
| Impact | Disciplines include biology and geography. Outputs include https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Scenario-Report_Alvarez-et-al-Dec2025.pdf; https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/txepv_v1; https://osf.io/download/694bb91432b47e2bef739091/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'How can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Environmental Change Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School manages the budget, administration, operational management and research support for the Agile Initiative programme, and forms collaborative agreements with Oxford University departments to form interdisciplinary Sprint teams. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint team brings expertise from the Environmental Change Institute and the departments of biology and geography at Oxford University to deliver an interdisciplinary answer to the research question with input and guidance from and policy relevance to Defra, The Green Finance Institute and the Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership to answer the research question 'how can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework' with evidence and policy outputs to inform Defra's decision-making. |
| Impact | Disciplines include biology and geography. Outputs include https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Scenario-Report_Alvarez-et-al-Dec2025.pdf; https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/txepv_v1; https://osf.io/download/694bb91432b47e2bef739091/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'How can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School manages the budget, administration, operational management and research support for the Agile Initiative programme, and forms collaborative agreements with Oxford University departments to form interdisciplinary Sprint teams. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint team brings expertise from the Environmental Change Institute and the departments of biology and geography at Oxford University to deliver an interdisciplinary answer to the research question with input and guidance from and policy relevance to Defra, The Green Finance Institute and the Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership to answer the research question 'how can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework' with evidence and policy outputs to inform Defra's decision-making. |
| Impact | Disciplines include biology and geography. Outputs include https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Scenario-Report_Alvarez-et-al-Dec2025.pdf; https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/txepv_v1; https://osf.io/download/694bb91432b47e2bef739091/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'How can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School manages the budget, administration, operational management and research support for the Agile Initiative programme, and forms collaborative agreements with Oxford University departments to form interdisciplinary Sprint teams. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint team brings expertise from the Environmental Change Institute and the departments of biology and geography at Oxford University to deliver an interdisciplinary answer to the research question with input and guidance from and policy relevance to Defra, The Green Finance Institute and the Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership to answer the research question 'how can the UK implement the finance-related goals of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework' with evidence and policy outputs to inform Defra's decision-making. |
| Impact | Disciplines include biology and geography. Outputs include https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Scenario-Report_Alvarez-et-al-Dec2025.pdf; https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/txepv_v1; https://osf.io/download/694bb91432b47e2bef739091/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'Is "nature" a policy solution to mental health in schools?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School provides the funding and the research and operational support to the Sprint team based at the collaborating departments in Oxford University: psychiatry, primary care, education, geography and the Division of Gardens, Libraries and Museums. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this Sprint was to provide evidence to support or challenge the value of Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in young people, delivered through schools. The multi-disciplinary approach included a team of researchers from Oxford's Departments of Psychiatry, Geography, Primary Care, Education, the Oxford Botanic Gardens and Arboretum (OBGA), and Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM), who worked collaboratively with UK Department for Education partners. The team looked at Nature-based Programmes in the school curriculum and in the whole school setting. Researchers worked alongside community and youth groups, including the NeurOx Young People's Advisory Group, the Cherwell School Young Ecologist Group, and The Oxfordshire Schools Sustainability Network. The Sprint used Deliberative Policy Analysis methods and highlighted social and political implications of Nature-based Programmes. The Sprint research helped to shape policy knowledge and develop insights for Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in schools. It also analysed innovative local school educational policies in the form of case studies to support eventual implementation pathways for evidenced Nature-based Programmes to support mental health and wellbeing in UK schools. |
| Impact | The disciplines involved include psychiatry, geography, education, primary care health sciences. Main outputs to date include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Workshop-Report-on-NBP-for-MHWB-in-secondary-schools.pdf and https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/nature-based-programmes-case-studies/. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'Is "nature" a policy solution to mental health in schools?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Psychiatry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School provides the funding and the research and operational support to the Sprint team based at the collaborating departments in Oxford University: psychiatry, primary care, education, geography and the Division of Gardens, Libraries and Museums. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this Sprint was to provide evidence to support or challenge the value of Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in young people, delivered through schools. The multi-disciplinary approach included a team of researchers from Oxford's Departments of Psychiatry, Geography, Primary Care, Education, the Oxford Botanic Gardens and Arboretum (OBGA), and Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM), who worked collaboratively with UK Department for Education partners. The team looked at Nature-based Programmes in the school curriculum and in the whole school setting. Researchers worked alongside community and youth groups, including the NeurOx Young People's Advisory Group, the Cherwell School Young Ecologist Group, and The Oxfordshire Schools Sustainability Network. The Sprint used Deliberative Policy Analysis methods and highlighted social and political implications of Nature-based Programmes. The Sprint research helped to shape policy knowledge and develop insights for Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in schools. It also analysed innovative local school educational policies in the form of case studies to support eventual implementation pathways for evidenced Nature-based Programmes to support mental health and wellbeing in UK schools. |
| Impact | The disciplines involved include psychiatry, geography, education, primary care health sciences. Main outputs to date include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Workshop-Report-on-NBP-for-MHWB-in-secondary-schools.pdf and https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/nature-based-programmes-case-studies/. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'Is "nature" a policy solution to mental health in schools?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Division of Gardens, Libraries and Museums |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School provides the funding and the research and operational support to the Sprint team based at the collaborating departments in Oxford University: psychiatry, primary care, education, geography and the Division of Gardens, Libraries and Museums. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this Sprint was to provide evidence to support or challenge the value of Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in young people, delivered through schools. The multi-disciplinary approach included a team of researchers from Oxford's Departments of Psychiatry, Geography, Primary Care, Education, the Oxford Botanic Gardens and Arboretum (OBGA), and Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM), who worked collaboratively with UK Department for Education partners. The team looked at Nature-based Programmes in the school curriculum and in the whole school setting. Researchers worked alongside community and youth groups, including the NeurOx Young People's Advisory Group, the Cherwell School Young Ecologist Group, and The Oxfordshire Schools Sustainability Network. The Sprint used Deliberative Policy Analysis methods and highlighted social and political implications of Nature-based Programmes. The Sprint research helped to shape policy knowledge and develop insights for Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in schools. It also analysed innovative local school educational policies in the form of case studies to support eventual implementation pathways for evidenced Nature-based Programmes to support mental health and wellbeing in UK schools. |
| Impact | The disciplines involved include psychiatry, geography, education, primary care health sciences. Main outputs to date include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Workshop-Report-on-NBP-for-MHWB-in-secondary-schools.pdf and https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/nature-based-programmes-case-studies/. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'Is "nature" a policy solution to mental health in schools?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School provides the funding and the research and operational support to the Sprint team based at the collaborating departments in Oxford University: psychiatry, primary care, education, geography and the Division of Gardens, Libraries and Museums. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this Sprint was to provide evidence to support or challenge the value of Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in young people, delivered through schools. The multi-disciplinary approach included a team of researchers from Oxford's Departments of Psychiatry, Geography, Primary Care, Education, the Oxford Botanic Gardens and Arboretum (OBGA), and Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM), who worked collaboratively with UK Department for Education partners. The team looked at Nature-based Programmes in the school curriculum and in the whole school setting. Researchers worked alongside community and youth groups, including the NeurOx Young People's Advisory Group, the Cherwell School Young Ecologist Group, and The Oxfordshire Schools Sustainability Network. The Sprint used Deliberative Policy Analysis methods and highlighted social and political implications of Nature-based Programmes. The Sprint research helped to shape policy knowledge and develop insights for Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in schools. It also analysed innovative local school educational policies in the form of case studies to support eventual implementation pathways for evidenced Nature-based Programmes to support mental health and wellbeing in UK schools. |
| Impact | The disciplines involved include psychiatry, geography, education, primary care health sciences. Main outputs to date include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Workshop-Report-on-NBP-for-MHWB-in-secondary-schools.pdf and https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/nature-based-programmes-case-studies/. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 'Is "nature" a policy solution to mental health in schools?' Agile Sprint |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School provides the funding and the research and operational support to the Sprint team based at the collaborating departments in Oxford University: psychiatry, primary care, education, geography and the Division of Gardens, Libraries and Museums. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this Sprint was to provide evidence to support or challenge the value of Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in young people, delivered through schools. The multi-disciplinary approach included a team of researchers from Oxford's Departments of Psychiatry, Geography, Primary Care, Education, the Oxford Botanic Gardens and Arboretum (OBGA), and Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM), who worked collaboratively with UK Department for Education partners. The team looked at Nature-based Programmes in the school curriculum and in the whole school setting. Researchers worked alongside community and youth groups, including the NeurOx Young People's Advisory Group, the Cherwell School Young Ecologist Group, and The Oxfordshire Schools Sustainability Network. The Sprint used Deliberative Policy Analysis methods and highlighted social and political implications of Nature-based Programmes. The Sprint research helped to shape policy knowledge and develop insights for Nature-based Programmes for mental health and wellbeing in schools. It also analysed innovative local school educational policies in the form of case studies to support eventual implementation pathways for evidenced Nature-based Programmes to support mental health and wellbeing in UK schools. |
| Impact | The disciplines involved include psychiatry, geography, education, primary care health sciences. Main outputs to date include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Workshop-Report-on-NBP-for-MHWB-in-secondary-schools.pdf and https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/nature-based-programmes-case-studies/. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | 2024 Food and Agriculture Organisation State of Food and Agriculture Report preparation |
| Organisation | Sustainable Development Solutions Network |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Supporting the preparation of the 2024 edition of the State of Food and Agriculture report for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in collaboration with the SDSN Association. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Alison Smith, who led the Agile Initiative's 'How do we scale up Nature-based Solutions?' Sprint will build on the research conducted within the Agile Sprint relating to the FABLE model to help inform the report, and received €16,076.25 EUR for the work (grant number SP_PR02983) |
| Impact | The collaboration commenced 10 November 2023 and terminated 30 April 2024, and the report to which Alison Smith contributed ('How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study') was delivered following the end of the collaboration period. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | A roadmap for UK beans Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Environmental Change Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the Environmental Change Institute to enable Agile to provide £24313.53 funding to researchers in the Environmental Change Institute to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | A roadmap for UK beans Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the Environmental Change Institute to enable Agile to provide £24313.53 funding to researchers in the Environmental Change Institute to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Agile Carbon Budget Sprint collaboration between Oxford University departments (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership between the Oxford Martin School as budget holder of the Agile Initiative and the School of Geography and the Environment has for a total cost of GBP £467,801.99 enabled a Sprint team to form to answer the research question 'How can we assess the macroeconomic and inequality impacts of carbon budgets?' |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership between the School of Geography and the Environment as budget recipient of the Agile Initiative funding administered by the Oxford Martin School has for a total cost of GBP £467,801.99 enabled a Sprint team to form to answer the research question 'How can we assess the macroeconomic and inequality impacts of carbon budgets?' |
| Impact | Complexity economics insights for the Seventh Carbon Budget - written evidence for the Environmental Audit Committee. Further outputs will emerge as the research progresses. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Carbon Budget Sprint collaboration between Oxford University departments (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership between the Oxford Martin School as budget holder of the Agile Initiative and the School of Geography and the Environment has for a total cost of GBP £467,801.99 enabled a Sprint team to form to answer the research question 'How can we assess the macroeconomic and inequality impacts of carbon budgets?' |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership between the School of Geography and the Environment as budget recipient of the Agile Initiative funding administered by the Oxford Martin School has for a total cost of GBP £467,801.99 enabled a Sprint team to form to answer the research question 'How can we assess the macroeconomic and inequality impacts of carbon budgets?' |
| Impact | Complexity economics insights for the Seventh Carbon Budget - written evidence for the Environmental Audit Committee. Further outputs will emerge as the research progresses. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Childhood violence in climate shocks Sprint University of Oxford and University of Cape Town collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Cape Town |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | On behalf of the Agile Initiative, the University of Oxford has contractually arranged to pay the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town £21485.30 GBP for two six-month early career research positions to be researchers on the Oxford-based Agile Sprint team to answer the research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters?' to enable them to contribute to the research based on their expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The two early career researchers from the University of Cape Town are providing invaluable expertise and regional knowledge relevant to answering the Sprint's research question. |
| Impact | Research is ongoing, no outputs yet. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Childhood violence in climate shocks Sprint collaboration between Oxford Martin School, Department for Social Policy and Intervention, School of Geography and Environment, and Department of Computer Sciences (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Computer Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | this partnership has enabled the Agile Sprint to answer the interdisciplinary research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters?' with a budget of £542,207.70 GBP from the Oxford Martin School to the collaborating departments conducting the research |
| Collaborator Contribution | The researchers from the three collaborating departments are working together to create interdisciplinary, policy-relevant solutions to the research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters'. |
| Impact | Outputs will be forthcoming as the research progresses |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Childhood violence in climate shocks Sprint collaboration between Oxford Martin School, Department for Social Policy and Intervention, School of Geography and Environment, and Department of Computer Sciences (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Social Policy and Intervention |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | this partnership has enabled the Agile Sprint to answer the interdisciplinary research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters?' with a budget of £542,207.70 GBP from the Oxford Martin School to the collaborating departments conducting the research |
| Collaborator Contribution | The researchers from the three collaborating departments are working together to create interdisciplinary, policy-relevant solutions to the research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters'. |
| Impact | Outputs will be forthcoming as the research progresses |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Childhood violence in climate shocks Sprint collaboration between Oxford Martin School, Department for Social Policy and Intervention, School of Geography and Environment, and Department of Computer Sciences (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | this partnership has enabled the Agile Sprint to answer the interdisciplinary research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters?' with a budget of £542,207.70 GBP from the Oxford Martin School to the collaborating departments conducting the research |
| Collaborator Contribution | The researchers from the three collaborating departments are working together to create interdisciplinary, policy-relevant solutions to the research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters'. |
| Impact | Outputs will be forthcoming as the research progresses |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Childhood violence in climate shocks Sprint collaboration between Oxford Martin School, Department for Social Policy and Intervention, School of Geography and Environment, and Department of Computer Sciences (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | this partnership has enabled the Agile Sprint to answer the interdisciplinary research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters?' with a budget of £542,207.70 GBP from the Oxford Martin School to the collaborating departments conducting the research |
| Collaborator Contribution | The researchers from the three collaborating departments are working together to create interdisciplinary, policy-relevant solutions to the research question 'How can we prevent childhood sexual abuse in climate disasters'. |
| Impact | Outputs will be forthcoming as the research progresses |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Community Impact Accelerator Fund awarded to E.J. Milner-Gulland, Department of Biology, Oxford University, for the Citizen's Assembly for Nature in Oxfordshire |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme. There is a separate budget line for EDI-related activities until end of March 2025. Agile has used part of this budget to help Sprint teams, past and present, to run initiatives that would accelerate impact within communities as a lead-on from Sprint research, to deliver tangible benefits to communities. It provided £25,000 to E.J. Milner-Gulland to launch the Citizen's Assembly for Nature in Oxfordshire, as a community building follow-on from the research she undertook as part of the 'How do we account for biodiversity?' Agile Sprint. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland spearheaded the launch the Citizen's Assembly for Nature in Oxfordshire. |
| Impact | See: https://www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/citizens-jury-people-and-nature/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Agile Community Impact Accelerator Fund awarded to E.J. Milner-Gulland, Department of Biology, Oxford University, for the Citizen's Assembly for Nature in Oxfordshire |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme. There is a separate budget line for EDI-related activities until end of March 2025. Agile has used part of this budget to help Sprint teams, past and present, to run initiatives that would accelerate impact within communities as a lead-on from Sprint research, to deliver tangible benefits to communities. It provided £25,000 to E.J. Milner-Gulland to launch the Citizen's Assembly for Nature in Oxfordshire, as a community building follow-on from the research she undertook as part of the 'How do we account for biodiversity?' Agile Sprint. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland spearheaded the launch the Citizen's Assembly for Nature in Oxfordshire. |
| Impact | See: https://www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/citizens-jury-people-and-nature/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Agile EDI Booster Fund awarded to Tara Garnett, Oxford University, for activities responding to 'Urban voices and regenerative agriculture' |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Environmental Change Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme. There is a separate budget line for EDI activities until the end of March 2025. Some of this money has been used to enable current Agile Sprint teams to undertake research activities that increase equity and inclusion within the remit of their Sprint's research question, to minimise any unintentional trade-offs for marginalised communities. Tara Garnett from the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University has been awarded £3,934.80 for activities responding to urban voices and regenerative agriculture, to enhance the Agile Regenerative Agriculture's Sprint research and stakeholder inclusion. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tara Garnett, at the Environmental Change Institute used the funding by the end of March 2025 to investigate whether more sustainable farming ensures our food systems deliver access to high quality food for marginalised communities. This was built into the outputs from the Regenerative Agriculture's Sprint research. |
| Impact | This funding resulted specifically in two podcasts 'Hunger on our doorstep' parts 1 and 2: https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast/episode87, https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast/episode90 |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile EDI Booster Fund awarded to Tara Garnett, Oxford University, for activities responding to 'Urban voices and regenerative agriculture' |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme. There is a separate budget line for EDI activities until the end of March 2025. Some of this money has been used to enable current Agile Sprint teams to undertake research activities that increase equity and inclusion within the remit of their Sprint's research question, to minimise any unintentional trade-offs for marginalised communities. Tara Garnett from the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University has been awarded £3,934.80 for activities responding to urban voices and regenerative agriculture, to enhance the Agile Regenerative Agriculture's Sprint research and stakeholder inclusion. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tara Garnett, at the Environmental Change Institute used the funding by the end of March 2025 to investigate whether more sustainable farming ensures our food systems deliver access to high quality food for marginalised communities. This was built into the outputs from the Regenerative Agriculture's Sprint research. |
| Impact | This funding resulted specifically in two podcasts 'Hunger on our doorstep' parts 1 and 2: https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast/episode87, https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast/episode90 |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Initiative Enabling Fund award to Alexis McGiven as part of Oxford Net Zero's engagement team for Scope 3 Challenges and Opportunities workshop and outputs related to Agile's aims |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme. To help support research related to Agile not funded via Sprints, Agile has set up the Agile Initiative Enabling Fund to support small-scale research activities that contribute to Agile's environmental, interdisciplinary and policy influence mission. Details on the Agile Initiative Enabling Fund can be found on this link: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/the-agile-initiative-enabling-fund/. Oxford Net Zero was awarded £7,600 (at 80% FEC) to run deliberative workshops to address the Scope 3 emissions challenge arising from the The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) criteria. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Oxford Net Zero ran the workshops which generated practical recommendations for the existing system to provide recommendations to SBTi on the system of Scope 3 emissions measurement, and also generated a report for the Agile Initiative on the funded work, with learning relevant for the Agile programme. |
| Impact | Deliberative workshops to address the SBTi Scope 3 emissions measurement criteria, practical recommendations to the SBTi, and a report to the Agile Initiative outlining how this activity contributed to Agile's interdisciplinary, environmental and policy relevant goals. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Agile Initiative Enabling Fund award to Alexis McGiven as part of Oxford Net Zero's engagement team for Scope 3 Challenges and Opportunities workshop and outputs related to Agile's aims |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme. To help support research related to Agile not funded via Sprints, Agile has set up the Agile Initiative Enabling Fund to support small-scale research activities that contribute to Agile's environmental, interdisciplinary and policy influence mission. Details on the Agile Initiative Enabling Fund can be found on this link: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/the-agile-initiative-enabling-fund/. Oxford Net Zero was awarded £7,600 (at 80% FEC) to run deliberative workshops to address the Scope 3 emissions challenge arising from the The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) criteria. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Oxford Net Zero ran the workshops which generated practical recommendations for the existing system to provide recommendations to SBTi on the system of Scope 3 emissions measurement, and also generated a report for the Agile Initiative on the funded work, with learning relevant for the Agile programme. |
| Impact | Deliberative workshops to address the SBTi Scope 3 emissions measurement criteria, practical recommendations to the SBTi, and a report to the Agile Initiative outlining how this activity contributed to Agile's interdisciplinary, environmental and policy relevant goals. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Agile Initiative Enabling Fund awarded to Jennifer Dodsworth, Oxford University, for Enhancing Researcher Connections at the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery Conference, September 2024 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative. It has made funding available for researchers outside of Agile Sprints to undertake small-scale research activities that contribute to Agile's interdisciplinary, environmental and policy influence goals. Further information on the Agile Initiative Enabling Fund can be found here: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/the-agile-initiative-enabling-fund/. Jennifer Dodsworth at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, was awarded £2030 (at 80% FEC) to host an informal networking session after the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery Conference, September 2024. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The informal networking session after the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference enhanced researcher connections, contributing to Agile's goal to create a critical mass of interdisciplinary researchers at the University, and to build a wider, networked community of researchers within interdisciplinary, policy-relevant environmental science. |
| Impact | Jennifer Dodsworth provided Agile with an internal report outlining how the networking event contributed to Agile's goal to create a critical mass of interdisciplinary researchers at the University, and to build a wider, networked community of researchers within interdisciplinary, policy-relevant environmental science. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Agile Initiative Enabling Fund awarded to Jennifer Dodsworth, Oxford University, for Enhancing Researcher Connections at the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery Conference, September 2024 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative. It has made funding available for researchers outside of Agile Sprints to undertake small-scale research activities that contribute to Agile's interdisciplinary, environmental and policy influence goals. Further information on the Agile Initiative Enabling Fund can be found here: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/the-agile-initiative-enabling-fund/. Jennifer Dodsworth at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, was awarded £2030 (at 80% FEC) to host an informal networking session after the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery Conference, September 2024. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The informal networking session after the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference enhanced researcher connections, contributing to Agile's goal to create a critical mass of interdisciplinary researchers at the University, and to build a wider, networked community of researchers within interdisciplinary, policy-relevant environmental science. |
| Impact | Jennifer Dodsworth provided Agile with an internal report outlining how the networking event contributed to Agile's goal to create a critical mass of interdisciplinary researchers at the University, and to build a wider, networked community of researchers within interdisciplinary, policy-relevant environmental science. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Agile Initiative contribution to the June 2024 NbSI Conference |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Agile Initiative, via the Oxford Martin School, approved the use of £11,830.80 drawn from Agile's core and EDI budgets to support the Nature-based Solutions Initiative conference June 2024 to fund a stall and poster for Agile, and ticket sponsorship (both from the core budget) and bursary sponsorship from the EDI budget. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The stall raised Agile's visibility via conference attendees, ticket sponsorship enabled Agile researchers without requisite resources to attend the conference and increase their networking capacity, and the bursaries contribute to bringing diverse voices from the Global South to the conference and connecting them with Agile researchers to foster collaboration. |
| Impact | The three bursary attendees contributed to a blog (https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/growing-positive-change/) on their learning and recommendations from the conference attendance in the URL provided, which generated further learning for Agile. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Agile place-based environmental governance Sprint Oxford Martin School and School of Geography and the Environment collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Agile Initiative and its budget is delivered via The Oxford Martin School, which has organised the collaboration and transfer of funds (GBP ££246637.06) between The Oxford Martin School and The School of Geography and the Environment for the Agile Initiative Sprint project ''How can we deliver effective and equitable place-based environmental governance?' to answer the research question with policy-relevant solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The lead researchers for the Agile Sprint formed from this collaboration 'How can we deliver effective and equitable place-based environmental governance?' are using the budget for staff and non-staff costs to answer the research question with policy relevant solutions, outputs and engagement activities. |
| Impact | To date, the collaboration has contributed early emerging insights from the Sprint's findings to inform development of 'Bridges to the Future' chapter of SoNaRR report: https://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/guidance-and-advice/environmental-topics/trees-woodlands-and-forests/sonarr-2025-bridges-to-the-future/?lang=en |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile place-based environmental governance Sprint Oxford Martin School and School of Geography and the Environment collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Agile Initiative and its budget is delivered via The Oxford Martin School, which has organised the collaboration and transfer of funds (GBP ££246637.06) between The Oxford Martin School and The School of Geography and the Environment for the Agile Initiative Sprint project ''How can we deliver effective and equitable place-based environmental governance?' to answer the research question with policy-relevant solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The lead researchers for the Agile Sprint formed from this collaboration 'How can we deliver effective and equitable place-based environmental governance?' are using the budget for staff and non-staff costs to answer the research question with policy relevant solutions, outputs and engagement activities. |
| Impact | To date, the collaboration has contributed early emerging insights from the Sprint's findings to inform development of 'Bridges to the Future' chapter of SoNaRR report: https://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/guidance-and-advice/environmental-topics/trees-woodlands-and-forests/sonarr-2025-bridges-to-the-future/?lang=en |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile place-based environmental governance Sprint University of Oxford and Natural Resources Wales collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | Natural Resources Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with Natural Resources Wales as the policy partner to co-create the Agile Sprint 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' to help provide policy-relevant research solutions of immediate use to NRW |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration with NRW as the policy partner to co-create the Agile Sprint 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' and contribute policy-informed expertise to answer the research question |
| Impact | Contribution of early emerging insights from Sprint findings (to which NRW contributed) to inform development of 'Bridges to the Future' chapter of SoNaRR report: https://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/guidance-and-advice/environmental-topics/trees-woodlands-and-forests/sonarr-2025-bridges-to-the-future/?lang=en. Further outputs and outcomes will follow. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile place-based environmental governance Sprint University of Oxford and Natural Resources Wales collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with Natural Resources Wales as the policy partner to co-create the Agile Sprint 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' to help provide policy-relevant research solutions of immediate use to NRW |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration with NRW as the policy partner to co-create the Agile Sprint 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' and contribute policy-informed expertise to answer the research question |
| Impact | Contribution of early emerging insights from Sprint findings (to which NRW contributed) to inform development of 'Bridges to the Future' chapter of SoNaRR report: https://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/guidance-and-advice/environmental-topics/trees-woodlands-and-forests/sonarr-2025-bridges-to-the-future/?lang=en. Further outputs and outcomes will follow. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile place-based environmental governance Sprint University of Oxford and SRUC collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | Scotland's Rural College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration to finance a SRUC researcher (£24806 GBP for one year) to be part of the Agile Sprint 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' to contribute research expertise to answer the research question |
| Collaborator Contribution | To contribute specialist knowledge, contacts and institutional insights from SRUC to answering the Sprint's research question 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' |
| Impact | As part of the Agile Sprint team, the SRUC researcher contributed to the Sprint insights that were used to inform development of 'Bridges to the Future' chapter of SoNaRR report: https://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/guidance-and-advice/environmental-topics/trees-woodlands-and-forests/sonarr-2025-bridges-to-the-future/?lang=en. Further outputs and outcomes will follow in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile place-based environmental governance Sprint University of Oxford and SRUC collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration to finance a SRUC researcher (£24806 GBP for one year) to be part of the Agile Sprint 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' to contribute research expertise to answer the research question |
| Collaborator Contribution | To contribute specialist knowledge, contacts and institutional insights from SRUC to answering the Sprint's research question 'How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?' |
| Impact | As part of the Agile Sprint team, the SRUC researcher contributed to the Sprint insights that were used to inform development of 'Bridges to the Future' chapter of SoNaRR report: https://cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/guidance-and-advice/environmental-topics/trees-woodlands-and-forests/sonarr-2025-bridges-to-the-future/?lang=en. Further outputs and outcomes will follow in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile programme researcher collaboration between University of Oxford and University College London (2025) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership enables the former Deputy Director of the Agile Initiative, now at UCL, to contribute 20% of his time at a total price of £30445.19 GBP to continue conducting programme-level research for the Agile Initiative |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership whereby UCL allows the former Deputy Director of the Agile initiative to continue to conduct programme level research for the Agile Initiative enables key learning that can be shared with the University of Oxford, the Agile Initiative funders, and more widely |
| Impact | The ongoing follow up survey to Agile Sprint researchers and stakeholders, and the collation of learning for academic papers that are scheduled for release mid-2026 |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Agile programme researcher collaboration between University of Oxford and University College London (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership enables the former Deputy Director of the Agile Initiative, now at UCL, to contribute 20% of his time at a total price of £30445.19 GBP to continue conducting programme-level research for the Agile Initiative |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership whereby UCL allows the former Deputy Director of the Agile initiative to continue to conduct programme level research for the Agile Initiative enables key learning that can be shared with the University of Oxford, the Agile Initiative funders, and more widely |
| Impact | The ongoing follow up survey to Agile Sprint researchers and stakeholders, and the collation of learning for academic papers that are scheduled for release mid-2026 |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Begbroke Innovation District as a living lab - case study for biodiversity net gain |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building on the work of the 'How do we account for biodiversity?' Agile Sprint, Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland and her team have become part of Begbroke Innovation District as a living lab, and will provide baseline and ongoing biodiversity data to inform the ambitious target of 20% Biodiversity Net Gain as part of the development of the site. This builds directly on the Sprint output, 'Assessing Biodiversity Net Gain plans: a quick guide for planners and developers', designed for use by Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) and developers, provides an easy-to-use checklist to help understand whether submitted Biodiversity Gain Plans are correctly completed, are feasible, and take into account their local ecological and social context. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Oxford University Innovation team within Research Services, along with the University's Estates and Facilities, made the Begbroke Innovation District 'living lab' opportunity possible, within the University's environmental sustainability and development goals. |
| Impact | University ecologists led by Professor Dame EJ Milner-Gulland plan to survey the range of living things currently found at the site to provide a baseline and will carry out regular monitoring over the next 30 years to understand how the changes that are made to the site affect local ecosystems. Their findings will feed back into the development process to inform planning, helping ensure that achieve key goals are achieved, such as aiming to increase biodiversity on the site by at least 20% over the course of the project. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Begbroke Innovation District as a living lab - case study for biodiversity net gain |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford University Innovation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Building on the work of the 'How do we account for biodiversity?' Agile Sprint, Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland and her team have become part of Begbroke Innovation District as a living lab, and will provide baseline and ongoing biodiversity data to inform the ambitious target of 20% Biodiversity Net Gain as part of the development of the site. This builds directly on the Sprint output, 'Assessing Biodiversity Net Gain plans: a quick guide for planners and developers', designed for use by Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) and developers, provides an easy-to-use checklist to help understand whether submitted Biodiversity Gain Plans are correctly completed, are feasible, and take into account their local ecological and social context. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Oxford University Innovation team within Research Services, along with the University's Estates and Facilities, made the Begbroke Innovation District 'living lab' opportunity possible, within the University's environmental sustainability and development goals. |
| Impact | University ecologists led by Professor Dame EJ Milner-Gulland plan to survey the range of living things currently found at the site to provide a baseline and will carry out regular monitoring over the next 30 years to understand how the changes that are made to the site affect local ecosystems. Their findings will feed back into the development process to inform planning, helping ensure that achieve key goals are achieved, such as aiming to increase biodiversity on the site by at least 20% over the course of the project. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Building high-integrity nature markets Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as fund administrator of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the School of Geography and the Environment to enable Agile to provide £22435.18 funding to a researcher in The School of Geography and the Environment to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Building high-integrity nature markets Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as fund administrator of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the School of Geography and the Environment to enable Agile to provide £22435.18 funding to a researcher in The School of Geography and the Environment to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Can we solve the "spin-up" problem in Earth System Modelling? |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Earth Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration is for an Agile Sprint, and is between the Agile Initiative based at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford and University of Oxford researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences, and the Mathematical Institute. The Agile Initiative provides the funding, administrative and research support to the researchers on this Sprint. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This Agile Sprint started in October 2023 and ran till end September 2024 to 'spin up' earth system models that are currently too slow and contain too many parametric uncertainties to be usable by developing a scalable and robust algorithm to address this long-standing problem and provide evidence to the Met Office regarding the algorithm's use in practice, which has encouraged modelling groups around the world to adopt it. The research was undertaken by researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Mathematical Institute. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include: oceanography, mathematics, and software engineering. The researchers proactively engaged with the Met Office to ensure that stakeholder perspectives and decision maker needs are embedded in the research. This collaboration resulted in the generation of the Anderson acceleration model for earth system modelling spin-up, the code and guidance both available on Zenodo, and the academic paper, 'Efficient spin-up of Earth System Models using sequence acceleration', Science Advances, vol 10 issue 18 which prompted a press release and article in The Conversation based on the implications for climate modelling. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn2839, https://zenodo.org/records/14741088. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Can we solve the "spin-up" problem in Earth System Modelling? |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Mathematical Institute Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration is for an Agile Sprint, and is between the Agile Initiative based at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford and University of Oxford researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences, and the Mathematical Institute. The Agile Initiative provides the funding, administrative and research support to the researchers on this Sprint. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This Agile Sprint started in October 2023 and ran till end September 2024 to 'spin up' earth system models that are currently too slow and contain too many parametric uncertainties to be usable by developing a scalable and robust algorithm to address this long-standing problem and provide evidence to the Met Office regarding the algorithm's use in practice, which has encouraged modelling groups around the world to adopt it. The research was undertaken by researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Mathematical Institute. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include: oceanography, mathematics, and software engineering. The researchers proactively engaged with the Met Office to ensure that stakeholder perspectives and decision maker needs are embedded in the research. This collaboration resulted in the generation of the Anderson acceleration model for earth system modelling spin-up, the code and guidance both available on Zenodo, and the academic paper, 'Efficient spin-up of Earth System Models using sequence acceleration', Science Advances, vol 10 issue 18 which prompted a press release and article in The Conversation based on the implications for climate modelling. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn2839, https://zenodo.org/records/14741088. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration agreement with DTU |
| Organisation | Technical University of Denmark |
| Department | Department of Environmental Engineering |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration agreement with DTU. With Marie Munster, Section for Sustainability, Society & Economics, DTU Management Engineering, Denmark. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have been hosting a PhD Visiting student, Mr Sebastian Franz, from 1st Feb to 31st March. |
| Impact | TBC |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | DESNZ secondee to Agile Carbon Budget Sprint collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration agreement enables a six month secondee (for GBP £41,200) from DESNZ to join the Agile Carbon Budget Sprint research team as a researcher to advise on the Government policy interests |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration agreement for a six month secondee from DESNZ to join the Agile Carbon Budget Sprint research team brings direct policy insights, priorities and networks to the Sprint's research. |
| Impact | Outputs related to this collaboration will emerge in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | DESNZ secondee to Agile Carbon Budget Sprint collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration agreement enables a six month secondee (for GBP £41,200) from DESNZ to join the Agile Carbon Budget Sprint research team as a researcher to advise on the Government policy interests |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration agreement for a six month secondee from DESNZ to join the Agile Carbon Budget Sprint research team brings direct policy insights, priorities and networks to the Sprint's research. |
| Impact | Outputs related to this collaboration will emerge in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Fireproofing the Amazon Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership between the Oxford Martin School as budget holder of the Agile Initiative and the School of Geography and the Environment has for a total grant of GBP £297,402.76 enabled a Sprint team to form to answer the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?' |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership between the budget recipient (School of Geography and the Environment) and Agile Initiative budget holder (Oxford Martin School) has enabled the Sprint researchers to investigate the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?'. |
| Impact | 'Record Burning of Amazonian flooded forests in 2023 and 2024' policy briefing report, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Policy_Brief_Record_Burning_ENGLISH.pdf, and active involvement in COP30 in Belem. Further outputs and outcomes will emerge in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Fireproofing the Amazon Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership between the Oxford Martin School as budget holder of the Agile Initiative and the School of Geography and the Environment has for a total grant of GBP £297,402.76 enabled a Sprint team to form to answer the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?' |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership between the budget recipient (School of Geography and the Environment) and Agile Initiative budget holder (Oxford Martin School) has enabled the Sprint researchers to investigate the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?'. |
| Impact | 'Record Burning of Amazonian flooded forests in 2023 and 2024' policy briefing report, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Policy_Brief_Record_Burning_ENGLISH.pdf, and active involvement in COP30 in Belem. Further outputs and outcomes will emerge in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Fireproofing the Amazon Agile Sprint and Amazon Environmental Research Institute collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This partnership has enabled an expert researcher from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute to contribute as a researcher in this Sprint funded for 15% of their time for a year to help answer the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership has enabled the Sprint to benefit from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute's expertise and contacts in helping to answer the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?'. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes directly related to this partnership will emerge in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Fireproofing the Amazon Agile Sprint and Amazon Environmental Research Institute collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This partnership has enabled an expert researcher from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute to contribute as a researcher in this Sprint funded for 15% of their time for a year to help answer the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership has enabled the Sprint to benefit from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute's expertise and contacts in helping to answer the research question 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?'. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes directly related to this partnership will emerge in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Flood resilience in the Thames Estuary Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Engineering Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration between the Oxford Martin School as the budget holder for the Agile Initiative and the Department of Engineering Science for a total grant of GBP £210,867.52 has convened a team of Sprint researchers to answer the research question 'How can the UK improve flood resilience in the Thames Estuary?'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration between the Oxford Martin School as the budget holder for the Agile Initiative and the Department of Engineering Science for a total grant of GBP £210,867.52 has enabled a team of Sprint researchers to conduct research to answer the research question 'How can the UK improve flood resilience in the Thames Estuary?'. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Flood resilience in the Thames Estuary Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration between the Oxford Martin School as the budget holder for the Agile Initiative and the Department of Engineering Science for a total grant of GBP £210,867.52 has convened a team of Sprint researchers to answer the research question 'How can the UK improve flood resilience in the Thames Estuary?'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration between the Oxford Martin School as the budget holder for the Agile Initiative and the Department of Engineering Science for a total grant of GBP £210,867.52 has enabled a team of Sprint researchers to conduct research to answer the research question 'How can the UK improve flood resilience in the Thames Estuary?'. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Food Foundation external collaborator agreement with Oxford University for the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint project |
| Organisation | The Food Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme, and as such organises external partner agreements with Sprint teams external partners outside of the University. As such, it will provide the Food Foundation with £32,800 at 80% FEC for the Food Foundation's total staff costs for their contribution to the Regenerative Agriculture Agile Sprint. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Food Foundation is a charitable organisation contributing expertise to the work of the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint at Oxford University. They co-authored, published and disseminated three of the Sprint's most important outputs (listed under outputs or outcomes, below). |
| Impact | https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-support-food-security-and-diet-goals; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/regenerative-agriculture-greenwashing-and-food-system-power-dynamics; https://www.tabledebates.org/sites/default/files/2025-12/Reckoning%20with%20Regeneration%20executive%20summary%20December%202025.pdf; |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Food Foundation external collaborator agreement with Oxford University for the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School at Oxford University manages the budget, administration and research support for the Agile Initiative programme, and as such organises external partner agreements with Sprint teams external partners outside of the University. As such, it will provide the Food Foundation with £32,800 at 80% FEC for the Food Foundation's total staff costs for their contribution to the Regenerative Agriculture Agile Sprint. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Food Foundation is a charitable organisation contributing expertise to the work of the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint at Oxford University. They co-authored, published and disseminated three of the Sprint's most important outputs (listed under outputs or outcomes, below). |
| Impact | https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/can-regenerative-agriculture-support-food-security-and-diet-goals; https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/regenerative-agriculture-greenwashing-and-food-system-power-dynamics; https://www.tabledebates.org/sites/default/files/2025-12/Reckoning%20with%20Regeneration%20executive%20summary%20December%202025.pdf; |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Forest-food nexus in global value chains Agile Sprint Oxford University Depts collaboration (2026) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as the holder of funds for the Agile Initiative has collaborated with the Department of Biology where the lead researcher is based to provide Biology with £249304.29 to investigate the Sprint research question 'Forest-food nexus in global value chains - How can action on deforestation in producing countries strengthen the UK's food system security and resilience?' to produce environmental solutions of use to DEFRA in particular. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as the holder of funds for the Agile Initiative has collaborated with the Department of Biology where the lead researcher is based to investigate the Sprint research question 'Forest-food nexus in global value chains - How can action on deforestation in producing countries strengthen the UK's food system security and resilience?' to produce environmental solutions of use to DEFRA in particular and add to the Agile Sprint research portfolio. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Forest-food nexus in global value chains Agile Sprint Oxford University Depts collaboration (2026) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as the holder of funds for the Agile Initiative has collaborated with the Department of Biology where the lead researcher is based to provide Biology with £249304.29 to investigate the Sprint research question 'Forest-food nexus in global value chains - How can action on deforestation in producing countries strengthen the UK's food system security and resilience?' to produce environmental solutions of use to DEFRA in particular. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as the holder of funds for the Agile Initiative has collaborated with the Department of Biology where the lead researcher is based to investigate the Sprint research question 'Forest-food nexus in global value chains - How can action on deforestation in producing countries strengthen the UK's food system security and resilience?' to produce environmental solutions of use to DEFRA in particular and add to the Agile Sprint research portfolio. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Grazing for Good Rapid Review |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Agile Initiative Sprint model and learning on generating policy-relevant environmental solutions provided the research model on which this collaboration, led by an Agile Initiative Research Fellow, is based. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership between Lake District National Park Authority, and DEFRA (Farming in Protected Landscapes (FIPL) programme is managed by the National Sheep Association, in partnership with local organisations including the Federation of Cumbria Commoners, Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association, West Lakeland Farmer-Led Nature Recovery CIC and Natural England. 'Grazing for Good' is a community led, interdisciplinary review of agri-environment policy on the Lake District High Fells. The review is a 3 month rapid research project and involves subject matter experts from James Hutton Institute, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), University of Exeter, and University of Oxford. Activites and forthcoming outputs include peer review of existing Lake District policy, policy Briefs for national Defra teams, and recommendations for future research; disciplines include: plant ecology, landscape ecology, agricultural ecology, farm business and rural sociology, agri-environment policy. |
| Impact | Planned outputs listed above are forthcoming. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Grazing for Good Rapid Review |
| Organisation | Lake District National Park Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Agile Initiative Sprint model and learning on generating policy-relevant environmental solutions provided the research model on which this collaboration, led by an Agile Initiative Research Fellow, is based. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This partnership between Lake District National Park Authority, and DEFRA (Farming in Protected Landscapes (FIPL) programme is managed by the National Sheep Association, in partnership with local organisations including the Federation of Cumbria Commoners, Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association, West Lakeland Farmer-Led Nature Recovery CIC and Natural England. 'Grazing for Good' is a community led, interdisciplinary review of agri-environment policy on the Lake District High Fells. The review is a 3 month rapid research project and involves subject matter experts from James Hutton Institute, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), University of Exeter, and University of Oxford. Activites and forthcoming outputs include peer review of existing Lake District policy, policy Briefs for national Defra teams, and recommendations for future research; disciplines include: plant ecology, landscape ecology, agricultural ecology, farm business and rural sociology, agri-environment policy. |
| Impact | Planned outputs listed above are forthcoming. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Green Alliance and Oxford University for the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint project |
| Organisation | Green Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School manages the budget, administration, and research support to interdisciplinary Sprint teams and arranges external partnership agreements with non-Oxford University organisations acting as formal partners on Sprint projects. As such, the Agile Initiative will provide the Green Alliance total staff costs on this Sprint for £20,044 at 80% FEC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Green Alliance is an independent environmental think tank and charity contributing expertise to the work of the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint at Oxford University, managed via the Oxford Martin School. They co-authored, published and disseminated the briefing report listed in outputs and outcomes, below. |
| Impact | See: https://green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/should-the-25-year-farming-roadmap-support-regenerative-agriculture/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Green Alliance and Oxford University for the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School manages the budget, administration, and research support to interdisciplinary Sprint teams and arranges external partnership agreements with non-Oxford University organisations acting as formal partners on Sprint projects. As such, the Agile Initiative will provide the Green Alliance total staff costs on this Sprint for £20,044 at 80% FEC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Green Alliance is an independent environmental think tank and charity contributing expertise to the work of the Agile Initiative Regenerative Agriculture Sprint at Oxford University, managed via the Oxford Martin School. They co-authored, published and disseminated the briefing report listed in outputs and outcomes, below. |
| Impact | See: https://green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/should-the-25-year-farming-roadmap-support-regenerative-agriculture/ |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Green approaches to public procurement Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Blavatnik School of Government |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the Blavatnik School of Government to enable Agile to provide £23624.88 funding to a researcher in the Blavatnik School of Government to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Green approaches to public procurement Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the Blavatnik School of Government to enable Agile to provide £23624.88 funding to a researcher in the Blavatnik School of Government to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | How can we manage uncertainties in habitat greenhouse gas emissions? |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration between Oxford University researcher in Biology and the Agile Initiative based at the Oxford Martin School is for an Agile Sprint. The Agile Initiative provides the funding and administrative and research support to facilitate the research undertaken by the researcher at the Department of Biology for the Agile Initiative. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This Agile Sprint started in October 2023 and ended in December 2024. It enabled researchers in the Department of Biology to address fundamental uncertainties in how changes in land use and adoption of specific management practices change greenhouse gas fluxes in UK habitats through robust statistical modelling of the uncertainties underpinning key grassland and peatland emission factors and examination of social and political implications, exploring how policy can focus on ecological restorations with a credible and robust environmental evidence base and ensure holistic decision-making where the consequences of any uncertainties are considered alongside broader socioeconomic benefits or trade-offs. |
| Impact | The Sprint research lead at the Department of Biology has been actively involved with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and The Wildlife Trusts to ensure the Sprint research best meets the needs of the relevant policymakers. This work has informed the policies of The Wildlife Trusts, and has been cited in the Draft Northern Ireland Climate Action Plan. Main outputs include https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ae14bb, https://doi.org/10.31220/agriRxiv.2025.00321, http://doi.org/10.5287/ora-g7ovqgkbe. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Land Use for Net Zero Hub |
| Organisation | James Hutton Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Alison Smith, who led the Agile Initiative's 'How do we scale up Nature-based Solutions?' Sprint, will be part of the 'Land Use for Net Zero' (LUNZ) hub. Alison Smith's contribution as part of the ECI will build on her work from the Agile Sprint that used FABLE to demonstrate ways in which food and agriculture policy can incorporate nature-based solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This consortium, co-led by The James Hutton Institute and the University of Leicester, will help the four UK administrations address greenhouse gas emissions from land use and agriculture. |
| Impact | The LUNZ Hub will provide UK and devolved nations timely evidence around land use, from renewable energy to soil carbon and green finance, to help drive the land transformations needed to achieve net zero by 2050. It will also play a pivotal role in helping to communicate more widely the critical importance of land and how it's used as a major carbon sink or source. Research grant is £86,092 (total) / £69,521 (80% funded by UKRI). This award terminates on 28th February 2027. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Land Use for Net Zero Hub |
| Organisation | University of Leicester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Alison Smith, who led the Agile Initiative's 'How do we scale up Nature-based Solutions?' Sprint, will be part of the 'Land Use for Net Zero' (LUNZ) hub. Alison Smith's contribution as part of the ECI will build on her work from the Agile Sprint that used FABLE to demonstrate ways in which food and agriculture policy can incorporate nature-based solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This consortium, co-led by The James Hutton Institute and the University of Leicester, will help the four UK administrations address greenhouse gas emissions from land use and agriculture. |
| Impact | The LUNZ Hub will provide UK and devolved nations timely evidence around land use, from renewable energy to soil carbon and green finance, to help drive the land transformations needed to achieve net zero by 2050. It will also play a pivotal role in helping to communicate more widely the critical importance of land and how it's used as a major carbon sink or source. Research grant is £86,092 (total) / £69,521 (80% funded by UKRI). This award terminates on 28th February 2027. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint David Ross Education Trust collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration enables co-creation, research input and knowledge exchange between the Oxford-based Agile Net Zero Education Sprint team and The David Ross Education Trust to ensure the Sprint research is also of benefit to the David Ross Education Trust, paying GBP £12,000 to the Trust for their input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration enables co-creation, research input and knowledge exchange between the Oxford-based Agile Net Zero Education Sprint team and The David Ross Education Trust to ensure education institutional knowledge from the Trust is embedded in the Sprint research. |
| Impact | To date, the Net Zero Education Agile Sprint BERA blog: https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/five-arguments-for-including-net-zero-in-the-curriculum Further outputs and outcomes will emerge in due course. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department for Continuing Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Earth Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Faculty of History |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Nuffield Department of Medicine |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint Oxford University Departments collaboration (2025) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | This interdisciplinary collaboration between the Oxford University departments has been formed to undertake research to answer the question 'How can curriculum designers provide better Net Zero education for the next generation?' - the Oxford Martin School as the Agile Initiative budget holder has distributed £398,648.50 GBP proportionately between the participating departments to facilitate this collaboration with the requisite expertise. |
| Impact | Outputs and outcomes will be generated in due course |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Scottish Government Multifunctional Landscapes project |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project will address the potential for integrated land use in multipurpose landscapes to deliver commercial outputs, such as agriculture and forestry, while simultaneously increasing ecosystem goods and services above those delivered by current Scottish land-use patterns. It will build on the work of the Sprint on Scaling up Nature-based Solutions and ties into the work from the Sprint that will be carried forward in the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery. The research will map and assess scenarios for developing multi-functional landscapes in Scotland, using three case studies representing upland, mid-level and lowland landscapes. This will involve three different approaches: Agile nature recovery / NbS maps, the Environmental Benefits from Nature Tool developed for Natural England, and a national-level analysis using the FABLE model for Scotland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Scottish Government Multifunctional Landscapes project is funded by the Scottish Government Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services Division (RESAS)who have provided a research grant of £50,000 for the research that commenced 31/10/2023 and terminates 31/3/2024. |
| Impact | A report will be generated at the end of the funding period (31/3/24) on pathways the upland, mid-level and lowland landscapes, co-designed with the Scottish Government: 1. The baseline, representing a single-use landscape focused on conventional production of food, timber or energy 2. A 'sustainable intensification' pathway using techniques such as improved crop or livestock breeding and precision agriculture to sustainably improve agricultural productivity 3. An 'agro-ecological pathway using techniques such as agro-forestry, hedgerow creation, organic soil amendments, cover crops and beetle banks to improve delivery of biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | The social and environmental dimensions of UK critical minerals Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the School of Geography and the Environment to enable Agile to provide £29665.93 funding to a researcher in The School of Geography and the Environment to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | The social and environmental dimensions of UK critical minerals Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the School of Geography and the Environment to enable Agile to provide £29665.93 funding to a researcher in The School of Geography and the Environment to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Understanding the contribution of water industry environmental spending to financing nature in the UK Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Martin School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the School of Geography and the Environment to enable Agile to provide £29269.64 funding to a researcher in The School of Geography and the Environment to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | Understanding the contribution of water industry environmental spending to financing nature in the UK Agile Initiative science to policy project |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | School of Geography and the Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Oxford Martin School as funder of the Agile Initiative has a collaboration agreement with the School of Geography and the Environment to enable Agile to provide £29269.64 funding to a researcher in The School of Geography and the Environment to undertake this science to policy project to contribute to Agile's research portfolio and environmental solutions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agile provides the funding and research support in return for the researcher delivering the project. |
| Impact | Too early for outputs or outcomes |
| Start Year | 2026 |
| Description | What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas? |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between researchers at University of Oxford departments with the Agile Initiative based at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Biology, and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Oxford for the Agile Sprint 'What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas?' that started April 2023 and will end June 2024 to enhance decision-making for the environmental impact assessment of proposed sites for sub-sea CO2 storage in offshore reservoirs to assess and reduce the tension between CO2 storage capacity and the risk of CO2 leakage or additional carbon loss through disruption of carbon currently stored in the marine ecosystem. Oxford Martin School manages the Agile Initiative administration and funding and provides research support for the collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint consisted of researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Biology and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment who are the active researchers representing the disciplinary expertise needed to answer the Sprint question, who conducted the active research for the Agile Initiative Sprint. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include: geology, geophysics, biogeochemistry, geography, biology, law. This collaboration led to the Sprint generating the following outputs based on the interdisciplinary primary research conducted to inform best practice, policy and regulatory considerations for the safe storage of carbon in UK shelf seas. Outputs include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sutton_etal_2024.pdf, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Evidence-Gaps-Offshore-GCS-Sep-2024-1.pdf, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Regulatory-Challenges-Offshore-GCS-Sep-2024-1.pdf, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583625001069, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/53/8/673/654869/Basin-scale-development-of-giant-collapse?redirectedFrom=fulltext, and https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10126/, https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10147/. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas? |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Earth Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between researchers at University of Oxford departments with the Agile Initiative based at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Biology, and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Oxford for the Agile Sprint 'What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas?' that started April 2023 and will end June 2024 to enhance decision-making for the environmental impact assessment of proposed sites for sub-sea CO2 storage in offshore reservoirs to assess and reduce the tension between CO2 storage capacity and the risk of CO2 leakage or additional carbon loss through disruption of carbon currently stored in the marine ecosystem. Oxford Martin School manages the Agile Initiative administration and funding and provides research support for the collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint consisted of researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Biology and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment who are the active researchers representing the disciplinary expertise needed to answer the Sprint question, who conducted the active research for the Agile Initiative Sprint. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include: geology, geophysics, biogeochemistry, geography, biology, law. This collaboration led to the Sprint generating the following outputs based on the interdisciplinary primary research conducted to inform best practice, policy and regulatory considerations for the safe storage of carbon in UK shelf seas. Outputs include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sutton_etal_2024.pdf, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Evidence-Gaps-Offshore-GCS-Sep-2024-1.pdf, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Regulatory-Challenges-Offshore-GCS-Sep-2024-1.pdf, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583625001069, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/53/8/673/654869/Basin-scale-development-of-giant-collapse?redirectedFrom=fulltext, and https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10126/, https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10147/. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas? |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Smith School of Enterprise and Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between researchers at University of Oxford departments with the Agile Initiative based at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Biology, and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Oxford for the Agile Sprint 'What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas?' that started April 2023 and will end June 2024 to enhance decision-making for the environmental impact assessment of proposed sites for sub-sea CO2 storage in offshore reservoirs to assess and reduce the tension between CO2 storage capacity and the risk of CO2 leakage or additional carbon loss through disruption of carbon currently stored in the marine ecosystem. Oxford Martin School manages the Agile Initiative administration and funding and provides research support for the collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Sprint consisted of researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Biology and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment who are the active researchers representing the disciplinary expertise needed to answer the Sprint question, who conducted the active research for the Agile Initiative Sprint. |
| Impact | Disciplines involved include: geology, geophysics, biogeochemistry, geography, biology, law. This collaboration led to the Sprint generating the following outputs based on the interdisciplinary primary research conducted to inform best practice, policy and regulatory considerations for the safe storage of carbon in UK shelf seas. Outputs include: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sutton_etal_2024.pdf, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Evidence-Gaps-Offshore-GCS-Sep-2024-1.pdf, https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Regulatory-Challenges-Offshore-GCS-Sep-2024-1.pdf, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583625001069, https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/53/8/673/654869/Basin-scale-development-of-giant-collapse?redirectedFrom=fulltext, and https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10126/, https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10147/. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Title | Agile ground-truthing guidance for biodiversity maps, hosted on Knowledge Hub website |
| Description | Guidance document created by the Agile Nature-based Solutions Sprint team describing how to ground-truth the Agile opportunity maps through ecological surveys. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This has been shared with stakeholders in Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Humberside, Charlbury Parish, North-East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster, and Mid-Cherwell to accompany the opportunity maps created for them and to use should the opportunity maps be implemented as part of their respective local nature recovery strategies. |
| Title | Algorithm using Anderson acceleration for Earth System Models spin-up |
| Description | This new improved technique is an algorithm using Anderson acceleration for Earth System Models spin-up and the scripts used to perform the simulations presented in the paper 'Efficient spin-up of Earth System Models using sequence acceleration' along the data required to reproduce the figures in the paper are available at https://zenodo.org/records/10442227. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This product is being trialled for use among earth system model communities internationally, to conduct their own ESM spin-up to inform environmental policy planning. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/10442227 |
| Title | Material Flow Analysis (MFA) tool for regional nutrient flow mapping |
| Description | An MFA tool to produce mapping of regional nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorous) flows based on Environment Agency's Waste Data Interrogator dataset to be hosted on GitHub |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Changes in efficiency and effectiveness of public service delivery, effective solutions to societal problems, improved environmental sustainability. |
| Title | Python code for generating Agile opportunity maps |
| Description | Python code for combining multiple widely available datasets into a single map identifying the most suitable locations for nature recovery and nature-based solutions, created by the Agile Nature-based Solutions Sprint team. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The use has been demonstrated by the creation of bespoke opportunity maps for specific areas which are being trialled by Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Humberside, Charlbury Parish, North-East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster, and Mid-Cherwell to inform their respective local nature recovery strategies. The code and accompanying guidance are freely available on the Agile NbS Knowledge Hub website for wider adoption as they can be used anywhere in the country. |
| Title | Seismic Network Capability Assessment Tool Version 2.0 |
| Description | Complete rewrite of the Python software SN-CAST v1.0 to improve i/o, processing efficiency, implement UK magnitude scale, and to support seismic arrays and other instrument types |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| URL | https://github.com/Jasplet/sncast |
| Title | Seismic beamforming code for shelf seas CCS Agile Sprint |
| Description | GitHub SeisSeeker is a package for performing beamforming for earthquake detection. It was developed initailly for detection of icequakes at glaciers and icesheets, but could be applied to a range of earthquake detection problems. A decription of how the package works can be found here: Thomas S. Hudson, Alex M. Brisbourne, Sofia-Katerina Kufner, J-Michael Kendall, and Andy M. Smith. (in review). "Array processing in cryoseismology". Submitted to: The Cryosphere. This version of SeisSeeker has been modified for application to monitoring of North Sea Microseismicity. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The software was used to monitor North Sea microseismicity as part of the research into safe CCS in shelf seas Agile Sprint. |
| URL | https://github.com/Jasplet/SeisSeeker |
| Title | Seismic data telemetry code |
| Description | Software to facilitate automated data acquisition from remotely installed seismometers using http requests |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None known |
| URL | https://github.com/kendall-group-oxford/seismic-data-pipeline.git |
| Title | Software ("andacc") implementing Anderson Acceleration for ESM spin-up |
| Description | GitHub Anderson Acceleration for solving fixed point problems and spin-up of seasonally forced ocean biogeochemical models This repository contains code for solving fixed point problems using Anderson Acceleration. While it can be used for any fixed point problem it was designed to enable use of the code on batch HPC systems for computing equilibrium solutions of periodically-forced ocean models. It is based on the MATLAB routine AndAcc.m originally written by Homer F. Walker (Anderson acceleration: Algorithms and implementations, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mathematical Sciences Department Research Report MS-6-15-50, 10/14/2011) with extensive modifications as per Khatiwala (2022), "Fast spin-up of geochemical tracers in ocean circulation and climate models, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sys., https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003447. Khatiwala, S. (2024). Efficient spin-up of Earth System Models using Sequence Acceleration, Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn2839 Khatiwala, S. (2024). Efficient spin-up of Earth System Models using Sequence Acceleration, Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn2839 |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software has been adapted and modified for use in Earth System Modelling spin-up, and evidenced in the following publication, Khatiwala, S. (2024). Efficient spin-up of Earth System Models using Sequence Acceleration, Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn2839. It is being adopted internationally for ESM spin-up. |
| URL | https://github.com/samarkhatiwala/AndersonAcceleration |
| Title | Sprint 6 - Nature-based solutions are critical for putting Brazil on track towards net-zero emissions by 2050 |
| Description | Webmapping tool to disseminate the results of the article Soterroni et al., 2023 hosted on GitHub. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The tool has facilitated further engagement with policymakers/stakeholders. |
| Description | "'Phantom habitats': More than one quarter of BNG units at 'high risk of non-delivery', says new research" ENDS Report, 12 Oct 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | ENDS Report article citing Biodiversity Net Gain Agile Sprint's research and academic paper in relation to implementing BNG |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.endsreport.com/article/1840464/phantom-habitats-one-quarter-bng-units-high-risk-non-deli... |
| Description | "ANALYSIS: Biodiversity experts generally welcome strong UK 'net gain' credit pricing tiers despite uncertain outlook" Carbon Pulse, 4th August 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Carbon Pulse analysis article citing Biodiversity Net Gain Agile Sprint's research with a link to the Sprint manual/guide on assessing biodiversity net gain plans |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://carbon-pulse.com/215312/ |
| Description | "Can building new homes actually improve nature?" Sky News on YouTube November 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Biodiversity Net Gain Agile Sprint researcher interviewed on Sky News relating to implementation of BNG in England. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xX2Ye75emvQ&list=PLG8IrydigQfff8mUzKAZQv-CN2Yh2EQnv&inde... |
| Description | "Developers in England will be forced to create new habitats for wildlife - here's how it works" - article in the Conversation 15 Feb 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article in The Conversation written by biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint researchers to coincide with 10% BNG policy implementation that links to the Sprint research and research papers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/developers-in-england-will-be-forced-to-create-habitats-for-wildlife-her... |
| Description | "England brings in biodiversity rules to force builders to compensate for loss of nature" The Guardian 12 February 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article cites the research conducted by the biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint in relation to 10% BNG policy going live. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/12/england-brings-in-biodiversity-net-gain-rules-to... |
| Description | 'Crossing Boundaries: the building blocks of good communication' training session November 2024 |
| 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 | Agile funded this interactive training workshop on how best to communicate research within and beyond academia to achieve impact to build the capacity of interdisciplinary researchers working on Agile Sprints and Oxford University more generally that led to feedback indicating researchers would incorporate learning from the session in their research and engagement practice going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/crossing-boundaries-from-research-to-impact/ |
| Description | 'Expert Comment: Building faster, building fairer: can we make growth work for nature? Oxford University October 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Expert comment by the biodiversity Agile Initiative Sprint lead relating to dangers for nature and biodiversity in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-10-29-expert-comment-building-faster-building-fairer-can-we-make-grow... |
| Description | 'Obstructionism? This is a plea for due process' Zero Hour article taken from ENDS Report, April 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article from the biodiversity Agile Initiative Sprint's researchers calling for a pause to the planning Bill to ensure due process and for changes not to be considered illegal in international law |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.zerohour.uk/planningbillpause/ |
| Description | 'Threats to nature in Labour's planning Bill, The Guardian, April 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A letter submitted to the Guardian by the biodiversity Agile Initiative Sprint lead in response to a previous Guardian article relating to the planning bill, explaining how the bill is ignoring scientific evidence and will bypass existing safeguards for biodiversity gains. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/15/threats-to-nature-in-labours-planning-bill#:~:text=... |
| Description | A new model for applied environmental research? Agile Initiative Showcase 22 Nov 2023 |
| 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 | An all-day interactive in person event with panels, discussions and research posters to share Agile research results and discuss themes relevant to attendees that secured further engagement and interest in Agile. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/agile-initiative-showcase-2023/ |
| Description | A new model for applied environmental research? Agile Initiative Showcase panel discussion on learning from recent progress November 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr Soterroni contributed to the Agile Showcase panel discussion on 'Learning from recent progress' which discussed examples of high-quality impact-focused rapid research from within Oxford, including Dr Soterroni's Agile Sprint on How can Brazil reach net zero emissions, and the discussion incorporated perspectives from research users in government and industry/third sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/rapid-policy-focused-research-can-we-be-both-ambitious-an... |
| Description | AbilityNet Embedding Accessibility at Every Stage of Your Project May 2024 |
| 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 | Bespoke interactive training webinar provided by AbilityNet on behalf of Agile on improving accessibility for websites that was attended by the Agile Initiative programme team and other relevant professional services staff at Oxford University that enhanced understanding of how to embed diversity and inclusion into every aspect of a project and websites in particular. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://abilitynet.org.uk/workplace/workplace-accessibility-training |
| Description | AbilityNet How to Create Accessible Documents and Presentations training July 2024 |
| 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 | Bespoke interactive webinar training provided by AbilityNet on behalf of Agile on creating accessible documents and presentations that was attended by the Agile programme team and other relevant professional services staff at Oxford University that increased knowledge and best practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://abilitynet.org.uk/workplace/workplace-accessibility-training |
| Description | AbilityNet inclusive meetings training workshop September 2024 |
| 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 | Bespoke interactive webinar training workshop provided by AbilityNet on behalf of Agile on running accessible meetings and events attended by the Agile programme team and other relevant professional services staff in Oxford University that led to enhanced knowledge and changes to reflect best practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://abilitynet.org.uk/workplace/workplace-accessibility-training |
| Description | Agile Brazil Net Zero Sprint lead expert opinion piece in The Conversation Brazil (21 January 2026) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aline Soterroni wrote an expert opinion published in The Conversation Brazil on how the recent weakening of protections for the Amazon is a political choice that ignores science and has severe consequences not only for biodiversity and climate, but also for food systems and national security, entitled "Esvaziamento da Moratória da Soja: uma decisão política na contramão da ciência". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/esvaziamento-da-moratoria-da-soja-uma-decisao-politica-na-contramao-da-c... |
| Description | Agile Brazil Net Zero Sprint lead expert opinion piece in The Conversation UK (29 January 2026) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aline Soterroni wrote an expert opinion piece published in The Conversation UK on how the recent weakening of protections for the Amazon is a political choice that ignores science and has severe consequences not only for biodiversity and climate, but also for food systems and national security, entitled "Weakening the soy moratorium in Brazil: a political choice that ignores the science". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/weakening-the-soy-moratorium-in-brazil-a-political-choice-that-ignores-t... |
| Description | Agile Brazil Net Zero Sprint lead interviewed as part of Expert Comment: Reflections on COP30 in Belém (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Aline Soterroni was interviewed to provide expert comment following COP30 in Belem that highlighted the importance of initiatives such as the Tropical Forests Forever Facility in light of consensus around halting deforestation and forest degradation had not been reached during COP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11-25-expert-comment-reflections-cop30-bel-m |
| Description | Agile Connect event Regenerative Agriculture Sprint presentation to FAI Farms and PFLA group of farmers, Keble College (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Regenerative Agriculture Sprint team presented their research to an audience of environmental researchers, farmers, NGOs and other agricultural practitioners to create knowledge exchange between practitioners and researchers to help inform policy oriented research practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/connecting-practitioners-and-researchers/ |
| Description | Agile Connect: Practice, Research & Policy (October 2025) |
| 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 | This Agile Initiative community building and training event event brought researchers back into conversation with practitioners to discuss emerging findings from several Agile Sprints and their practical implications for farming and nature recovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/connecting-practitioners-and-researchers/ |
| Description | Agile Defra webinar (2025) |
| 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 | This programme-level Agile Initiative webinar specifically for members of Defra in October 2025 covered what Agile is achieving across the 17 Sprint projects, what Agile is learning about effective science-policy collaboration, and explored practical ways for Agile researchers and Defra to collaborate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Director Prof. Nathalie Seddon interviewed for reflections on COP30 (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative Director Nathalie Seddon interviewed for her perspectives following her participation along with other Agile researchers as part of the Oxford University delegation to COP30 in Belem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11-25-expert-comment-reflections-cop30-bel-m |
| Description | Agile EDI Officer-led EDI Responsiveness Matrix and Toolkit workshops (x2 November 2025) |
| 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 | These Oxford University Research Strategy and Policy Unit (RSPU) workshops focused on introducing and encouraging use of a new tool and also provided an opportunity to informally share lessons learned from Agile. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Initiative Can we turn waste into fertiliser Sprint webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative website page explaining the work of the how can we turn waste into fertiliser Sprint's research findings with links to its outputs and related news items to encourage further engagement with the Sprint research findings; requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/can-we-turn-waste-into-fertiliser/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative EDI Retreat, 19-20 November 2024 |
| 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 | A two day retreat workshop organised by the Agile Initiative EDI Officer, facilitated by experts, to bring together members of the four NERC Changing the Environment awards to discuss and exchange knowledge around issues around EDI in research practice that has led to ongoing collaborative working around EDI between the four Changing the Environment awards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/reflections-from-agiles-edi-retreat/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative Equality Impact Assessments presentation at the EDI CoP Training Conference, September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation with EDU staff at the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Community of Practice Training Conference September 2024 on why and how to complete Equality Impact Assessments, based on the Equality Impact Assessments introduced in the Agile Initiative programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://edu.web.ox.ac.uk/cop-equality-impact-assessments |
| Description | Agile Initiative How can Brazil reach net zero emissions Sprint webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative website page explaining the work of the how can Brazil reach net zero emissions Sprint's research findings with links to its outputs and related news items to encourage further engagement with the Sprint research findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-can-brazil-reach-net-zero-emissions/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative How do we scale up nature-based solutions Sprint webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative website page explaining the work of the 'how do we scale up nature-based solutions?' Sprint's research findings with links to its outputs and related news items to encourage further engagement with the Sprint research findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-do-we-scale-up-nature-based-solutions/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative LinkedIn profile created November 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative LinkedIn page created to share our events, findings and learning more widely that was set up in November 2024 that already has 134 followers and has generated further engagement and debate around policy oriented interdisciplinary environmental research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-initiative/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative Policy Skills Retreat (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This two day policy skills retreat encompassed sessions with Defra, Skillfluence and Crossing Boundaries training for a group of interdisciplinary and policy engaged early career researchers to enhance their future academic and/or professional policy engagement skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Initiative Research Planning workshop series YouTube videos 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Recordings of the presentation sections of the Agile Initiative Research Planning workshop series, covering how Agile approaches a Theory of Change, Equality Impact Assessment, policy engagement and co-creation for impact, interdisciplinarity, and leading and managing an Agile Sprint that are now part of the co-creation support to potential Sprint teams putting together a Sprint proposal. These videos have contributed to a better understanding of Sprints and policy pull in expressions of interest and full proposals submitted following Sprint funding calls in spring and autumn 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnbIQWlXwD5PsbCrA6pUBCPoWwPbSZL6e |
| Description | Agile Initiative Summer School 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Agile organised a week long interactive in person 'grad school' style event for early career researchers conducting environmental/policy relevant research with contributions from decision makers, academics and research programme representatives to create connections and explore approaches for situating science into policy development, share learning on connecting across the science-policy divide and influencing public discourse and practical exercise in developing a rapid-response policy-driven research project to respond to policy needs in an 'Agile' fashion that furthered Agile's reach and connected into a wider research network. Following the Summer School, attendees agreed to share their contact details with each other to continue their knowledge exchange and shared connections, and provided feedback that shaped Agile's thinking on developing its interdisciplinary cohort, the experience of early career researchers on the Agile Sprints, and fostered ongoing connections and shared activities between the four Changing the Environment programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/the-agile-initiative-summer-school-2023/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas Sprint webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative website page explaining the work of the what do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas Sprint's ongoing research to encourage further engagement with the Sprint, which helped to secure a high level of engagement with the Sprint's March 2024 stakeholder workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/what-do-we-need-to-know-to-safely-store-co2-beneath-ou... |
| Description | Agile Initiative cited in 'Pulse' webpage on nature protection and recovery (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Agile Initiative and key research from Agile Sprints relating to Nature-based Solutions and nature recovery cited in a summary of research and initiatives at Oxford University that are supporting nature protection and recovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-environment/nature |
| Description | Agile Initiative nutrient flows webinar with Defra to discuss the Sprint's research findings September 2024 |
| 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 | This webinar provided a summary of the Sprint's research findings to interested parties in Defra, with the intention to inform future policy making activities in the areas pertaining to nutrient management. Defra attendees confirmed that the research was relevant and useful to nutrient waste flow management policies under the new government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/working-with-policy-presenting-research-to-defra/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative presentation to the Social Sciences Division Impact Forum (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lucy Rodwell from the Agile Initiative gave a presentation on the Agile research model and the Sprint portfolio, highlighting impacts and challenges to date to an audience of Social Sciences Division researchers and professional services staff involved in generating and assessing impactful research to share learning and enhance engagement with Agile. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Agile Initiative programme research webinar on 'The role of publics and deliberation', June 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Webinar to explain, expand on and discuss the Agile programme research discussion paper 'The role of publics and deliberation at the environmental science-policy interface' to better conceptualise publics and how they might be used to engage with the environmental science-policy interface. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/wbeP2udr3dE?feature=shared |
| Description | Agile Initiative website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative website with blogs, news items and registration of interest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk |
| Description | Agile Initiative website Biodiversity Net Gain Sprint specific website page with outputs and related news items |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative website BNG Sprint-specific webpage with links to outputs and related news items to share news and outputs and increase engagement with the Sprint research findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-do-we-account-for-biodiversity/ |
| Description | Agile Initiative website How can maritime shipping transition to green ammonia as fuel Sprint webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile Initiative website page explaining the work of the how can maritime shipping transition to green ammonia as fuel Sprint's research findings with links to its outputs and related news items to encourage further engagement with the Sprint research findings, such as the February 2024 webinar on the future of green ammonia energy for shipping. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-can-maritime-shipping-transition-to-green-ammonia-... |
| Description | Agile Initiative website news items and blogs, 50+ since 2024 Researchfish return |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blogs, events listing and news items to share Agile research, learning, and generate further engagement with the Agile Initiative. These notifications have helped to raise Agile's profile within and beyond Oxford University, as reflected by the number of expressions of interest submitted to the autumn 2024 Sprint call. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/?sf_paged=3 |
| Description | Agile Initiative website redesigned with more content September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Redesigned Agile Initiative website with more detail on our approach to Agile based on learning to date to help further share the Agile research model within and beyond Oxford University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Agile Insights termly newsletter, May 2024, September 2024 and January 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A termly newsletter to our registered subscribers internal and external to the University to share a summary of news, forthcoming activities and events, and outputs. URLs for May and September issues as follows: https://mailchi.mp/ec387eb244ca/youre-invited-upcoming-events-from-the-agile-initiative-6236549?e=1f22e13d6d; https://mailchi.mp/4c61704d9b23/youre-invited-upcoming-events-from-the-agile-initiative-6257694?e=1f22e13d6d |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/821dad941dc6/news-from-the-agile-initiative-20250130?e=1f22e13d6d |
| Description | Agile Insights termly newsletters (summer and autumn 2025, spring 2026) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A termly newsletter to the Agile Initiative's registered subscribers internal and external to the University to share a summary of news, forthcoming activities and events and outputs, sent during the summer and autumn terms 2025, and spring term 2026. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025,2026 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/bf238bff91fa/news-from-the-agile-initiative-9256864?e=1f22e13d6d |
| Description | Agile Interdisciplinary researchers' lunchtime learning peer community group sessions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 6 December 2022 - Interdisciplinarity in the Agile Initiative model and lunchtime series design: 9 Agile researchers attended 17 January 2023 - How to make interdisciplinary research work in practice: 12 Agile researchers attended (1 of whom presented) 9 March 2023 - Navigating interdisciplinary and engaged research; insights, reflections, and lessons learned: 6 Agile researchers attended (1 of whom presented) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Agile NbS Sprint member invited as expert speaker and panel member and Labour National Policy Forum Clean Energy Commission session 2025 |
| 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 | Speaking on 'How can Labour protect and enhance the natural world, and how can this support the government's clean energy mission?' to inform future Labour Party Policy. The researcher presented slides and responded to panel questions concerning the importance of nature for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and how to protect nature in planning decisions and other policies related to the government's clean energy policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Agile NbS Sprint member invited to present at the Oxford Nature Conversations Project Citizen's Jury on people and nature 2025 |
| 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 | Agile NbS Sprint researcher was invited to give a presentation on opportunities for urban biodiversity in Oxford at the Oxford Nature Conversations Project Citizens' Jury on People & Nature |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Oxford-Citizens-Jury-on-People-Nature-1.p... |
| Description | Agile NbS Sprint member presented at Nature, Food and Farming (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on balancing food and nature: complex trade-offs between sustainable UK farming and global biodiversity loss at Nature, Food and Farming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-symposium-2025/ |
| Description | Agile Sprint 'Can we turn waste into fertiliser?' stakeholder focus group meeting 19th June 2023 |
| 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 | Agile Sprint -Can we turn waste into fertiliser?- organised a focus group on 19th June 2023. The aim of the focus group was to provide an integrated strategy for regional nutrient resource management with Leicestershire as a case study and another region for comparison, and the objectives were to map the nutrient flows at a regional level to identify challenges and opportunities, and explore/design technical and business schemes to improve recovery and utilisation of nutrients; decisions made or influenced. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Agile Sprint 5 meeting with Northern Endurance Partnership Environmental lead Jan 12th 2024 |
| 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 | The Agile shelf seas carbon capture and storage Sprint team met with the environmental lead from Northern Endurance Partnership to further discuss Sprint research and potential follow-on funding for desk study/report on seismic monitoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Agile Sprint 5 meeting with the Northern Endurance Partnership 11th December 2023 |
| 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 | The Agile shelf seas carbon capture and storage Sprint team met with Jon Tarasewicz from Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) to discuss the Sprint's research. This led to being put in touch with the NEP environmental lead to discuss potential follow-on funding for desk study/report on seismic monitoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Agile Sprint 5 presentation to companies who have recently secured licenses for CO2 storage in the North Sea 12th December 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To involve industry stakeholders with interest in the North Sea research site by presenting the Agile shelf sea carbon capture and storage Sprint's initial findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Agile Sprint 6 research lead attended COP28 in Dubai to provide scientific advice and support to negotiators 2023 |
| 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 | The Research Lead for the Agile Sprint 'How can Brazil reach net zero emissions?' provided scientific advice and support to negotiators for NbS use to achieve Brazil Net Zero 2030 and 2050 goals and inform Brazil's nationally determined contribution (NDC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.cop28.com/en/ |
| Description | Agile Sprint researchers interviewed and featured in TV Cultura's COP30 documentary (18 December 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Sprint researchers Dr Aline Soterroni and Dr Erika Berenguer interviewed by and feature in a COP30 documentary by the Brazilian broadcast channel TV Cultura, where they highlighted the importance of nature and the synergies agenda in the climate debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/fDCT_ppbZtI?si=qHGIAAdW_-JQkX8K&t=1413 |
| Description | Agile co-funded Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery Conference November 2024 |
| 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 | The Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery Conference 4th November 2024, co-funded by the Agile Initiative's Enabling Fund through its sponsorship of the evening reception, brought together diverse voices to critically examine the role of digital technologies in addressing environmental and biodiversity crises. Agile's support enabled an inclusive networking opportunity that fostered meaningful dialogue and collaboration among participants that enhanced interdisciplinary research capacity and collaboration and led to plans to publish an edited collection of conference proceedings in the British Ecological Society Journal People and Nature. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/digital-dimensions-of-nature-recovery/ |
| Description | Agile co-funded Scope 3 Challenge workshops July 2024 |
| 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 | The Agile Enabling Fund funded four workshops in partnership between Oxford Net Zero and the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London to deliver an academic review paper of the role that market-based approaches can play in reducing corporate Scope 3 emissions on the path to net zero as a rapid response to the SBTi board's proposal that carbon credits should be used to mitigate Scope 3 emissions, that also led to two policy internal policy briefings that Grantham has used in discussion with DESNZ and the CCC and the formation of new interdisciplinary partnerships and three briefings which were used by SBTi to inform updates to its Corporate Net Zero Standard and potential use of carbon credits for Scope 3 mitigation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/deliberative-workshops-to-address-the-scope-3-challenge/ |
| Description | Agile fieldtrip to FAI farms (2025) |
| 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 | This community building and training event event brought researchers and practitioners together on a fieldtrip to FAI farms focused on regenerative farming and nature recovery. The visit provided hands-on learning and created space for discussion about how academic research translates into real-world land management practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/bridging-research-and-practice-a-field-trip-to-fai-farms/ |
| Description | Agile green ammonia for shipping Sprint participation during London International Shipping Week 2023 |
| 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 | Agile Sprint team shared results on transition to green ammonia for shipping at London International Shipping Week 11-15 September 2023 during DfT's Clean Maritime Day (14 September) resulting in direct engagement with the Port of London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://londoninternationalshippingweek.com/Clean-Maritime-Day-package-sets-UK-on-course-to-make-gre... |
| Description | Agile interdisciplinary lunch and learn session 19 June 2023 |
| 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 | Agile peer support lunchtime session to explore Agile researchers' experiences of interdisciplinarity to date that generated further learning for the programme and supported researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Agile involvement in the British Ecological Society Symposium (2025) |
| 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 | Agile was both a formal collaborator and content contributor to the BES Symposium in June 2025 to tackle the debates around environmental impacts of food production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/agile-at-the-bes-symposium/ |
| Description | Agile newsletter 'Agile Insights' February 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Opt-in newsletter delivered via mailchimp for researchers, external partners and stakeholders plus those who have registered interest to publicise Agile. The February issue generated interest in the February 2024 calls for expressions of interest for new Agile Sprints. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/2c1d807f16b5/youre-invited-upcoming-events-from-the-agile-initiative-6228226 |
| Description | Agile newsletter 'Agile Insights' June 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Opt-in newsletter delivered via mailchimp for researchers, external partners and stakeholders plus those who have registered interest to publicise Agile. The first issue led to responses to the May 2023 call for new Sprints expressions of interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/10392e7a3faa/youre-invited-upcoming-events-from-the-agile-initiative-6042662 |
| Description | Agile newsletter 'Agile Insights' October 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Online opt-in newsletter via mailchimp summarising outputs, activities and flagging forthcoming events. The October newsletter directly contributed to interest in the November Agile Showcase event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/95cba7e4c51d/youre-invited-upcoming-events-from-the-agile-initiative-6050214 |
| Description | Agile participation at NERC CtE Joint Strategic Partner Forum November 2024 |
| 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 | Workshop to discuss strategic direction with NERC and the CtE programmes that discussed cross-cutting concerns and activities that led to plans being made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Agile presentation at the OPEN networking day (2025) |
| 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 | Lucy Rodwell from the Agile Initiative gave a presentation on the Agile Sprint model and its value for policy professionals at the Oxford Policy Engagement Network's networking day to an audience of policy professionals and policy engaged researchers in July 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/caitlin-hafferty-b86289b2_at-st-antonys-college-oxford-today-for-acti... |
| Description | Agile presentation recording at Meeting Minds (2025) |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr John Lynch and Professor Ilina Singh were recorded presenting on the Agile Initiative programme and the Greenhouse gas removal and Nature as a policy solution to mental health Sprint findings to an audience of Oxford University alumni and other supporters at the Meeting Mind, September 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/sz5NTxeJwSg |
| Description | Agile programme research presentation 'What's the role of scientists - from evidence providers to policy co-producers?' at the Conservation Optimism Summit, September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Webinar using Agile Initiative learning as an example to help participants reflect on their conservation decision-making processes and the role of evidence and science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://summit24.wpenginepowered.com/programme |
| Description | Agile researchers careers lunchtime session 27 Nov 2023 |
| 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 | Careers advice session for environmental interdisciplinary researchers on options within and beyond academia plus sources of support in University of Oxford to support those on short-term research contracts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/career-building/ |
| Description | Agile safe shelf seas CCS Sprint presentation to SHARP Storage 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to introduce the shelf-seas carbon capture and storage Agile Sprint and share early findings to create engagement and support with a related research consortium (SHARP Storage). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action 27 January 2026 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bothaina Eltigani presented Agile research outputs alongside Mona Ibrahim and Lucie Cluver with the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and discussed evidence dissemination plans with other key partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | BNG advice given to commercial practitioners in the UK - Joe's Blooms business, Bayswater Brook developers, University of Oxford Begbroke Science Park developers, 2023 |
| 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 | Meetings shared biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint results and the Sprint's BNG checker tool to communicate to commercial practitioners and developers how to achieve 'best practice' BNG in advance of the policy implementation which led to changes in commercial practitioners' and developers' BNG plans. Begbroke Science Park has subsequently committed to a target of 20% BNG. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Behavioural Change workshops (x3; 2025) |
| 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 | In 2025 Agile commissioned three behavioural change workshops tailored for Agile and its community from Social Change. The online workshops introduced behavioural change, then moved onto research culture change, before engaging with behavioural change for policy and organisational influence. Each workshop was attended by ~12 participants and the workshops resulted in Agile's influencing action plan to help achieve its goal of influencing research culture at Oxford University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Biodiversity Net Gain Sprint Partner Engagement activities |
| 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 | The project inception meeting took place on 28th April 2022, with four further workshops held on 30th, 20th September 2022, 12th Dec 2022 and 28th Feb 2023. The workshops all included our main partners from Mott Macdonald and BBOWT. The 20th of September workshop also included collaborators from the Treasury and Defra. A field trip to a local BBOWT site, and a stakeholder engagement workshop and networking event, was hold on 13th December. These events are important for bringing together the work package teams, as well as key partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Blog written by NeurOx Young People's Advisory Group on the DPA workshop (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This blog written by the NeurOX Young Person's Advisory Group, who helped to co-create outputs and contribute to the Sprint's research activities, demonstrated the significance and experience of being involved with the DPA workshop as a young person. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://neuroxypag.org/nature-policy-and-mental-health-highlights-from-a-day-of-action-in-london/ |
| Description | Brasil deve desmatar área equivalente a MG até 2050 projeta estudo de Oxford - media interview to 'BBC News Brasil' 2023 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Media interview to highlight findings from journal publication of research funded by Agile on the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/ckdpygjg99go |
| Description | Brasil pode reduzir emissões drasticamente com soluções baseadas na natureza, aponta estudo - media interview to 'O Eco' 2023 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Media interview to highlight findings from journal publication on research funded by Agile on the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://oeco.org.br/reportagens/brasil-pode-reduzir-emissoes-drasticamente-com-solucoes-baseadas-na-... |
| Description | Brazil can reach zero emission of pollutants with land use changes - media interview to 'Brasil de Fato' 2023 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Media interview to highlight findings from journal publication of research funded by Agile on the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2023/12/21/brazil-can-reach-zero-emission-of-pollutants-with-land-us... |
| Description | CIPR EDI Series training May-Oct 2024 |
| 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 | Training modules on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion purchased by Agile from CIPR that were used to train everyone involved in Agile governance, Agile Sprint researchers past and present, and other relevant professional services staff in Oxford University that enhanced working knowledge and understanding of EDI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://cipr.co.uk/CIPR/CIPR/Learn_Develop/Training/EDI_Training.aspx |
| Description | COP30 |
| 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 | Agile Director Prof. Nathalie Seddon, and Agile Sprint 16 researcher Dr Erika Berenguer (Head of Oxford delegation) and Agile Sprint 6 researcher Dr Aline Soterroni (Deputy Head of Oxford delegation) attended COP30 with full access to the Green zone to apply their research learning from Agile to the discussions, events and debates at COP30 to help lobby for halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation and shared scientific knowledge on climate-nature linkages demonstrating that reversing forestry trends is integral to global net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/rainforests-nature-and-biodiversity-at-cop30/ |
| Description | COP30 - O Legado da Conferência do Clima no Brasil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer from the Agile 'Fireproofing the Amazon' Sprint was interviewed about the policy brief that was developed under her Sprint project by a Brazilian TV channel, TV Cultura. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDCT_ppbZtI&list=PLdnZUpbQ9Pfm8T1Hm4pvv6u0vEYxrc4r8 |
| Description | COP30: ciência alerta que Amazônia pode estar entrando em trajetória irreversÃvel (COP30: science alerts that the Amazon may be entering an irreversible trajectory) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer from the Agile 'Fireproofing the Amazon' Sprint was interviewed by the largest Brazilian newspaper, O Globo, about the policy brief that was developed under her Agile Sprint 'How can we fireproof the Amazon?'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/cop-30-amazonia/noticia/2025/11/18/cop30-ciencia-alerta-que-amazonia... |
| Description | Carbon Brief Guest post: "Fixing the gaps in England's 'biodiversity net-gain' policy", Sophus zu Ermgassen 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This guest post in The Carbon Brief from the Agile Biodiversity Net Gain Sprint researcher Dr Sophus zu Ermgassen delivers insights from the Sprint research on how to address the gaps in BNG policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-fixing-the-gaps-in-englands-biodiversity-net-gain-policy/ |
| Description | Carbon Budget Sprint DESNZ stakeholders visits to INET, Oxford (x3) 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team hosted three visits to INET Oxford by four different DESNZ staff members which included meetings to collaborate on the Sprint project as well as attendance at other Oxford seminars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Carbon Budget Sprint webpage on Agile website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This webpage is to facilitate further engagement with the Sprint, its news and outputs, and to help with output and learning dissemination. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/carbon-budgets/ |
| Description | Carbon Budget Sprint working group meetings with DESNZ (2025) |
| 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 | These formal working group meetings comprise quarterly oversight board and monthly forum for collaboration and co-creation involving senior and junior staff from DESNZ, Treasury, Dept for Transport and 10 Downing Street to keep Sprint research relevant to the policy recipients. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Carbon Pulse article "Over one-quarter of biodiversity net gain units at risk of non-compliance, says new study" 9 October 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article in Carbon Pulse describing Biodiversity Net Gain Sprint's research findings with a hyperlink to an academic paper produced by the Sprint team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://carbon-pulse.com/228023/ |
| Description | Careers Service lunchtime session for Agile Initiative researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Careers Service lunchtime session for Agile Initiative researchers 22 February 2023: 5 Agile researchers attended |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint UN engagements across Geneva Offices - 7 November 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Agile Sprint researchers Shared initial analysis on sexual violence against adolescent girls in Eastern and Southern Africa, and led a discussion on potential risk pathways and solutions with leading UN and philanthropic agencies in Geneva. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint co-presenting with the Queen of Sweden in a UN General Assembly (UNGA) event on children (2025) |
| 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 | The Agile Sprint presented emerging evidence and hypothesis to high-level practitioners and policymakers from UN, government and NGOs in a UN General Assembly side event "A Future at Risk: Reinvigorating Global Action for the Rights of the Child' that was co-hosted by the Swedish government, Save the Children Sweden, World Childhood Foundation, and UNICEF on 24th September 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint contribution to Africa Meteorology and Climate (MAC) Workshop - 17 November 2025 |
| 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 | The Agile Sprint researchers were invited to present the opening session of the Africa Meteorology and Climate (MAC) biannual meeting, co-hosted by a consortium of academic institutions with the UK government in which the Sprint team shared evidence emerging from their research on the relationship between sexual violence against children and extreme climate conditions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint contribution to ISPCAN 2025 Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Agile Sprint team led sessions in the conference focused on potential risk solutions that can prevent violence against children in climate emergencies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://ispcan.org/congresses/vilnius-2025-recap/ |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint contribution to Nuffield Humanitarian Forum - 6 November 2025 |
| 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 Sprint team were invited to contribute to this formal working group to contribute to the planning of a wider Nuffield Humanitarian Forum in March 2026 co-hosted with FCDO focused on 'doing development differently' in humanitarian settings to adapt to current threats to the aid architecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint contribution to UNICEF Academia for social behaviour change (SBC) network 28 November 2025 |
| 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 | The Agile Sprint team researchers were invited to contribute and shape the direction of the Academia for Social Change network as part of their work to strengthen the use of science to inform programmes, policy design, implementation, and the quality of services to support children's rights in Africa, especially violence against girls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint contribution to UNICEF Regional Think Tank Event - 11 November 2025 |
| 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 | The Agile Sprint team co-hosted an evidence-to-policy workshop with UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) 'Reimagining Demand Generation: Multi-Platform Strategies for Youth-Responsive SRHR, HIV, and Well-Being in Eastern and Southern Africa' in which researchers shared emerging evidence on harmful social norms, protection in humanitarian settings, and emerging climate threats in the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint engagement with Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau- 29 January 2026 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | To support Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau's advocacy efforts to end gender based violence, Prof Lucie Cluver and Dr Will Rudgard from the Agile Sprint team shared emerging evidence on child protection in climate emergencies and discussed potential solutions to protect adolescent girls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint engagement with World Vision International Policy team 29 January 2026 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team met with the policy team to share the findings of their research to date to demonstrate how climate crises impacted the World Vision International's mission to improve children's futures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint engagement with the Centre for Social Science Research University of Cape Town - 27 January 2026 |
| 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 | The Agile Sprint team hosted a dialogue about integrating violence prevention, safeguarding, and trauma-sensitivity into all aspects of research, emphasising the risk of violence against adolescents, and shared and invited inputs into the team's new safeguarding strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint input at 3rd International Conference on Child Protection in Africa 2025, Kenya - 5 November 2025 |
| 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 | Led by the Government of Kenya's Ministry of Social Affairs, this enent brought together practitioners and policymakers across sub-Saharan Africa to share the latest evidence, policies, and commitments on "child protection and climate change". Early career researchers, Luciana Leite and William Rudgard were invited to present their research on sexual violence and access to clean water in extreme climate conditions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://icpconference.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/3rd-ICCP-2025-Tentative-Programme.pdf |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint meeting with Ministry of Health in Uganda - 17 December 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Agile Sprint team held a series of engagement with actors at the Ugandan Ministry of Health including the head of child protection (Sauti) programme to co-create and shape new Sprint analysis on child protection in climate emergencies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint meeting with the Fondation Botnar 22 December 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mona Ibrahim from the Agile Sprint team shared the latest evidence on child protection in climate emergencies with decision makers at the Botnar Fondation, who were keen to strengthen evidence-based advocacy across their funded programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint participation in ALL IN: High-Level Panel to Accelerate Action to End Gender-Based Violence - 2nd December 2025 |
| 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 | The Agile Sprint team was invited to attend a high-level advocacy event focused on accelerating political commitment, secure sustained funding, and scale up evidence-based prevention. The event's theme was prevention: shifting the global approach from reactive support to proactive, systemic investment, social-norm change, and cross-sector collaboration to end violence against women and girls once and for all. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.allintoendgbv.com/news/global-leaders-launch-all-in-high-level-panel-to-accelerate-actio... |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint presented at the Climate Justice for Impacted Populations Symposium by UNFPA, COP30 Presidency, and Brazil Government 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This participation resulted in establishing strong connections with UNFPA ESARO, climate and gender unit to collaborate on a policy brief summarising the Agile Sprint research targeting policy makers, government stakeholders, and local NGO practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Climate shocks and childhood violence Sprint webpage on Agile's website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint's webpage was set up to generate further interest and engagement with the Sprint project, and offer a gateway to its news and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-can-we-prevent-childhood-sexual-abuse-in-climate-d... |
| Description | Co-creation and stakeholder engagement for impact in an Agile Sprint (part of the Research planning workshop series) May 2024 |
| 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 | Webinar workshop to help Sprint applicants to develop a full proposal and for those generally interested in Agile to understand the considerations for impact oriented co-creation and engagement during an Agile Sprint that attracted interest and active participation during the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/co-creation-and-stakeholder-engagement-for-impact... |
| Description | Common solutions to diverse fire crisis (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer gave a talk at the Spain Pavillion in the Blue Zone of COP30. She presented the results of the policy brief she developed under this Sprint (i.e. 'Record burning of Amazonian forests in 2023 and 2024'). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Contribution at UK-Brazil Conversa 30 June 2023 |
| 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 | The Research Lead for the Agile Sprint 'How can Brazil reach net zero emissions?' contributed to Panel 3, 'Collaborative approaches to tackling climate change and achieving net zero' and discussed the critical importance of the Amazon rainforest to the global climate, and how the UK is contributing to address the challenges faced in its conservation through its commitments to action and sustainable growth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.canninghouse.org/news/big-questions-facing-the-uk-and-brazil-conversa-2023 |
| Description | Contribution of nature-based solutions to Brazil's net-zero pledge - CCI Conservation Seminar Cambridge 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The event helped to disseminate the findings of the Agile Sprint on 'How can Brazil reach net zero emissions' with academia outside of Oxford University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.conservation.cam.ac.uk/events/cci-conservation-seminar-dr-aline-soterroni-14th-june-2023 |
| Description | Contribution to pre-COP30 Agile event (2025) |
| 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 event, titled "Forests and the Future: Brazil's Path to Climate Solutions," was hosted in partnership with the Embassy of Brazil to the UK and featured leading experts from academia, government and civil society engaging in science-to-policy dialogue just before COP30, that demonstrated forest protection delivers multiple benefits for addressing the interconnected crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/pre-cop-dialogue-oxford-cements-eci-and-brazil-partnership-forest-cons... |
| Description | Crossing Boundaries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Half-day communication for interdisciplinary research training workshop 26 September 2022 am): 8 Agile researchers attended |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Crossing Boundaries: the building blocks of good communication - half day training workshop 29th February 2024 |
| 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 | This half-day interactive training workshop on effectively communicating your research to other disciplines and outside academia, identifying your stakeholders and effective communication with policy and decision makers was organised by the Agile Initiative for Agile Sprint researchers and other University of Oxford interdisciplinary researchers to enhance communication and policy engagement skills. Feedback demonstrated the workshop was very positively received and that the researchers present intended to act on the learning and skills acquired. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Crossing boundaries: the building blocks of good communication - half-day training session 26 September 2023 |
| 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 | Interactive in-person training session to help interdisciplinary researchers communicate about their research to other disciplines, outside academia, and engage successfully with stakeholders and policymakers. Participants reported changes in their opinions to how they plan to communicate their research and engage with decision makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://socsci.web.ox.ac.uk/event/crossing-boundaries-the-building-blocks-of-good-communication |
| Description | Delivered a talk on scenario modelling for policy evaluation at TEDx Amazonia 2024 (29th Nov-1st Dec 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aline Soterroni delivered a talk at TEDxAmazônia 2024 highlighting her research from the net zero pathways for Brazil Sprint on scenario modelling for policy evaluation as a key tool for the conservation of the Amazon rainforest and Brazil's ecosystems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://tedxamazonia.com/palestrante-2024/aline-soterroni/ |
| Description | Dia do fogo: O futuro da Amazônia e outros biomas tropicais diante da escalada do fogo. The fire day: The future of the Amazon and other tropical biomes under the escalating threat of wildfires (event at the Agrizone of COP30) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer gave a talk at the Agrizone in Belém during COP30. She presented the results of the policy brief she developed under this Sprint (i.e. 'Record burning of Amazonian forests in 2023 and 2024') |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Discussion sessions with CAFRE and DAERA (x3) 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | These three sessions enabled dissemination of research results and discussion of implications and further explanation through conversation with agricultural advisory workers (CAFRE), Northern Ireland civil servants (DAERA) and food industry representatives. This led to email correspondence and sharing of other outputs related to the research after the events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/greenhouse-gas-uncertainties-expanding-the-impact-of-rese... |
| Description | Diálogos do Piroceno - The Pyrocene Dialogues (event during COP30 at the Museu das Amazônias) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer gave a talk at the Museu das Amazônias (i.e. Museum of the Amazons) in Belém during COP30. She presented the results of the policy brief she developed under this Sprint (i.e. 'Record burning of Amazonian forests in 2023 and 2024') |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Dousing the flames: Two scientists share Amazon fire knowledge (COP30 related interview with Erika Berenguer) |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer from the Agile 'Fireproofing the Amazon' Sprint was interviewed by Sumaúma for an article "Dousing the flames: Two scientists share Amazon fire knowledge" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://sumauma.com/en/entre-as-cicatrizes-do-fogo-as-licoes-de-duas-cientistas-para-prevenir-incend... |
| Description | ESM Spin-up Sprint contribution to a seminar in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics division, Department of Physics, Oxford University 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team gave a talk to other academics outside of the Sprint research project to explain how the algorithm for ESM spin-up works which influenced the atmospheric scientists and oceanographers from AOPP who attended who stated they are rethinking possible directions for future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ESM Spin-up Sprint participation in a virtual seminar with Ai4NetZero project members 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint researchers presented the Anderson acceleration for ESM spin-up to AI4NetZero project members from the UK and EU. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/environmental-futures/projects/ai4netzero |
| Description | ESM Spin-up Sprint researcher participation in a seminar at the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japanese Meteorological Agency in Tsukuba, Japan, September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Samar Khatiwala contributed to a seminar to share the Sprint's research findings with members of the MRI Earth System Modelling group who develop the MRI ESM and perform CMIP simulations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ESM Spin-up Sprint researchers participated in a virtual seminar with EU Horizon project European Eddy-Rich Earth System Models (EERIE), July 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ESM Spin-up Sprint researchers presented findings on efficient ESM spin-up to EERIE project members from the UK and EU. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://eerie-project.eu/event/efficient-spin-up-of-earth-system-models-using-sequence-acceleration/ |
| Description | ESM Spin-up Sprint seminar participation at the Atmosphere Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, October 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Samar Khatiwala presented the Sprint's research findings to climate scientists, oceanographers and marine biogeochemists at AORI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ESM Spin-up Sprint seminar participation at the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), November 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Samar Khatiwala presented the Sprint's research findings to members of the MIROC Earth System Model development team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ESM Spin-up Sprint stakeholder workshops with the Met Office, 2023, 2024 |
| 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 | The UK Met Office were a key stakeholder for the ESM Spin-up Sprint so regular meetings were attended to foster knowledge exchange and ongoing co-creation. Multiple virtual (>15) and in-person (4-5) meetings with UKMO teams based at NOC Southampton and Exeter; one visit by the Sprint researchers to NOC-based team; two visits to Oxford by Dr Eleanor Burke (based in Exeter); one visit by the Sprint researchers to Exeter; and multiple virtual meetings with collaborators at NCAR, Bjerknes Centre and GEOMAR. All of these meetings helped to shape the research and ensure its end-user and policy relevance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | ESM Spin-up sprint's participation in a virtual seminar at Bjerknes Centre/NORCE Climate (Norway), March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint researchers presented ESM spin-up sequence acceleration to climate scientists including NorESM developers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://bjerknes.uib.no/en/modelling |
| Description | ESM spin-up Sprint Agile website webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An Agile Initiative web page explaining the Sprint with details of the team, outputs and related news items to foster further engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/the-spin-up-problem-in-earth-system-modelling/ |
| Description | ESM spin-up Sprint article in The Conversation, May 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An article in The Conversation to explain the results and implications of the findings in the Sprint's paper published in Science Advances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/supercomputers-can-take-months-to-simulate-the-climate-but-my-new-algori... |
| Description | ESM spin-up Sprint presentation to UK Met Office, Exeter August 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ESM spin-up sequence acceleration presented during Met Office weekly science seminar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ESM spin-up Sprint press release May 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release issued by Oxford University summarising findings in the Sprint's paper published in Science Advances and testimonials on the importance of the research from Professor Helene Hewitt OBE, Co-chair for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Panel, and Professor Colin Jones Head of the NERC/Met Office sponsored UK Earth system modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-05-02-new-computer-algorithm-supercharges-climate-models-and-could-le... |
| Description | ESM spin-up Sprint's presentation at European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna May 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ESM Spin-up Sprint researchers gave an oral presentation on the results of their paper published in Science Advances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/49394 |
| Description | ESM spin-up Sprint's presentation at the New Orleans Ocean Sciences Conference February 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ESM Spin-up Sprint researcher Andrew Wilson gave an oral presentation on the results of the Sprint's paper published in Science Advances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://agu.confex.com/agu/OSM24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1481941 |
| Description | Ecosystems Knowledge Network webinar to present NbS Sprint maps 20th March 2024 |
| 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 | Agile NbS Sprint researchers ran a webinar hosted by Ecosystems Knowledge Network to present the opportunity and natural capital maps to a practitioner-based audience. These maps are now being used to inform local nature recovery strategies in a range of different locations, including Surrey, Somerset, Shropshire, Oxfordshire and Yorkshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ecosystemsknowledge.net/resources/webinar-library/putting-nature-on-the-map/ |
| Description | Enabling Opportunities for Forest Protection and Climate Action at COP30 (2025) |
| 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 | In the run-up to COP30, Erika Berenguer's Sprint, in collaboration with other Agile researchers, organised Antonio Patriota (Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom) and others to speak on the importance of rainforest fire prevention and protection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/pre-cop-dialogue-oxford-cements-eci-and-brazil-partnership-forest-cons... |
| Description | Engaging with Policy Makers workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Half-day training workshop on how to identify, engage and communicate with a range decision and policy makers for engaged research 26 September 2022 pm): 8 Agile researchers attended |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Entre chuvas e tornados, estamos na COP30 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer from the Agile 'Fireproofing the Amazon' Sprint was interviewed for the the podcast called 'Bom Dia, Fim do Mundo' about the policy brief that was developed under her Sprint project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nXM3VdNbssYhVgMGOXPgp?si=AwA2rjRyTI6B1VgbEwV-yw&nd=1&dlsi=45e4e3f9... |
| Description | Environmental science and policy with the Oxford Agile Initiative: insights and next steps - webinar with Defra October 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Webinar with Defra including a panel from Oxford University and Defra to talk about the Agile Initiative in the context of getting science into policy which further enhanced connections between Defra and the Agile Initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/agile-and-defra-speak-on-environmental-science-and-policy... |
| Description | Equity and inclusivity in research funding working group meetings Oxford University 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To discuss and action equity and inclusivity in research at Oxford University and share learning from putting the Agile Initiative's Diversity and Inclusion Plan into action; Agile EDI Officer attended working groups in August, September, November and December 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Estudo quer fim do desmatamento legal para zerar gases estufa no paÃs - media interview to 'Agência Brasil' 2023 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Media interview to highlight findings from journal publication of research funded by Agile on the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/internacional/noticia/2023-12/estudo-quer-fim-do-desmatamento-legal... |
| Description | European Congress of Conservation Biology 2024 presentation on Biodiversity Net Gain Sprint's social research, "A local welfare perspective on biodiversity offsetting policy: A mixed methods case-study from Southeast England" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Agile Initiative Biodiversity Net Gain Sprint delivered a 10-minute talk, "A local welfare perspective on biodiversity offsetting policy: A mixed methods case-study from Southeast England" during a themed session on policy and governance. See abstract ID 956 in the hyperlinked book of abstracts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://eccb2024.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BOOK-OF-ABSTRACTS-ECCB-2024-3.pdf |
| Description | Event with Sprint partners at Thames Barrier (2025) |
| 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 | Agile Sprint event at the Thames Barrier to bring together the researchers and their partners from the Met Office and Environment Agency to look at the research focus in situ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas-adcock_when-i-was-nine-i-was-taken-up-to-london-activity-74040... |
| Description | Fast Track Impact Policy Engagement module training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Pete Barbrook Johnson contributed learning from the Agile Initiative to the Fast Track Impact website to share knowledge more widely. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/effective-research-policy-collaboration |
| Description | Final biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint stakeholders meeting (hybrid, 5th June 2023) |
| 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 | Hybrid meeting organised by the biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint team to discuss the Sprint research results with external partners and key stakeholders from HMT, Defra, NE, POST, National Trust, Just Climate, Forestry Commission, BBOWT, and Mott MacDonald to feed into stakeholder institutional plans and get feedback on most useful format and means of sharing Sprint research to inform BNG, metric refinements and operationalising the HMT's Green Book. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Fodder: The weekly newsletter of TABLE - edition on the Regenerative Agriculture Sprint (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This newsletter focused on the insights gathered from the Sprint and the three scenarios relating to the future of regenerative farming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=85afd3b5aa2e515e25c3e7b9d&id=00ebdbe45c |
| Description | Fogo na Floresta - roda de conversa. Fires in the forest - a conversation (event at the COP Central Hub of COP30) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer gave a talk at the COP Central Hub in Belém during COP30. She presented the results of the policy brief she developed under this Sprint (i.e. 'Record burning of Amazonian forests in 2023 and 2024') |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Food Foundation 'Pod Bites' podcast on the Regenerative Agriculture Sprint 2025 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Podcast created by the Food Foundation on behalf of the Sprint to build awareness and profile of the project and to generate engagement with issues around regenerative agriculture; able to connect directly to the partner's (Food Foundation) audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://foodfoundation.org.uk/podcast/pod-bites-regenerative-agriculture |
| Description | Fourth Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint stakeholder engagement meeting 27th June 2023 |
| 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 | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint stakeholder engagement meeting that focused on the integration of different components of NbS (carbon, biodiversity, social) across scales, both within the Agile Sprint project, and within partner organisations, and to refine plans for project outputs - how to maximise their usefulness for partners in addressing multiple objectives related to NbS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | From Trade-offs to Synergies: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity Policies (COP30 session) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer organised and contributed to a side event debate to unite climate and biodiversity agendas at COP30 as Head of the Oxford delegation to Belem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://enb.iisd.org/climate-biodiversity-alignment-COP30 |
| Description | Future of Ecological Research in the UK - expert panel member |
| 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 | Through this project the British Ecological Society has examined what is needed to take our science forward in the UK. The report sets out a unified community vision of the grand challenges for ecology and how they can best be met. When published, the report will provide funders with a clear understanding of future research needs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/policy/future-of-ecological-research-in-the-uk/expert-panel... |
| Description | GBF Sprint 'show and tell' webinar with Defra (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Global Biodiversity Framework Sprint presented its key findings relating to nature markets and biodiversity net gain at local, national and international levels to a wide group of Defra attendees which prompted one of Defra's International Finance Team to note that as a policy response, the Sprints findings should be shared with as many of Defra's international networks as possible. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | GBF Sprint Nature Restoration Fund workshop with Defra and Natural England (Jan 2026) |
| 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 | The Global Biodiversity Framework Sprint supplied research findings and expertise relevant to implementing the Nature Restoration Fund and biodiversity implications to members of Defra and Natural England working on the NRF. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| Description | GBF Sprint contribution to Natural England away day (October 2025) |
| 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 | Global Biodiversity Framework Sprint members contributed learning from the Sprint research during an away day for Natural England staff that fed into the Natural England Nature Restoration Fund that fed into logistics and planning for the Fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | GBF Sprint keynote at Defra Nature Restoration Fund away day (Nov 2025) |
| 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 | On invitation, the Sprint lead of the Global Biodiversity Framework gave a keynote talk at Defra's November 2025 Nature Restoration Fund team away day, so that learning from the Sprint could be woven into NRF considerations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | GBF Sprint stakeholder workshop (June 2025) |
| 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 | The Global Biodiversity Framework Sprint team used this workshop with their stakeholders to present their research findings to date so that the stakeholders could advise on and inform planned outputs in response to the findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | GBF Sprint stakeholder workshop (September 2025) |
| 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 Global Biodiversity Framework Sprint event brought together local Oxfordshire stakeholders to share findings of the Oxfordshire work package and the pre-print generated from this work will be cited on the Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint 'show and tell' webinar with DEFRA, 19th September 2024 |
| 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 | An interactive webinar workshop co-organised by DEFRA and the Agile Initiative to share the findings on the Sprint's research on GHG habitat emissions (CO2 and methane) to inform The Wildlife Trusts strategy and inform DAERA's Climate Action Plan for Northern Ireland with DEFRA to demonstrate transferable learning from the case study that DEFRA attendees confirmed was relevant for DEFRA's own policies and fostered further connections between DEFRA and DAERA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/working-with-policy-presenting-research-to-defra/ |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint meeting with DAERA to discuss their Climate Action Plan, 3rd May 2024 |
| 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 | Workshop to feed the Sprint learning into DAERA's forthcoming Climate Action Plan to explain the nuance around methane versus CO2 evaluation that will affect long-term expectations for different sectors. DAERA have subsequently confirmed the Sprint research has informed the forthcoming NI CAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint online workshop with DAERA Land-based GHG Science Workstream group 6th September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sprint research on evaluating Northern Ireland agricultural emissions under different approaches was shared with the wider DAERA land-based GHG group, to explain what was done and how it feeds into the forthcoming Climate Action Plan, with discussion of implications and organisational communication of the topics in future which resulted in the decision to reflect conclusions and framing in future responses to queries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint participation in Irish Climate Change Advisory Council / DAERA Bilaterial Exchange online meeting 16th September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sprint research on evaluating Northern Ireland agricultural emissions under different approaches was shared as part of a bilateral exchange with Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council, resulting in discussion of the research and mutual interest in how this type of project can feed into policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint participation in the British Ecological Society Annual Conference 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of a submitted abstract on how Peatland restoration can provide a climate benefit on all time scales (a case study with The Wildlife Trusts). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-annual-meeting-2024/agenda/ |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint presentation at the Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland, June 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr John Lynch from the GHG emissions Sprint gave a presentation of Sprint findings around exploring broader perspectives on carbon dioxide and methane 'equivalence' in the context of climate policy using Northern Ireland as a case-study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint presented at the Agricultural Economics Society conference in March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The GHG emissions Sprint researchers gave a presentation of Sprint findings exploring how methane emission reductions in Northern Ireland would be valued under different reporting approaches to outline how some of the scientific and policy arguments for putting more or less emphasis on methane emission reductions, and how these might feed into mitigation action in Northern Ireland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/presenting-at-the-agricultural-economics-society-annual-c... |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint webpage on Agile Initiative website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A dedicated webpage to describe the purpose of the Sprint, with relevant linked news items and outputs to foster further engagement with the research and its related activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/uncertainties-in-habitat-greenhouse-gas-fluxes/ |
| Description | GHG emissions Sprint work on peatland restoration presented at the Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting November 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr John Lynch presented findings on peatland restoration based on the research undertaken during the Sprint. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/land-use-biodiversity-climate/ |
| Description | GHG habitat emissions Sprint research presented at the IUCN UK Peatland Programme conference September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team presented research and answered questions on the Sprint research's findings into peatland restoration which generated enthusiasm amongst conference attendees looking for actionable information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/events/conference-2024 |
| Description | GHG habitat emissions Sprint research presented to the Nature-based Solutions Initiative Journal Club September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sprint researcher Xiao Zhang gave an informal talk to share the Sprint's research and learning with academic colleagues working in nature-based solutions to demonstrate how research can influence policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | GO Falkland talk on multifunctional land use July 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Agile NbS Sprint Co-I Alison Smith participated in a session on Solving the Land-use Jigsaw organised by SEDA Land, at the GO Falkland regenerative farming conference in Scotland. She gave a short presentation and took part in expert panel discussion featuring Agile's work on opportunity mapping and land-use trade-offs, to raise awareness of the work and stimulate debate around scaling up nature-based solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://seda.scot/solving-the-land-use-jigsaw |
| Description | Global Biodiversity Framework Sprint bi-monthly co-creation meetings with Oxfordshire Local Nature Recovery Partnership representatives 2024, 2025 |
| 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 | Meetings held 9th October, 12th and 20th November, 4th and 12th December 2024 and 10th January 2025 with Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership representatives to co-create research questions relating to the design of financial mechanisms for attracting more private finance into nature recovery in Oxfordshire, and to coordinate biodiversity net gain investments with the local nature recovery strategy. These meetings have been integral in shaping the research based on stakeholder insights and requirements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| Description | Global Biodiversity Framework Sprint meeting with Bank of England December 2024 |
| 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 | Discussion on Global Finance and Economy Group's update on recent work and engagement (in particular following since Assessing the Materiality of Nature-Related Financial Risks for the UK report) and expected future work on nature, informing Bank of England's work on nature and climate and next steps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Global Biodiversity Framework finance Agile Sprint webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A webpage on the Agile website dedicated to the 'How can the UK implement the Global Biodiversity Framework's finance goals?' Sprint, describing the research approach and designed to foster further engagement with the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-can-the-uk-implement-the-finance-goals-of-the-glob... |
| Description | Green ammonia could decarbonize 60% of global shipping by 2050, study reveals (Offshore Energy, 09 January 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News report about the Green ammonia Agile Sprint's published research findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.offshore-energy.biz/green-ammonia-could-decarbonize-60-of-global-shipping-by-2050-study-... |
| Description | Green ammonia could decarbonize 60% of global shipping when offered at just 10 regional fuel ports (Mirage News, 09 January 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News item reporting the finding Green ammonia Sprint to a wider audience, providing information on the implications of the Sprint's research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.miragenews.com/green-ammonia-could-decarbonize-60-of-global-1153053/ |
| Description | Green ammonia could decarbonize 60% of global shipping when offered at just 10 regional fuel ports (Tech Xplore, 09 January 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | News report for the Agile Sprint study published in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-green-ammonia-decarbonize-global-shipping.html |
| Description | Green ammonia for shipping Sprint workshop organised by the Singapore-Rotterdam green shipping corridor coalition 18-19 September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Singapore-Rotterdam green shipping corridor workshop shared progress and insights from green corridor partners (ports, shipping companies, fuel suppliers, finance) with the green ammonia for maritime shipping Sprint team to help align objectives for the next year. This was at the invitation of the Senior Sustainability Manager; Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore; "We have been following Oxford's work with great interest on ammonia and various net-zero fuel pathways and would be glad to explore opportunities to collaborate with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/green-ammonia-sprint-new-publication-and-meeting-with-gre... |
| Description | Green ammonia for shipping Sprint workshop with Associated British Ports July 2024 |
| 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 | The green ammonia for maritime shipping Sprint team held a workshop with representatives from Associated British Ports to plan a future collaboration and generate further research questions relating to green ammonia production hubs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Has it come to this? An interactive workshop on power, justice, and CO2 removal (2025) |
| 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 | Researcher Aissa Dearing, through funding from the Agile Enabling Grant, ran an interactive workshop on on carbon dioxide removal, exploring the social, political, and justice dimensions of this rapidly evolving climate response and reflected on power, trust, and environmental equity while building shared understanding of carbon dioxide removal's real-world stakes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/has-it-come-to-this/ |
| Description | How can the UK improve flood resilience in the Thames Estuary LinkedIn page (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | LinkedIn page to share information on the purpose and progress of this Sprint researching flood resilience in the Thames Estuary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/agile-initiative_how-can-the-uk-improve-flood-resilience-activity-740... |
| Description | How can the UK improve flood resilience in the Thames Estuary Sprint page on the Agile website (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This is a webpage explaining the need for, purpose and research focus of the flood resilience Sprint to generate interest and share learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/flood-resilience/ |
| Description | How can we bring nature into public decision-making? July 2025 |
| 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 event, organised by the Agile Initiative biodiversity net gain Sprint, brought together those who are instrumental in the policy making process, to explain the issues in the current system relating to biodiversity and nature. It brought decision-makers into conversation with researchers and experts and enabled discussion and consideration of practical approaches to getting nature included in policy decisions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/how-can-we-bring-nature-into-public-decision-making/ |
| Description | How can we bring nature into public decision-making? YouTube video of July 2025 event |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A recording of the event led by the biodiversity Agile Initiative Sprint lead convening researchers and policy decision-makers on biodiversity and incorporating nature into policy to reach a wider audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wjSKYKulo |
| Description | How can we fireproof the Amazon? Sprint webpage on Agile Initiative website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This webpage was created to share more information on the purpose, activities and intended impacts of the Sprint's research to generate interest and share learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-can-we-fireproof-the-amazon/ |
| Description | How to achieve Net Zero for Brazil Agile Sprint international Engagement 2022 |
| 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 | Engagement with COPPE/UFRJ, MapBiomas and SEEG as co-presenters/panellists during 26th September 2022 webinar. Post-webinar direct engagement with Izabella Teixeira, providing her scenarios for updating Brazil's NDC ambition and aligning short-term targets with the country's net zero pledge. She is also advisor to the COP27 presidency. Scenarios were shared and discussed in the 26th September webinar that outlined the current weak environmental governance in Brazil to show the risk of climate inaction, the mismatch of Brazil's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) short- and long-term targets, and the mitigation potential relating to nature-based solutions and key sector activities that bridge the gap to Net Zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4DbF-Y6UWo. |
| Description | How to achieve Net Zero for Brazil Agile Sprint stakeholder Engagement 2022 |
| 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 | Meetings with Defra (13th June hybrid meeting, 75 Defra attendees; 12th September online meeting, 11 Defra attendees; plus ad-hoc meetings with FCDO/Defra staff in Brazil) to share the research and get a steer on what they would want as end-users (a policy brief) and advice on how this output could be targeted to COP27 negotiations effectively (Defra facilitated introductions to colleagues in BEIS and Cabinet Office for this purpose). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | How to turn waste into fertiliser Agile Sprint stakeholder engagement workshop (in-person) 5th July 2022 |
| 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 | Stakeholder engagement workshop to discuss the policy drivers for the Sprint research, the data and evidence base that can be collected and how uptake can be achieved. This workshop helped to direct the Sprint research, define its parameters, and identify stakeholder needs for findings and outputs from the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | How to write an equality impact assessment for Agile Sprints (part of the Research planning workshop series) May 2024 |
| 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 | Webinar workshop to help Sprint applicants to develop a full proposal and for those generally interested in Agile to understand the factors and process involved in writing an equality impact assessment for an Agile Sprint that attracted interest and active participation during the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/how-to-write-an-equality-impact-assessment-for-ag... |
| Description | Hunger on our doorstep podcast part 1 (2025) |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Regenerative Agriculture Sprint team put together a podcast on food poverty in the UK with support and input from the Food Foundation to explores the issues and potential solutions through the eyes of three food campaigners with first-hand experience of food poverty in urban communities, as well as others working to tackle the problem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast/episode87 |
| Description | Hunger on our doorstep podcast part 2 (2025) |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Regenerative Agriculture Sprint team put together a podcast on food poverty in the UK with support and input from the Food Foundation with inspiring stories of the solutions being put into practice across the country. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast/episode90 |
| Description | Keynote speech at the Scientific Symposium at the University of West Pará (4th December 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aline Soterroni delivered a keynote speech at the opening session of the 2024 Scientific Symposium at the University of West Pará, presenting her findings on Brazil's net-zero pathways from her Sprint research and linking the discussion to COP30, which will take place in Pará. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Launch of Climate and Nature Crisis caucus in parliament (October 2025) |
| 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 | Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland of the biodiversity Agile Initiative Sprint spoke at the launch of this caucus, using Agile-funded research to inform the group, supported by this output made available for the audience: https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Agile-2025-Economic-Development-and-Nature-Recovery-Win-Wins-FAQ.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.zerohour.uk/cncc/ |
| Description | Leicestershire County Council in person stakeholder workshop 15 May 2023 |
| 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 | Agile Sprint -'Can we turn waste into fertiliser?' held a workshop on 15 May 2023. The theme of the workshop was 'Re-designing nutrient flows in Leicestershire' and was a step closer to developing a tangible action plan for the decision-makers in Leicestershire, it could also be applied to other parts of the country depending on the local contexts. 18 participants attended from the Environment Agency, DEFRA, local authorities, research institutes and the waste management industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/can-inter-disciplinary-stakeholder-involvement-help-trans... |
| Description | Local stakeholder meeting to share Sprint results and the 'Assessing Biodiversity Net Gain plans: a quick guide for planners and developers' output with stakeholders in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire 2023 |
| 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 | Meeting shared biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint results and its BNG checker tool to stimulate further research into BNG and the metric, communicate to Local Planning Authorities how to spot 'bad' BNG, communicate to developers how to achieve 'best practice' BNG, which fed input back to Defra and Natural England. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Lunch and Learn: Equality Impact Assessment and Inclusive Research Design (September 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Steph Perrin from the Agile Initiative presented on the importance and process of using an Equality Impact Assessment for research (such as that designed by Agile) at a lunch and learn training session for Biomedical Research Council researchers in the Medical Sciences Division of Oxford University to promote best practice in research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/lunch-and-learn-equality-impact-assessment-and-inclusive-rese... |
| Description | Magdalena Skipper Nature Journals round table and seminar 31 Jan 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The round table focused on speeding up publishing timing and greater interdisciplinarity in Nature Journals to meet urgent environmental evidence needs, and the talk discussed the role of Nature Journals in the 21st century more widely. Attendees reported that they were pleased to be able to engage in conversation on the strategic direction of the Nature Journals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/nature-in-the-21st-century/ |
| Description | Meeting Minds 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | John Lynch and Ilina Singh from the Agile Initiative gave a presentation on the Agile Initiative to an audience of University of Oxford alumni to demonstrate the value of such programmes to potential supporters and people of influence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/oh-event/meeting-minds-september-2025/ |
| Description | Meeting with Councillor Dr Pete Sudbury, Oxfordshire County Council, 29th August 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting held with Councillor Dr Pete Sudbury, Cabinet Minister for Climate Change Delivery and Environment, Oxfordshire County Council 29th August 2023 to share Biodiversity Net Gain Agile Sprint findings and identify ways of engaging with the County Council in future which informed plans for a People's Assembly for Nature in Oxfordshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with the National Audit Office 1st September 2023 |
| 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 | Meeting held with National Audit Office (NAO) and the biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint team on 1st September 2023 - at the request of Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee, NAO are developing a study of the Government's introduction of BNG, and having seen the Sprint's 'Assessing Biodiversity Net Gain Plans' they requested a meeting to learn more about the research and get advice on BNG which has informed the NAO's work in progress on BNG. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.nao.org.uk/work-in-progress/biodiversity-net-gain/ |
| Description | Mission analysis - how does the UK government model the transition to Clean Power 2030 and Accelerate to Net Zero by 2050, perspectives from the Chief Economist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Carbon Budget Sprint team organised this seminar via INET to bring clarity on the DESNZ 'mission' under the current UK government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/mission-analysis |
| Description | Mudanças do uso da terra são caminho econômico para net zero no Brasil - press release 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Research Lead for Agile's 'How can Brazil reach net zero emissions?' Sprint gave a press release in Portuguese to highlight findings from journal publication based on research funded by Agile on the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ipam.org.br/mudancas-do-uso-da-terra-sao-caminho-mais-economico-para-net-zero-no-brasil/ |
| Description | NERC Changing the Environment cross-programme workshop where Agile presented on its experience of interdisciplinarity - 16 May 2023 |
| 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 | Online workshop to share learning across the Changing the Environment programmes in which Agile presented its learning on interdisciplinarity to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NERC CtE Systems Thinking Masterclass for practitioners December 2024 |
| 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 masterclass workshop was for practitioners related to all four NERC Changing the Environment awards to enhance networking capacity and explored systems thinking core concepts and methods, maximising impact, planning for success and systems thinking in practice challenges to contribute to a critical mass of capability around systems thinking in their practice that led to further plans being made |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NERC CtE Systems Thinking Masterclass for researchers December 2024 |
| 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 masterclass workshop was for researchers from all four NERC Changing the Environment awards to enhance networking capacity and explored systems thinking core concepts and methods, effective practices, maximising your impact, and career development to help researchers incorporate systems thinking in their research that led to further plans being made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NSTA workshop 'Seismicity monitoring for UKCS Carbon Storage' (2025) |
| 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 offshore GCS Agile Sprint team were invited to give a presentation in this NSTA workshop off the back of the Sprint research to policymakers, regulators and business with interest in CO2 licenses in the UK continental shelf on the current state of seismicity monitoring in the UKCS and what may be achievable with new technologies such as the NYMAR array deployed during the Sprint. Most significant impact were plans for future related activities and follow-on discussions around a proposal for a new research project on integrating seismicity monitoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Nature Journals and Biodiversity: a meeting with Anna Armstrong (round table event, 30 Oct 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A round table event with Anna Armstrong from Nature journals and key academics involved in biodiversity to discuss a potential biodiversity special issue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Nature-based Programmes for mental health in schools Sprint webpage on the Agile Initiative website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This webpage explains the Sprint's focus, aims and objectives and provides access to the Sprint's outputs and news items to foster further engagement with the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/is-nature-a-policy-solution-to-mental-health-in-school... |
| Description | Nature-based Programmes for mental health in schools deliberative policy action workshop February 2025 |
| 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 | On February 18th, the Oxford University "Agile Sprint" research team organised a half-day "Deliberative Policy Action" workshop on the role of nature-based education programmes for mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools. This involved the Sprint team, trained facilitators, teachers, members of the Young Persons Advisory Group and members of the Department for Education. The purpose of the DPA was to collaboratively and democratically explore whether nature-based education programmes can improve mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools, ultimately informing policy development at the DfE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Nature-based Programmes in schools Sprint monthly meetings with the DfE 2024, 2025 |
| 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 | Monthly meetings between the Sprint team and the Department for Education, taking place on July 11th, September 12th, October 17th, November 14th, December 12th 2024; January 16th, February 6th 2025 to ensure DfE's input into ongoing co-creation for the Sprint project to keep it policy relevant and set up knowledge exchange between the Sprint and DfE relating to nature-based Programmes for mental health in schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team member invited to give a presentation on "Developing a UK Seagrass Carbon code" for UK Seagrass Symposium 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr John Lynch from the Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint gave a talk summarising the work done as part of the Sprint and other projects with partners on UK seagrass 'carbon code'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://oceanconservationtrust.org/ocean-habitats/uk-seagrass-symposium/ |
| Description | Nature-based Solutions Knowledge Hub |
| 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 | Website created to host Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint outputs, focused on providing knowledge and tools to help practitioners plan, design and manage more successful and sustainable nature-based solutions, and helping policymakers to put in place a supportive policy framework. Since going live early 2024, the various tools and guidance have been accessed by a range of UK practitioners at the national level. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://nbshub.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/ |
| Description | Nature-based programmes in schools Sprint talks in the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team gave presentations at two meetings at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford to the other BRC Theme Leads, October 1st; and a talk at the Psychiatry Head of Department meeting on October 8th to inform other academics about the Agile project and the benefits of interdisciplinary, policy oriented research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Nature-based programmes in schools Sprint working group meetings with the Young Persons Advisory Group 2024, 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Ongoing consultation to represent the perspectives and needs of young people (secondary school age up to 19 years old) as a key stakeholder for the research into nature based programmes as a policy solution to mental health in schools which has also resulted in training the YPAG members in engagement with policymakers and communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://neuroxypag.org/projects/the-agile-project/ |
| Description | NbP Agile Sprint's Oxford Education Deanery webinar on YouTube |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This recording of the webinar was broadcast on YouTube to share the research findings and discussion more broadly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipxdiq0uUB4 |
| Description | NbP Sprint 'Teach-in' webinar with the DfE (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This event presented and explained the Sprint's research results relating to NbPs for mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools within DfE's 'Opportunity' mission remit, followed by a knowledge exchange discussion and requests to share further learning and outputs with DfE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/reflections-on-our-recent-teach-in/ |
| Description | NbP Sprint Oxford Education Deanery webinar (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This webinar, 'Does access to nature support mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools? Examining the evidence for policy and practice', facilitated by the Oxford Education Deanery enabled the Sprint team to share their learning on nature as a policy solution to mental health and wellbeing in schools to a network of educators and education researchers, policy professionals, plus other registered attendees, to reflect on the learning that schools, teachers and researchers could take forward in their own practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipxdiq0uUB4 |
| Description | NbPs for mental health in schools contribution to Agile Showcase 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Nature-based Programmes Sprint team presented their work to policy professionals and academics and answered questions relating to the design, policy implications and likely outcomes of NbPs for secondary school children in relation to mental health and wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/reflections-on-our-showcase-event-putting-science-into-ac... |
| Description | NbPs for mental health in schools: Monthly meetings with the DfE (x6) |
| 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 | Monthly Catch ups with the DfE, taking place on March 13th, April 10th, May 19th, June 19th, July 27th, and August 28th to ensure DfE's input into the Sprint project's research and outputs to keep it policy relevant and set up knowledge exchange between the Sprint and DfE relating to nature-based Programmes for mental health in schools. These meetings established a trusted relationship that led to the 'teach-in' webinar with the DfE, and the DfE's request for specific case studies as a follow-on activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | NbS Agile Sprint member invited as panel member for Climate Change Committee's Citizens Jury on Climate Change Adaptation 2025 |
| 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 researcher provided advice on the design of the Citizens Jury with regard to climate change adaptation and nature. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | NbS Agile Sprint presentation in BirdLife International webinar (December 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Emily Warner from the Agile NbS Sprint gave a presentation on monitoring biodiversity in nature-based solutions projects in a BirdLife international webinar aimed at bringing together global NbS experts for technical insights on design, monitoring and finance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Coalition meeting, organised by the Port of London Authority, 19 September 2024 |
| 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 | The green ammonia for maritime shipping Sprint researchers gave a presentation to the Net Zero Coalition meeting hosted by the Port of London Authority to inform about decarbonisation of shipping fuels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Agile Sprint BERA blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team produced this blog to explain the importance of incorporating Net Zero in school curriculums to the international audience of the British Education Research Association. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/five-arguments-for-including-net-zero-in-the-curriculum |
| Description | Net Zero Education Sprint Agile website webpage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This is a webpage on the Agile Initiative website explaining the purpose, context, and planned research for this Sprint to generate interest in advance of outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/net-zero-education/ |
| Description | Net Zero Education Sprint expert working group workshops (x2) |
| 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 | These engagement workshops with subject experts in education, healthcare and environmental science have helped to steer the Sprint's research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Net Zero Education Sprint steering group workshops (x2) |
| 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 | These engagement workshops with policy professionals in the government Department For Education to ensure ongoing research and output co-creation during the Sprint project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | NetZeroEd Agile Sprint Department of Education poster conference 22nd Oct 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Students and staff from the University received information on the Agile NetZeroEd Sprint project which resulted in further connections for the Sprint and more teacher engagement for the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/students-and-staff-showcase-research-at-annual-poster-conference... |
| Description | NetZeroEd Sprint presentation for the Department of Education Qualitative Methods Hub (November 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team presented on the Net Zero Education Sprint's methodology for the Department's qualitative methods hub and explain the rationale and methodology to research staff and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/netzeroed/ |
| Description | Network Design for Passive Seismic Monitoring of Offshore CO2 Storage Projects (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint team presented research findings on effective passive seismic monitoring of CO2 storage projects for further feedback and future collaboration with European colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.earthdoc.org/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.2025101509 |
| Description | New research finds that nature-based solutions are essential for Brazil to meet its 2050 net zero pledge - press release 2023 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release to highlight findings from journal publication of research funded by Agile to highlight the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-11-01-new-research-finds-nature-based-solutions-are-essential-brazil-... |
| Description | O Brasil e sua jornada rumo ao net zero - expert opinion to 'Estadão' 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Lead Researcher from the Agile 'How can Brazil reach net zero emissions?' Sprint provided expert opinion to highlight findings from journal publication of research funded by Agile on the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.estadao.com.br/opiniao/espaco-aberto/o-brasil-e-sua-jornada-rumo-ao-net-zero/ |
| Description | Ock and Thame farmer cluster landscape recovery project steering group membership 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Agile NbS Sprint Co-I Alison Smith participated as an invited member of the Ock and Thames Farmer Cluster steering group, providing advice on nature recovery opportunities in Oxfordshire. This participation contributed to the uptake of the Agile opportunity maps in the Oxfordshire Local Nature Recovery strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/projects/ock-and-thame-farmers/ |
| Description | Online Sprint 5 meeting with Crown Estate October 2023 |
| 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 | To secure ongoing engagement with the landowner of the Agile shelf seas carbon capture and storage research site which has led to the Crown Estate being an engaged stakeholder with the Sprint's research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Online meeting with North Sea Transition Authority August 2023 |
| 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 | For the shelf seas carbon capture and storage Agile Sprint to engage with the NSTA from a regulatory perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Oral presentation by safe shelf-seas CCS Sprint at the American Geophysical Union (AGU)24 conference December 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this talk, Dr Joseph Asplet from the shelf seas CCS Sprint presented findings from the Sprint to promote work on using onshore arrays to monitor seismicity for offshore CO2 storage projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/agile-at-the-american-geophysical-union-fall-meeting-2024... |
| Description | Organisation and participation in an official COP30 UNFCCC side event on behalf of Oxford University (11 November 2025) |
| 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 | Drs Aline Soterroni, Erika Berenguer and Prof Nathalie Seddon from Agile organised and participated in this side event to help lobby for halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation and shared scientific knowledge on climate-nature linkages demonstrating that reversing forestry trends is integral to global net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/rainforests-nature-and-biodiversity-at-cop30/ |
| Description | Oxford Nature Conversations: Launching the Citizens' Jury Report |
| 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 | Agile supported the Oxford Nature Conversations Citizen's Jury that tackled the question 'How can we make Oxford a city where people and nature thrive together?' that produced a widely shared report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-nature-conversations-launching-the-citizens-jury-r... |
| Description | Participation in the COP30 Debrief at the University of Oxford (2026) |
| 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 | Dr Aline Soterroni contributed to a panel discussion as part of the Oxford delegation to COP30 to offer insights and reflections from the 2025 COP in Belem |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/live/BbD3uGDLA2g |
| Description | People's Assembly for Nature - academic co-lead |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was academic co-lead of the UK's first citizen's assembly for nature over four weekends, presenting on nature's definition and value, on call for provided expert advice when needed by assembly members as they produced the first People's Plan for Nature - launched 23rd March |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://peoplesplanfornature.org/peoples-assembly-nature |
| Description | Place-based governance Sprint policy liaison meetings with Natural Resource Wales (x13) |
| 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 | 13 regular policy liaison meetings with Natural Resource Wales to inform research into place-based governance in Wales that has shaped survey and interview plans with a broader range of stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Place-based governance Sprint poster presentation at IPBES-12 stakeholder day |
| 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 | Approximately 400 people attend from across the public, private, and third sector from more than 100 different countries: https://onet.ipbes.net/node/414. One of the Sprint researchers, Caitlin Hafferty, was featured in the IPBES-12 communications alongside a photo of the poster 'participants at the marketplace of ideas' - see URL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://enb.iisd.org/intergovernmental-science-policy-platform-biodiversity-ecosystem-services-ipbes... |
| Description | Place-based governance Sprint stakeholder co-design workshop at Welsh Government (2025) |
| 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 | This co-design workshop was held at the Welsh Government in the first three months of the Sprint with c.30 members of Natural Resources Wales and broader government staff - the workshop helped to shape the early stages of the Sprint project and co-identify policy hooks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Place-based governance Sprint webpage on Agile website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Webpage to share information on the purpose of this Sprint to generate interest in forthcoming activities and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/how-can-we-deliver-effective-equitable-and-place-based... |
| Description | Place-based working blog on Agile's website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blog created to share information on the purpose of this Sprint's survey and foster further sign-ups to gather perspectives on place-based management processes and how this will contribute to the overarching goals of the Sprint project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/place-based-working-to-meet-national-well-being-and-susta... |
| Description | Planning Advisory Service webinar to present 'Assessing Biodiversity Net Gain plans: a quick guide for planners and developers' to PAS network of Local Planning Authorities, 10th July 2023 |
| 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 | Biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint team organised webinar with the Planning Advisory Service to share the Sprint's BNG guide for planners and developers with the network for input/feedback to help finalise the output for maximum usefulness for its target audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Poster presentation by safe shelf-seas CCS Sprint at the American Geophysical Union (AGU)24 conference December 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The shelf seas CCS Sprint researchers presented findings from the Sprint to encourage further engagement with the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1674489 |
| Description | Presentation at COP30 (10 November 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Event at Brazil's Pavilion in the COP30 Green Zone on mitigation and adaptation, entitled 'Incorporando biodiversidade na adaptação às mudanças climáticas por meio de soluções baseadas na natureza' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.gov.br/mma/pt-br/assuntos/cop30/zona-verde/10nov-greenzone-programacao.pdf |
| Description | Presentation at COP30 (18 November 2025) |
| 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 a side event at the Ukrainian Pavilion, titled 'Nature-based Solutions for Climate-Nature Synergies'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation at COP30 (20 November 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable discussion on how to reconcile Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation by safe shelf-seas CCS Sprint at the British Seismology Meeting March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Joseph Asplet presented initial results/planned research from the shelf seas CCS Sprint to promote related work amongst the UK seismology community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://bsm2024.isc.ac.uk/about/BSM2024-Programme-Schedule.pdf |
| Description | Presentation by safe shelf-seas CCS Sprint at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Anna Rufas Blanco gave a presentation on innovative use of remote sensing technologies to establish an ecological baseline assessment for the inaugural offshore carbon capture and storage site in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/presenting-at-the-ocean-sciences-meeting-anna-rufas/ |
| Description | Presentation by safe shelf-seas CCS Sprint at the Salt Tectonics for the Energy Transition conference September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from the shelf seas CCS Sprint presented research related to evaporite depositional systems, with a particular emphasis on the heterogeneity observed in gypsum networks within the Zechstein Evaporites of the Southern Permian Basin-key to understanding sites like the North Sea's Endurance reservoir. Through 3D seismic surveys, the study reveals extensive branching networks of anomalously thick gypsum zones, challenging the traditional "layer-cake" model of evaporite deposition. These findings underscore the need to reconsider assumptions about lateral uniformity, which is critical for the Endurance reservoir, as such variability directly impacts geological storage, seal integrity, and the effectiveness of long-term carbon containment strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/events/2024/Salt%20Tectonics%20in%20the%20Energy... |
| Description | Presentation by safe shelf-seas CCS Sprint team member at European Associate of Geoscientists and Engineers June 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Thomas Kettlety presented results from the shelf seas CCS Sprint to promote the research and to solicit feedback/collaboration with European colleagues that led to plans for future related activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.earthdoc.org/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.2024101519 |
| Description | Presentation by safe shelf-seas CCS Sprint team member at Geological Society of London CCS Symposum September 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Joseph Asplet gave a presentation on the potential for onshore seismic arrays to be used to monitor offshore microseismicity and the implications of this technology for passive seismic monitoring CCS project in the UK's shelf seas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/events/Energy%20Group/2024%20resources/ccs%20202... |
| Description | Presentation by the ESM spin-up Sprint at Seminar for Atmospheric and Planetary Physics research group at Oxford University 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk to other academics outside of the Sprint research project to explain how the algorithm for ESM spin-up works which influenced the atmospheric scientists and oceanographers from AOPP who attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation by the Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team at the Land, Water, Nature, Food Panel session on Nature-based Solutions and reaching Net Zero for Yorkshire and Humberside Climate Commission 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team were invited to give a talk about their work, including the Agile opportunity maps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://yorksandhumberclimate.org.uk/sites/default/files/Paper%203%20-%208%20March%202023%20%20.pdf |
| Description | Presentation of Agile opportunity maps to the Environment Agency 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Agile NbS Sprint researchers presented the Agile opportunity mapping method to staff from the Environment Agency in 2024 to demonstrate how they could be deployed for nature recovery and land use strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation of findings on EUDR on Brazil's Cerrado at the Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aline Soterroni from the net zero pathways for Brazil Sprint gave a presentation on the importance of broadening the 'forest' definition in the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), particularly for Brazil's Cerrado, a non-forest ecosystem and a biodiversity-rich hotspot that is frequently regarded as a sacrifice zone. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/land-use-biodiversity-climate/ |
| Description | Presentation on the role of Nature-based Solutions in Brazil's climate plan at NbS Conference June 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Shared findings on NbS's role in Brazil's climate plan with prominent researchers, including Brazilian researchers and policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.naturebasedsolutionsoxford.org/team/ |
| Description | Presentation to Berkshire County Council on the Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint's Nature Recovery and NbS Opportunity Maps 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team presented the Agile nature recovery and NbS opportunity maps to a team from Berkshire County Council. They are interested in testing the use of these maps for their Local nature recovery strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation to Buckinghamshire County Council on the Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint's Nature Recovery and NbS Opportunity Maps 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team presented the Agile nature recovery and NbS opportunity maps to a team from Buckinghamshire County Council. They were interested in testing the use of the maps for their local nature recovery strategy (LNRS). This led to an invitation to tender for using the maps for their LNRS, where the team narrowly lost out to a consultant who had done the LNRS pilot work for them, but Buckinghamshire County Council did say they were very impressed with the Sprint team's approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation to Oxford University Estate Services Biodiversity Sub-Group to discuss its potential use of 'Assessing Biodiversity Net Gain plans: a quick guide for planners and developers', 13th September 2023 (online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Biodiversity Net Gain Agile Sprint team gave an online presentation to Oxford University Estate Services Biodiversity Sub-Group to discuss its potential use of the Sprint's output 'Assessing Biodiversity Net Gain plans: a quick guide for planners and developers', on 13th September 2023 which led to the Biodiversity Sub-Group committing to use the guide to help them aim to achieve 20% biodiversity net gain. This has now been actioned for the Begbroke Innovation District plans which have a target for 20% BNG. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presented findings from the Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the 20th July 2023 as part of their Science Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint members presented findings at 20 July 2023 DLUHC science seminar on a cross-cutting method/approach - participatory governance - which spans multiple areas of their research interests and focused on enhancing strategies for participatory governance as a way to build trust and integrity in policy decision-making and place-building. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DLUHC-Science-Seminar-Series-2023-O... |
| Description | Press release - Sprint study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release for Sprint study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability that highlights the paper's importance for achieving shipping decarbonisation by 2050. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ioppublishing.org/news/green-ammonia-could-decarbonize-60-of-global-shipping-when-offered-at... |
| Description | Putting Science into Action: The Agile Initiative Showcase (2025) |
| 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 | Agile's showcase, Putting Science into Action on 20th March 2025, opened up a set of discussions on the learning, appetite for, and further potential of fast-paced, impact-focused research. Sprint researchers presented their work, engaging with a community of researchers, practitioners and policy professionals in an interactive session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/reflections-on-our-showcase-event-putting-science-into-ac... |
| Description | Recipe for Engagement webinar February 2024 |
| 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 | Dr Caitlin Hafferty ran a webinar to present the Recipe for Engagement developed in the Agile NbS Sprint which generated interest in the output as a basis for developing more inclusive, meaningful and impactful public and stakeholder engagement strategies to deliver multiple, integrated benefits for people, nature and climate. The Recipe for Engagement has subsequently been adopted by Highlands Rewilding Tayvallich community platform, and Nattergal, to underpin their respective stakeholder and community engagement strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQrBTaNkhCA |
| Description | Reconnecting Bernwood, Otmoor and the Ray Working Group 2023 |
| 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 | Nature-based Solutions Agile Sprint team invited to join a working group to help identify nature recovery and nature-based solution opportunities for the Bernwood-Otmoor-Ray area, for Buckinghamshire County Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint 'Hunger on our Doorstep' blog (2026) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This blog outlined how the Regenerative Agriculture Sprint engaged with food insecurity in the UK relating to access and affordability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/hunger-on-our-doorstep/ |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint 'Show & Tell' presentation and discussion with Defra (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Regenerative Agriculture Sprint presented their research findings on 25th September to 80 Defra webinar attendees and answered questions to inform Defra's policies around food production, farming and land use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint core stakeholder group meetings (x9) |
| 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 | Core stakeholder meetings arranged by the Sprint team for ongoing co-creation, knowledge exchange and direct input into the research from Defra, The Food Foundation (lead partner), Green Alliance (lead partner), Waitrose, Nestlé, FAIRR, the Landworkers Alliance, the Soil Association, the RSPB, the Nature Friendly Farming Network, the Pasture Fed Livestock Association, the British Ecological Society, the John Innes Centre, Hodmedod's held on 19th February, 18th March, 16th April, 7th May, 21st May, 18th June, 16th August, 10th September, and 5th November. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint core stakeholder group meetings 2024, 2025 |
| 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 | Core stakeholder workshop meetings arranged by the Sprint team for ongoing co-creation, knowledge exchange and direct input into the research from Defra, The Food Foundation (lead partner), Green Alliance (lead partner), Waitrose, Nestlé, FAIRR, the Landworkers Alliance, the Soil Association, the RSPB, the Nature Friendly Farming Network, the Pasture Fed Livestock Association, the British Ecological Society, the John Innes Centre, Hodmedod's held on 7th October, 4th November, 4th December 2024; 15th January 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint partner meetings 2024, 2025 |
| 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 | Regular working group meetings with the Regenerative Agriculture Sprint team's external partners the Food Foundation and the Green Alliance Trust to help shape the research, draw on external partner expertise and resources and knowledge exchange on 30th October, 20th November 2024 and 18th December, 15th January 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint partners meetings (x4) |
| 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 | Regular catch-ups with the Regenerative Agriculture Sprint team's external partners the Food Foundation and the Green Alliance Trust to help shape the research, draw on external partner expertise and resources and knowledge exchange on 10th February, 5th March, 9th April, 11th June 2025. These meetings helped to inform the policy briefs and reports co-authored by the Sprint team and the partner organisations, and hosted on the partner organisations' websites. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint presentation to the John Innes Centre / UEA Sustainable Wheat Programme stakeholder group (September 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The session included a 40 minute presentation along with Q&A from those present about implications for cereal production in the UK. The webinar was recorded as part of a series run by the Sustainable Wheat programme, and shared with their network. The content was then written up as part of the series once completed and shared with this group (which combines researchers and industry working on cereal development). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint researcher Dr Richard Kipling interviewed for BBC's 'Farming Today' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Richard Kipling was interviewed by BBC journalist Anna Hill (Farming Today) at the Oxford Real Farming Conference in January. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2026 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002pptd |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint shaped and contributed to British Ecological Society's Symposium (June 2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Sprint helped organise and participated in the British Ecological Society Nature, Farming and Food symposium to debate the environmental impacts of food production to help scientists, policymakers and people on the ground to work together to transform food systems in the UK and across the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-symposium-2025/welcome-to-the-bes-symposium-202... |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint stakeholder workshop (March 2025) |
| 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 | The event convened participants working in regenerative agriculture who learned from each other and fed into the wider debate around the understanding of, practice and policy opportunities that regenerative agriculture makes possible. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint stakeholder workshop (November 2025) |
| 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 | The event convened stakeholders working in regenerative agriculture to share the findings from the Sprint so that stakeholders could benefit from the learning and share it with their networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Regenerative Agriculture Sprint webpage on Agile website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A webpage to describe the Regenerative Agriculture Sprint project that can be updated with news items and outputs and used for wider engagement with the Sprint project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/sprints/can-regenerative-agriculture-deliver-nutritious-food-a... |
| Description | Round table event with Rita de Mesquita, head of the Secretary on Biodiversity at Brazil's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change 2024 |
| 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 | Dr Aline Soterroni of the Brazil net zero Sprint co-organised and contributed to a round table discussion with Rita de Mesquita, the head of the Secretary on Biodiversity at Brazil's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, discussed her secretariat's key priorities and achievements. She focused on combating deforestation and biodiversity loss, expanding protected areas in the Amazon, and advancements in the bioeconomy under the G20. Rita also addressed the challenges of aligning international climate and biodiversity agendas as we approach CBD COP16 in Cali this year and COP30 in Belém next year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Salve, Terra! Frear o aquecimento global - podcast 2023 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Research Lead from Agile's 'How can Brazil achieve net zero emissions? Sprint participated in a podcast to highlight findings from journal publication based on research funded by Agile on the role of nature-based solutions in achieving Brazil net zero. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://music.amazon.com/es-co/podcasts/337abdda-949c-4145-9ccb-1feccc4a80e7/episodes/ee53cba5-9e49-... |
| Description | Securing a Sustainable Future for the Amazon Agricultural Frontier (Blue Zone COP30 event) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Erika Berenguer gave a talk at the Coalition for Rainforest Nations Pavilion at the Blue Zone of COP30 in which she presented the result of the policy brief she developed for the Sprint |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Seminar at GEOMAR Helmholtz Institute for Ocean Research, Kiel Germany, Dec 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ESM Spin-up Sprint researchers gave a talk to other experts in earth system modelling on how the algorithm for ESM spin-up works which influenced the biogeochemists who attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sharing emerging evidence from the climate shocks and childhood violcence Sprint with Abe Bailey Travel Scholars - 11 December 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In an effort to promote South-South learning and leadership with South African researchers, Dr's Neil Hart and Bothaina Eltigani shared their Agile Sprint research with a cohort of Abe Bailey Travel scholars to inspire further research into climate emergencies across Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Shelf-seas CCS Sprint stakeholder engagement workshop 1st March 2024 |
| 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 | The shelf seas CCS Sprint ran a Chatham House rules stakeholder workshop to present Sprint research findings to date and get direction on final research outputs, plus planning for potential follow-on activities around principles for geological CO2 storage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/sprint-team-on-safe-co2-shelf-sea-storage-publish-initial... |
| Description | Speeding up research with the Agile Initiative (2025) |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Agile researchers and governance members participate in a video to explain the benefits of the Agile Initiative research model to a wider audience of researchers and stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/iC8-mORpaMk?si=jZ5XBHAi2G_atjRs |
| Description | Sprint 7 presentation to DAERA Jan 2024 |
| 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 | Meeting on methane reporting with DAERA and AgriSearch, highlighting benefits of emission reductions and nuances in climate science and policy in setting targets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Stakeholders join together to discuss scaling-up green ammonia for shipping 2023 |
| 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 | Agile Sprint team presented key findings from the first spatially-detailed global optimisation model for green ammonia production and delivery, which included shipping fuel demand forecasts and wind and solar energy cost forecasts. This knowledge exchange led to input from stakeholders on the usefulness of the findings that helped to inform the Sprint's research outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/news/stakeholders-join-together-to-discuss-scaling-up-green-am... |
| Description | Study: Just 10 green ammonia hubs could deliver global low-carbon shipping transition (Business Green, 09 January 2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Media report of the green ammonia Sprint published research to wider audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4161368/study-green-ammonia-hubs-deliver-global-low-carbon-shippi... |
| Description | Talk at CESM Biogeochemistry Working Group Workshop 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk given by the ESM Spin-up Sprint researchers to other experts in earth system modelling on how the algorithm for ESM spin-up works which influenced the biogeochemists who attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/working-groups/biogeo |
| Description | Talk given at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, "In search of the one holy grail: the one true biodiversity metric", 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given by the Agile Biodiversity Net Gain Sprint lead to researchers at Oxford (and on a separate occasion, at the University of Sussex) which included findings from the Agile Sprint in a talk on the various ways a biodiversity metric can be conceptualised and put into practice, which prompted questions and discussions afterwards, leading to the audience reporting changes to views and opinions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/events/event/in-search-of-the-holy-grail-the-one-true-biodiversi... |
| Description | The AGILE Initiative: Results from a year-long academic BNG evidence-gathering project (webinar 15th May 2023) |
| 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 | Webinar organised by the biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint team to discuss with stakeholders from Defra and Natural England the need for a more holistic approach for biodiversity indicators and social equity when designing and implementing BNG, better understanding of the trade-offs and synergies between local, regional and national strategies for biodiversity and social benefit, and importance of scrutiny of applications and pre and post implementation monitoring for both compliance and learning being critical to the success of BNG. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/258bacb4-0138-4e4d-b1c0-6b00041059d6@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4b... |
| Description | The Agile Initiative interview with Peter Barbrook-Johnson YouTube video August 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This video is part of the 'Policy Engagement' training programme delivered by the Institute for Methods Innovation, Fast Track Impact and Walcott Communications Limited on behalf of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In this interview, Peter Barbrook-Johnson, Deputy Director of the Agile Initiative, introduces the programme and its mission to enhance the interaction between scientific evidence and policymaking. He explains the concept of Agile research Sprints and highlights the importance of co-creation, interdisciplinarity, and equality, ensuring that diverse voices shape the research process. He also discusses the continuous improvement and feedback mechanisms within the Agile Initiative, providing practical examples of how the programme has influenced policy decisions. This conversation offers insights into how researchers can engage with the Agile Initiative to contribute to impactful, timely research that informs policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JInI31Cb-lU |
| Description | The Oxford Nature Recovery Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this symposium, we bring together researchers working on the science that could underpin planning for nature recovery with decision-makers and practitioners working within government, industry and civil society, to discuss how science could best be deployed to support decisions for nature recovery. Our aims are to: Highlight the work being done by researchers to understand the potential impacts of land use decisions on biodiversity, people, and landscape integrity, both empirical and conceptual and using a range of methodological approaches - in the UK and overseas. Explore synergies and gaps in the science currently being carried out by research groups across the country to inform nature recovery in the UK, including Biodiversity Net Gain and the implementation of the Environment Act. Understand different perspectives on the main questions which still need to be addressed in order to support effective land use planning in the UK. Our symposium is small and highly interactive, based around discussion groups rather than speeches. Our aim is to promote collaboration and to support the generation of new ideas. The insights generated will feed directly into the Natural England Conference on Nature Recovery, to be held at the Royal Geographical Society directly afterwards, on 30th and 31st March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/oxford-nature-recovery-symposium/ |
| Description | The Oxford Nature Recovery Symposium 27-28 March 2023 |
| 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, organised by the biodiversity net gain Agile Sprint team brought together researchers and stakeholders working on/involved with science to underpin planning for nature recovery to discuss how science could best be deployed to support decisions for nature recovery with intended outcome of highlighting research to understand potential impacts of land-use decisions on biodiversity, people and landscape integrity, explore synergies in the research currently underway to inform nature recovery in the UK and identify gaps in the science, and to understand different perspectives on the main questions that need to be addressed to support effective land-use planning in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Nature-Recovery-Symposium-Report.pd... |
| Description | The future of UK agriculture: balancing food security and environmental stewardship (2025) |
| 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 | Agile's Research Fellow Dr Jennifer Dodsworth featured as part of the expert panel in this Royal Geographical Society talk that explored the evolving landscape of UK agriculture and the difficult, but essential, balance between feeding a growing population and protecting the environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/events/talks-on-demand/future-uk-agriculture |
| Description | The future of the global green ammonia industry for shipping webinar 2024 |
| 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 webinar presented the Agile Sprint team's findings on future scenarios of global ammonia production and ship fuelling. The event had an audience of stakeholders from industry, policymakers, shipping companies, port authorities, regulatory bodies, finance institutions, NGOs, researchers and other stakeholders working on decarbonisation in the shipping, energy and other closely related industries who were interested in the findings from the Sprint team's study and how it could be applied to their own organisations. Attendees reported interest in engaging with the findings, and the event led to further connections, such as with the Port of London Authority. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/the-future-of-the-global-green-ammonia-industry-f... |
| Description | Third Green Corridor workshop in Rotterdam 2023 |
| 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 | As part of ongoing involvement with the Singapore-Rotterdam Green and Digital Shipping Corridor April-September 2023, Agile Sprint team member attended the Third Green Corridor workshop in Rotterdam (September 2023) to input learning from the Sprint at an event at which the Port of Rotterdam Authority, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), and 20 partners in the Green & Digital Shipping Corridor partnered to reduce emissions from international shipping by 2030. This engagement led to an invitation to attend a further Green Corridor workshop in Rotterdam in 2024, based on the importance of the research for the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://cms.globalmaritimeforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Global-Maritime-Forum_Annual-Progress... |
| Description | Tom Atkins: presentation to the HERO network providing a project overview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tom Atkins: presentation to the HERO network providing an overview of the Sprint, July 2022. Attendees included members of Oxford University, Oxfordshire-based NGOs (such as BBOWT, Wild Oxfordshire, Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment), members of local political parties, and council members from each local council. The presentation can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJTyAIj8Grc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Using a theory of change in an Agile Sprint (part of the Research planning workshop series) April 2024 |
| 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 | Webinar workshop to help Sprint applicants to develop a full proposal and for those generally interested in Agile to learn about using a theory of change in an Agile Sprint that attracted interest and active participation during the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/using-a-theory-of-change-in-an-agile-sprint/ |
| Description | Using systems thinking in environmental and societal challenges (2025) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Birgit Kopainsky gave a talk on behalf of the Agile Initiative to an audience of interdisciplinary and policy engaged researchers on systems thinking as a framework for understanding the feedback loops, delays, and non-linearities that characterise environmental and societal challenges, and explored how systems thinking and modelling tools can help negotiate a shared understanding of a challenge, highlight unintended consequences of interventions, identify leverage points, and support more resilient and adaptive policy design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/using-systems-thinking-in-environmental-and-socie... |
| Description | What does interdisciplinarity look like in Agile Sprints? (part of the Research planning workshop series) May 2024 |
| 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 | Webinar workshop to help Sprint applicants to develop a full proposal and for those generally interested in Agile to understand how Agile approaches interdisciplinarity and how it can work best in an Agile Sprint that attracted interest and active participation during the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/what-does-interdisciplinarity-look-like-in-agile-... |
| Description | What is involved in leading and managing an Agile Sprint? (part of the research planning workshop series) May 2024 |
| 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 | Webinar workshop to help Sprint applicants to develop a full proposal and for those generally interested in Agile to understand the factors involved and gain best practice insights that attracted interest and active participation during the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event/what-is-involved-in-leading-and-managing-an-agile... |
| Description | Workshop with the Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom, 8 March 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aline Soterroni showcased her research from the net zero pathways for Brazil Sprint to help foster connections with the Brazilian Embassy in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | YouTube video of ESM Spin-up Sprint's presentation at NCAR's CESM workshop, June 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation recording to share the Sprint's findings on spinning up earth systems modelling efficiently using sequence acceleration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/live/u-Rg8d2OtG8?t=8445s |