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Why engage with policymakers?
In our latest guest blog, Dr Anna Krzywoszynska from Durham University reflects on the workshop session she ran on ‘Policy engagement and the nexus’ in the afternoon of the Nexus Network Annual Conference on 19 November 2015. Why engage with policymakers (at all)? As academics, we are encouraged by our universities and the funding bodies […]
Defra Open Environment 4 Nov 2015
A team from the Nexus Network and the Valuing Nature Partnership ran a session on ‘Natural Capital: data, valuation and decision implementation‘ on 4 November 2015, as part of the Defra #OpenEnvironment 2 day consultation. Rory Stewart MP, Defra Minister with responsibility for the natural environment, floods and water, resource and environmental management and rural affairs, […]
Defra Fellow report
Dr Anna Krzywoszynska, Post Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University, has published her findings on how the nexus domains are currently being approached within the Department of Food and Rural Affairs and where there are opportunities for furthering cross-domain dialogue and action. This work was carried out as a joint Nexus Network – Defra fellowship, with […]
Welcome to Nexus Network-Defra Fellow Anna Krzywoszynska
We are very pleased to welcome Dr Anna Krzywoszynska, Post Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University, as the as Nexus Network-Defra Fellow. Anna starts her role on 18 March 2015 and will base her Fellowship at Defra’s London office over a period of 5 months. The aim of the Fellowship is to explore Nexus issues at […]
Call closed: Nexus Network Defra Fellow
this call has now closed. Nexus Network Policy Placement in Defra on ‘Environmental values and valuation at the nexus‘. The deadline for applications is 4pm on Wednesday 7 January 2015. An opportunity for a four month secondment into Defra has become available, to work at the interface between research and policy through the Nexus Network. […]
