Make Space for BEES

为蜜蜂腾出空间

• 批准号: AH/Z505468/1
• 负责人: Katharine S. Willis
• 金额: $ 12.78万
• 依托单位: Plymouth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ505468%2F1
• 关键词: Make; Space; BEES

In order to deliver the green transition we need to empower people to take action to care for their natural environment. One of the ways in which people can most actively contribute is through supporting pollinator habitats to create flourishing biodiversity ecosystems. Digital tools such as citizen science has the potential to deepen connections between people and nature and to increase local participation in caring for and managing local greenspaces.The project aims to develop design-led solutions to address specific challenges facing biodiversity through developing a rewilding tool to be used by younger people to support pollinator habitats. It will address the challenge of how to enable young people to take action to address biodiversity challenges and empower them to take action and see tangible changes in their local environment; their secondary school grounds. The project will collaborate with the award winning non-academic organization Pollenize CIC who have been developing new ways to track and improve biodiversity that enables insects to recover. As a result, the social enterprise has gained huge momentum, leading them to become a key player in driving environmental research and social change within the city and beyond. We will build on the existing track record of both organisations (Pollenize and University of Plymouth) of developing innovative design solutions using digital tools for young people to positively contribute to nature recovery within the places in which they study and live. The project will work in Cornwall in a place based approach in six schools located in communities that are characterised as deprived.Our project also has an embedded approach to build capacity in the project partners through programmes of training, mentoring and collaborative knowledge exchange. The Research Associate will work in a 'Design Researcher in Residence' (DIR) approach, spending time co-hosted with both Pollenize and the schools identified for the project co-design and implementation.The impact we plan to achieve will be created through creating pathways to environmental citizenship by giving young people tools to proactively support and protect pollinating insects. In doing so it will actively contribute to increasing the abundance and diversity of pollinating insects in school grounds which will measure and evaluate over the course of the project. The wider impact of the project will be the alignment of the outcomes with the work of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust who have the collective target of enabling 1 in 4 people taking action for wildlife and nationally with the National Education Nature Park project led by Learning Through Landscapes which gives young people the opportunity to transform their learning sites for nature and become part of a network of sites that form the National Education Nature Park. The Make Space for Bees project will align with these strategies and create pathways for national impact in transforming young people's relationship with their school grounds and contributing to pollinator recovery to support biodiversity.

为了实现绿色转型，我们需要赋予人们采取行动保护自然环境的权力。人们可以做出最积极贡献的方式之一是支持传粉者的栖息地，以创造繁荣的生物多样性生态系统。公民科学等数字工具有可能加深人与自然之间的联系，并增加当地参与照顾和管理当地绿色空间。该项目旨在开发以设计为主导的解决方案，通过开发年轻人用于支持传粉媒介栖息地的重新野生化工具，解决生物多样性面临的具体挑战。它将解决如何使年轻人能够采取行动应对生物多样性挑战的挑战，并赋予他们采取行动并看到当地环境发生切实变化的能力；他们的中学场地。该项目将与获奖的非学术组织Pollenize CIC合作，该组织一直在开发跟踪和改善生物多样性的新方法，使昆虫能够恢复。因此，社会企业获得了巨大的动力，使它们成为推动城市内外环境研究和社会变革的关键参与者。我们将以两个组织（Pollenize和普利茅斯大学）的现有记录为基础，利用数字工具为年轻人开发创新的设计解决方案，为他们学习和生活的地方的自然恢复做出积极贡献。该项目将在康沃尔郡的六所学校开展，这些学校位于贫困社区。我们的项目还采用了一种嵌入式方法，通过培训、指导和协作性知识交流计划，帮助项目合作伙伴建立能力。研究助理将以“常驻设计研究员”（DIR）的方式工作，花时间与Pollenize和确定为项目共同设计和实施的学校共同主持。我们计划实现的影响将通过为年轻人提供积极支持和保护传粉昆虫的工具，创造环境公民的途径来实现。在此过程中，它将积极有助于增加学校场地传粉昆虫的丰度和多样性，这将在项目过程中进行测量和评估。该项目的更广泛影响将是与康沃尔野生动物信托基金会的工作成果保持一致，该基金会的共同目标是使四分之一的人为野生动物和全国采取行动，并与由景观学习牵头的国家教育自然公园项目相结合，该项目使年轻人有机会将他们的学习地点转变为自然，并成为组成国家教育自然公园的网站网络的一部分。“为蜜蜂创造空间”项目将与这些战略保持一致，并为改变年轻人与校园的关系、促进传粉媒介的恢复以支持生物多样性创造具有全国影响力的途径。