Interpreting and targeting NERC-funded research outputs to inform and influence marine policy

知识交流活动往往受到资金的限制，科学界推崇的传播形式，如同行评议出版物和科学会议演讲，不适合向政策制定者和决策者传播研究成果。政策制定者和科学家使用各自以行话为中心的语言进行交流，这导致了两个群体之间的沟通错误和缺乏理解。因此，科学研究可能无法纳入决策过程，最终用户要么不知道，要么不清楚地了解科学如何为管理、适应和缓解方案提供支持和信息。为了成功实施海洋政策，良好的科学研究必须支持政策指标的制定和环境目标的设定；英国政府可能要为超过或没有达到这些具有法律约束力的目标负责。该项目旨在促进CPR科学、专业知识和数据的使用，以支持英国、欧盟和国际决策，同时确定SAHFOS数据和科学的新机会和与政策相关的应用。该奖学金将通过参与国家和国际中上层专家小组的参与，将科学政策专业知识和CPR数据整合到英国和欧盟的政治进程中，包括领导英国和奥斯巴各级中上层栖息地MSFD的实施，以及成为英国和国际关键政策委员会的成员。CPR数据和研究将转化为有针对性的政策相关科学建议，供英国、欧盟和国际政策和决策者使用，特别关注由NERC资助的传播不足的CPR研究。将确定CPR研究和数据的新最终用户，以培养新的知识交流联系和应用。将对政策建议、差距和未来需求进行评估，以便将CPR研究引向政策相关性。这些旨在有效应用和发展CPR科学的步骤将产生更好的证据来支持海洋管理和养护。申请人在与英国、欧盟和国际政策和决策者的接触和沟通方面经验丰富，并在CPR研究和政策需求之间建立联系，并拥有广泛的英国和欧盟科学政策网络。然而，她的工作一再受到资金限制的限制，这导致了产生政策影响的活动的效率低下和影响范围有限。许多根据CPR数据产生政策影响的机会资金不足，创收合同和项目往往必然被优先考虑。尽管她目前正在为MSFD的实施做出贡献，并为证据小组提供服务，但这项工作只得到了部分和不一致的资助，必须在有限的资源允许的情况下进行。KE奖学金将消除将CPR科学应用于政策执行的资金障碍，并促进将CPR研究和数据直接纳入英国和国际政策进程。该奖学金将使申请人能够在专门的工作时间内始终如一地高效地开展政策影响工作，并将使她能够更好地利用她的联系人网络，更有效地利用CPR科学。一个关键组成部分将是为国家环境政策研究中心资助的从未传播的工作产生政策影响--MSFD核心合同微生物基因研究的应用以及全球CPR调查联盟(GACS)的国际政策影响。

Knowledge exchange activities are often limited in funding, and the communication formats respected in the scientific community, such as peer-reviewed publications and scientific conference talks, are not appropriate to disseminate research to policy and decision makers. Policy makers and scientists communicate in their own jargon-centric languages, which leads to miscommunications and lack of understanding between the two groups. Consequently, scientific research may not be integrated in to the decision making process, with end users left either unaware of or not clearly understanding how science can support and inform management, adaptation and mitigation options. It is crucial that good scientific research supports the development of policy indicators and setting of environmental targets in order to successfully implement marine policy; the UK government could be held responsible for exceeding or not meeting these legally binding targets. This project seeks to promote the use of CPR science, expertise and data to support UK, EU, and international decision-making while identifying new opportunities and policy-relevant applications for SAHFOS data and science. The fellowship will integrate science-policy expertise and CPR data into the UK and EU political processes through the involvement in national and international pelagic expert groups, including leadership of the implementation of the MSFD for pelagic habitats at the UK and OSPAR levels, and membership on key UK and international policy boards. CPR data and research will be transformed to targeted policy-relevant scientific advice for UK, EU and international policy and decision makers, with particular focus on under-disseminated NERC-funded CPR research. New end users of CPR research and data will be identified in order to cultivate new knowledge exchange links and applications. Policy advice gaps and future needs will be assessed in order to steer CPR research towards policy relevance. These steps towards the effective application and development of CPR science will result in better evidence to support marine management and conservation. The applicant is experienced in engaging and communicating with UK, EU and international policy and decision makers, and drawing links between CPR research and policy needs and has a wide UK and EU science-policy network. However, her work is repeatedly constrained by funding limitations which have resulted in inefficiencies and boundaries to the effectiveness and reach of policy impact-generating activities. Many opportunities to create policy impact from CPR data are underfunded and revenue-earning contracts and projects are often necessarily prioritised. Although she is currently contributing to MSFD implementation and serving on evidence groups, the work is only partially and inconsistently funded and must be performed as limited resources allow. This KE Fellowship will remove the funding barrier to applying CPR science to policy implementation and facilitate the direct inclusion of CPR research and data into the UK and international policy process. The fellowship will enable the applicant to consistently and efficiently perform policy impact generating work in dedicated working time, and will allow her to better utilise her network of contacts to more effectively exploit CPR science. A key component will be the generation of policy impact for NERC-funded work which has never been disseminated - MSFD application of core contract microbial genetic research and international policy impact of the Global Alliance of CPR Surveys (GACS).