BES Facebook pageBES Annual Meeting 2010
7 - 9 September,
University of Leeds, UK
BES Lecture
Tuesday 7 September
The British Ecological Society is excited to announce that Professor Andrew Watkinson (Director of Living With Environmental Change) will be delivering the BES Lecture at the 2010 BES Annual Meeting. Keep up to date with the BES Lecture, the Presidential Address and the Thematic Topics by reading the BES 2010 Annual Meeting blog!
Title: Making a difference: research with impact
Society faces a range of challenges from climate change through to biodiversity conservation. In addressing these challenges it is essential that a robust evidence framework is provided for action. There is, in addition, a growing imperative for research to be seen to stimulate the economy and, in particular, the green economy. Consequently researchers are being increasingly asked to provide evidence of the impact and value of their research and to be involved with knowledge exchange. Government, business and society need the foresight, knowledge and tools in mitigating, adapting to and capitalising on environmental change. Whilst there is resistance from certain quarters to the impacts agenda, I suspect that many of us became involved with ecology and the British Ecological Society because we wanted to make a difference to the world in which we live. What can we do to make a difference?
Academic Background:
Andrew Watkinson is Director of the Living With Environmental Change programme. He was, until recently, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, with research interests in interdisciplinary aspects of climate change, ecology and coastal zone management.
Andrew trained as an ecologist at York and the University of Wales, Bangor, before moving to the University of East Anglia. He was one of the lead authors on the Foresight report on Future Flooding commissioned by the Office of Science and Technology and was involved with the recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He serves on a number of Research Council and Government committees.
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