A PhD student’s reflections on making the most a policy secondment

Harriet Dudley, a third year PhD researcher at the University of East Anglia reflects on her recent secondment with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology: “I study the conditions under which policymakers will (not) use expert climate policy advice to shape policy. I recently returned from a Research Fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of…

New ScienceBrief Review on the impact of advisory bodies on climate policy

3S member Harriet Dudley recently had her first lead author publication. It was a ScienceBrief review paper that reviewed the existing evidence of the impact of independent expert advisory bodies on the design and delivery of climate policy. The review paper synthesises findings from more than 20 peer−reviewed scientific articles gathered using ScienceBrief. The publication was…

Fully-funded PhD positions in 3S

We currently have two competition-funded PhD positions available in the 3S Research Group, to start in September 2020. Both of these positions offer full funding for home and EU students and would be based in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA, Norwich, UK. Tom Hargreaves and Gill Seyfang are the academic supervisors on the project…