methodology Archives

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Co-creating the future: exploring practices of citizen science research across Europe

Journal article / This paper shares learnings from a discussion on co-creation practices across Europe, which we led at the 2024 European Citizen Science Association conference.

21 October 2024 / About Participation

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SAPIENT: Sustainability mApper for Planning and InvestmENT

Tool / A sophisticated Machine Learning tool, designed to act as your ally in assessing the alignment of projects, policies, and actions with the SDGs and more.

About Finance, Innovation and Sustainable Development Goals

Plastic apparatus made of two floating containers connected with tubes and an orange float sit on a silvery water surface.

Methods for measuring greenhouse gas emissions from sanitation and wastewater management systems

SEI report / Researchers analysed seven categories of enclosure-based and open methods described previously and discuss applications across different sanitation settings.

8 July 2024 / About Mitigation and Sanitation

Three young adults sitting at a table with laptops, notebooks and drinks and laughing.

Citizen science and youth mental health: co-creating future research

Past event / See Rhys Archer's insights from the Youth LIVES project, as shared at the European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation (ENMESH) conference.

04 July 2024 / About Wellbeing

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Navigating for results in complex environments – in search of pragmatic bureaucracy

Project / The aim of this project is to build knowledge and assess how staff at Folke Bernadotte Academy navigate the demands for results reporting and measurement.

2024 - 2026 / About Innovation and Public policy

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Exploring the social and cultural values of trees and woodlands in England: a new composite measure

Journal article / Researchers developed a method for quantifying the social and cultural values of treescapes, creating a composite measure which can be used by policymakers.

13 May 2024 / About Public policy

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SAMHE mini-workshop at the 2024 Software Sustainability Institute Collaborations Workshop

Past event / Sam Bland hosted this session on the SAMHE project and the opportunities and challenges of using web apps to engage young people in citizen science.

01 May 2024 / About Innovation, Participation and Pollution

High angle shot of a street on a rainy day. Two red trams are on the left-hand side of the image, and a line of cars, brake lights visible, queues at a red traffic light on the right. Drifting smoke partially obscures the bottom half of the image. Pedestrians move around the space, crossing the road through the smoke and getting onto one of the trams.

Improving consistency in estimating future health burdens from environmental risk factors: case study for ambient air pollution

Journal article / Researchers developed an enhanced methodology to estimate future health burdens from air pollution. The new estimates improved strikingly upon previous metrics.

24 April 2024 / About Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

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Course set for sustainable consumption in Sweden

Feature / Discover how SEI's Consumption Compass aids Swedish municipalities is boosting smarter consumption.

24 April 2024 / About Cities, Climate policy, Innovation, Mitigation and Sustainable lifestyles