How does academic research actually reach the people making decisions at Holyrood? It’s a question that sits at the heart of what FORTH2O is trying to do, and one we’ve been exploring directly with some of those who enable this.
In this second post revisiting our vision for FORTH2O, we reflect on early ambitions to connect social science approaches and a new datalab to the Forth-ERA project.
FORTH2O represents the pursuit of an ambitious three-step aim to: (1) connect a world leading digital observatory of the Firth of Forth’s entire water catchment (Forth Environmental Resilience Array, Forth-ERA) to (2) a new social and economic data lab, and…