Highlands and Islands Climate Change Grant
Would you be interested in exploring climate change in your community in the Highlands and Islands through connecting with a researcher? Or are you a researcher? How can we come together to make a difference locally?
The British Science Association Highlands and Islands Climate Change Community grant will support and bridge communities in the Highlands and Islands to work with a researcher and build beneficial relationships to take local action on climate change.
Grants of up to £4,500 will be available to community groups to run a project or activity on a local climate change issue that will benefit your community and involve working with a researcher.
The project or activity should run from April to October 2022 while concluding with a project celebration and evaluation meeting.
If you have a project or idea but no connection to a researcher we will be able to match you up with a researcher with the appropriate skills and expertise. If you already work with a researcher, you are also welcomed to apply.
If you are a researcher, you can register your interest to keep updated, find out more about the grant and possibly be matched with communities based on developing interests. Researchers will be matched with communities in March 2022, once the funded projects have been decided.
Guest speakers on two panels were invited to explain their take on the current conditions of Climate Change within the Highlands and Islands and how communities and researchers could work together. Guest speakers are listed below along with links of their organisations if you'd like to find out more.
Panel 1:
Joan Lawrie from North Highlands and Islands Climate Hub & Highland Adapts
Jean-Matthieu Gaunand from Scottish Communities Climate Action Network
Dr Steve Scott, UK Research and Innovation from UKRI
Panel 2:
Fiona Rennie from Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn//Galson Estate Trust (Projects include Stories of Radical Landownership in North Lewis)
Lyndsay Cochrane from Scotland the Bread
Dr Fiona Henderson from Glasgow Caledonian University
Peter Lefort from Green Futures Network & Transition Network
For those who couldn't join in on the webinar on Monday the 20th of December or would like to watch it again, the recording is now available below.
During the webinar a collective document was used to capture who was in the room, share ideas and questions, this is available below.
The British Science Association Highlands and Islands Climate Change Grant application form is now available below with the deadline of Monday the 31st of January at 5pm.
If you have any questions, you can contact the British Science Association communities team
Questions that were raised during the webinar have also been updated into the British Science Association FAQ’s.
