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SEERAD Research Strategy
After consultation with a wide range of interested parties, the ' Strategic Research for SEERAD 2005-2010: Environment, Biology and Agriculture' was published in 2005. The Strategy is based on 3 main objectives:
- To procure scientific research that is of high quality and strategically relevant to Scottish Ministers' policy, legislative and enforcement functions
- To improve knowledge and technology transfer from, and public awareness of, the research and it's outputs
- To ensure that those parts of the research base funded by SEERAD Science and Research Group are effective and efficient
The new Research Strategy has been developed from the findings of the Research Needs and Priorities Review (RNPR). The review advised that future research should be more policy relevant and focused on the needs of the Scottish Executive and Scotland. Many of the areas that SEERAD was funding were confirmed as still being relevant and these were developed into four Programmes of Research. In addition three important research issues were identified as having influence across all the four Programmes of Research. These are climate change, biodiversity and rural sustainability. These Cross-Cutting Themes (CCTs) will be addressed by research in and across the four main Research Programmes.
Cross-Cutting Themes (CCTs)
Programmes and Work packages
Commissioning Process
Peer Review
A number of reports fed into the strategy review:
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