The Scottish Government have funded Centres of Expertise in areas of high policy importance to deliver evidence directly to policy.
As the Centres of Expertise for Waters, our science-policy priorities are to:
- Deliver evidence needed to implement regulations on protecting and improving the water environment.
- Provide expert advice for policy needs on ongoing and emerging opportunities and challenges in areas such as water quality & health, a net-zero circular economy & societal perceptions of water issues.
- Engage with a wide range of information users and communities, to maximise the benefits of the research to society.
Through our projects and wider engagement activities, we:
- Deliver timely and accurate advice
- Coordinate and fund research, analysis and interpretation
- Stimulate innovative and proactive thinking
- Develop an ethos of co-production and genuine knowledge exchange
- Develop the networks and skills of researchers, policy makers and practitioners to make best use of available science leading to improved environmental, social and economic outcomes.
Academic Partners
CREW is a partnership between the James Hutton Institute, Scottish Higher Education Institutes and Research Institutes: