dr rebecca edwards: working across sectors

Dr Rebecca EdwardsResearch Fellow

ESRC Third Sector Research Centre

About our research• ‘Environment’ stream of the Third Sector

Research Centre• Three year programme of work exploring the

environment:– Mapping the environmental third sector– Mainstreaming of the environment across the

third sector: policy and implementation– Third sector innovations for low carbon practices

Importance of the third sector in environmental communication

• Third sector and its role in environmental communication

• Third sector is crucial to innovating news ways in communicating environment action:

– Social marketing– Values and frames– Towards an ecopsychology

How could more cross-sector working help?

• Sharing skills and knowledge• Maximising impact• Developing innovation with

capacity building• Many positive examples to

date

It isn’t easy being green…• Developing effective

approaches• Supporting multiple

ways of understanding approaches

• Finding a place in the big ‘green’ society

Learning more about partnership

• Need to know more about the third sector and the environment

• Learn about how cross-sector working can engage society with climate change mitigation and adaptation