About Drought Handbook: Outputs & Impacts
As the UK’s £12m Drought and Water Scarcity (DWS) research programme reaches its conclusion with a final event at The Royal Society in London, this handbook draws together the key outputs and outcomes. The book also features a series of interviews with our leading stakeholders, which highlight how successfully we have met our objectives to produce cutting-edge science that has made a demonstrable impact on how decision-makers manage water scarcity in the UK.
As the UK’s £12m Drought and Water Scarcity (DWS) research programme reaches its conclusion with a final event at The Royal Society in London, this handbook draws together the key outputs and outcomes. The book also features a series of interviews with our leading stakeholders, which highlight how successfully we have met our objectives to produce cutting-edge science that has made a demonstrable impact on how decision-makers manage water scarcity in the UK.
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NEWS VIDEOS,<br />
PODCASTS & MYTH-<br />
BUSTING FILMS<br />
The ENDOWS Events & Engagement workstream’s (WS7) ‘audience<br />
first’ approach extended to an innovative ‘news documentary’ style of<br />
short films and podcasts, produced by national broadcast journalists to<br />
capture the interest of the general public as well as our stakeholders,<br />
particularly those tasked with drought communications. We engaged<br />
news journalists to film on location and carry out interviews at our<br />
<strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> Showcase in March 2018 and the MaRIUS Workshop<br />
in 2017. We asked them to take the same approach as they would to<br />
a TV news assignment, picking out the angles they found most newsworthy<br />
and selecting their own interviewees and questions. Dr Rebecca<br />
Pearce sourced a series of evocative and informative audio interviews<br />
with people who experienced the 1976 drought first-hand from varying<br />
aspects – for instance, did you know that in 1976 firefighters tackled<br />
moorland blazes wearing plastic uniform over-trousers that were melting<br />
in the heat? WS7 has presented this ‘Who’d Have Thought That…’ series<br />
on our own channel on the SoundCloud platform, promoting it on social<br />
media and at our own events. The series of <strong>Drought</strong> Myth Busting videos<br />
debunks popular misconceptions – such as ‘<strong>Drought</strong>s Only Happen In<br />
Summer’ – through interviews on location with people on the frontline<br />
of water shortages, as well as <strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> experts.<br />
MaRIUS - Intro and Summary<br />
<strong>About</strong> <strong>Drought</strong> Showcase Event<br />
2018 Highlights<br />
bit.ly/MaRIUS-videos<br />
bit.ly/<strong>About</strong><strong>Drought</strong>Highlights<br />
Think Water: Storytelling for the<br />
future of Peterborough & the Fens<br />
<strong>Drought</strong> Myths #1 Britain is wet:<br />
<strong>Drought</strong>s don’t happen here<br />
bit.ly/DRY-videos<br />
bit.ly/<strong>About</strong><strong>Drought</strong>-videos<br />
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