Approved work: Prison populations
This POSTnote will outline current figures on prison populations, implications of an increasing UK prison population and prisoners’ welfare and safety.
Approved work: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies
This POSTbrief will be a technical explainer introducing AI technologies. It will explain the main types of AI, give examples of their current and potential future applications, and provide a glossary of common terminology.
Approved work: Carbon offsetting and carbon payback
This POSTnote will summarise the challenges that have emerged around setting standards for international offsetting and what monitoring is needed to ensure effective mitigation.
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Future research
Approved work: Freshwater, floodplain and wetland restoration.
This POSTnote will summarise the evidence base for restoration measures for different freshwater habitat types (complimenting the recent POSTnote and POSTbrief on habitat restoration) and the outcomes for biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits such as natural flood management and water quality.
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Future research
Approved work: The impacts and costs of synthetic fertilisers
This POSTnote will summarise the challenges and opportunities for the different approaches for reducing the use of synthetic fertilisers.
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Future research
Approved work: Demand side response
This POSTnote will consider developments in demand-side response, evidence of its potential contribution to decarbonisation of the power system, and the policy or market mechanisms needed to fully realise the opportunities DSR presents.
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Future research
Approved work: Psychedelic drugs and mental health
This note will outline the latest knowledge about the role for psychedelic drugs to treat a wide range of mental health disorders and the recent data on risks and benefits.
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Future research
Approved work: Consumer debt and mental health
This briefing will outline current trends in consumer debt and evidence for how financial and mental well-being implicate each other.
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Future research
Approved work: Just sustainable transitions
This POSTnote will summarise and define environmental justice with respect to different sustainability transitions and consider how and why these issues should be addressed.
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Future research
Approved work: Biodiversity net gain
This POSTnote will summarise the implementation challenges including the latest version of the net gain metric consulted and update the three existing publications on this topic (the latest of which was the net gain POSTbrief in 2019).
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Future research
Approved work: The future of horticulture
This POSTnote will provide an overview of the horticultural innovations and technologies that are under development globally, the future challenges and constraints of implementing these in a UK context, and measures to increase resilience against growing pressures such as climate change.
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Fellowship
Institute of Food Science and Technology Fellowship 2023-2024
Applications closed 10th May 2023.
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Future research
Approved work: Indoor Air Quality
This briefing will identify contributors to improved and compromised indoor air quality, and subsequent effects on health.
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