Category: Supporting decision-making
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Futures of bumblebees around solar farms
This month’s blog post is written by Hollie Blaydes, a postdoctoral researcher at Lancaster University. She tells us more about her recent paper where she used poll4pop to investigate how solar farms might support bumblebees in the future. Opening my desktop, I am met with a smattering of shapes strewn across a map of Great…
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Travelling to Tokyo
This month’s blog post is written by Ellen Knight, who’s in the final year of her PhD researching bees in agroforestry systems using both field surveys and poll4pop modelling. In October 2025, I was very lucky to travel to Japan to present some of my PhD work at the ‘International Society for Ecological Modelling’ global…
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Poll4pop in Parliament!
On 25th November 2025, researchers Mike Image, Emma Gardner, Claire Carvell (all from UKCEH) and Tom Breeze (University of Reading) brought cutting‑edge pollinator science to the heart of UK policymaking. The team took part in a special session of the All‑Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Bees, Pollinators and Invertebrates, held at the House of Lords…
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