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Schools: Continue to drive up academic standards so that children and young people in every part of the country are 11 prepared with the knowledge, skills and qualifications they need. What does evidence from the natural and cognitive sciences suggest about how schools might influence pupil motivation, behaviour, and learning? How can this be translated into teaching practices that reliably improve pupil attainment? Department for Education, 2024
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Improve transport for the user Which new technologies and approaches can be applied to improve transport systems resilience to disruption from natural hazards? Department for Transport, 2023
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks The risk of an unknown pandemic human disease (“disease x) has been at the top of the National Risk Register for some time and been realised this year in the shape of COVID-19. Two thirds of new human infectious diseases originate in animals. How can we better understand and prepare for future threats? How can we better join up animal and human health research, capability, and digital backbone across government to facilitate agile responses? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks How can we use digital innovation and precision farming techniques to measure animal health and welfare outcomes for livestock, and to provide early warning of livestock disease and health threats? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks How can we better understand and prevent the development of antimicrobial and anthelmintic resistance? How can we develop better diagnostic tests to encourage more judicious use of antimicrobials and anthelmintics? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks Endemic animal diseases undermine agricultural productivity, negatively impacting animal welfare, farmers’ livelihoods, public health, and threaten trade. Increased research into improved methods of detection and control of bovine TB and other such endemic diseases remains a priority for Defra Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks How can we enable better biosecurity standards and behaviours to control and minimise the impact of disease and pests? how can we build systems that are resilient to introductions of pests and diseases and that can support adaptation and recovery? How can we breed animals and plants which are resistant to key diseases? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Biosecurity: protecting animals and plants from health risks How can we develop and apply science, technology, and evidence to inform and deliver a risk-based approach to animal and plant biosecurity? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Environmental monitoring and data science Molecular biology: The ongoing evolution in the costs, speed, and ease of DNA measurements will allow entirely new approaches to complement traditional biodiversity monitoring and increase understanding of ecosystems, biodiversity, diseases, and other aspects of the environment Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Systems and futures Development of models to support decision making on complex and wicked problems (for example on land use, environmental trade-offs, food systems) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Systems and futures Development of systems approaches that can be used to inform policymaking. This includes approaches to provide insights into complex systems, identify points of intervention, account for multiple perspectives, and frame policy decisions Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health” How can we model existing data from human, animal, plant, and environmental health indicators to better understand the interconnection and potential impacts of climate change? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health” What is needed to further understand the value of plants and the wider environment to society, and how is this relationship eroded by pests and disease? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health” How does exposure to biodiverse environments link to human microbiome diversity and shape health outcomes? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health” How can we design and embed robust, cross-cutting indicators of, and improve our understanding of, human, animal, plant, and environmental health in systems under pressure from climate change? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the impacts of greenhouse gas removals and negative emission technologies on climate and the environment? What are the trade-offs of negative emissions techniques and other interventions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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