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Decision-grade data on nature
Nature tech is emergent, but with it, improvements and impairments to nature can be measured with an integrity that can be trusted. Local communities of people, many of them resource-constrained, can steward nature together with inexpensive nature tech. With it, they have the capability to (digitally) measure, report…
What a year…
This year in January, I became Co-Director of the Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre and Reader at SRUC, and blogged previously about that. 2022 has been an extremely busy and exciting time. I have now been Principle Investigator on 11 projects, successfully receiving almost £600k grants, including an…
Co-directing for Thriving Natural Capital
In January 2022, I became the Co-director of The Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre at SRUC. Our goal is to research and build ecosystem markets to meet net-zero targets and reverse the biodiversity decline. We support thriving rural communities through regenerative agriculture and conservation. Natural capital can be…
Bioregioning Tayside – new podcast
Hannah finds out about bioregioning in a new podcast, and discover how it helps us to see the unique places where we live and work with new eyes, helping us reconnect to and restore the ecological systems of which we are a part and upon which we all…
Digital MRV at Bunloit
Highlands Rewilding has trialled the use of various digital devices to collect trustable data about carbon sequestration, biodiversity and nature improvements. Hannah visited and made a film for the Farm Advisory Service about Highlands Rewilding’s Bunloit estate’s measurement of natural capital baselines, and the practicalities of doing it…
COP26 videos & podcast
Scottish National Investment Bank Chair Willie Watt was interviewed by me at COP26 as part of the Finance for Nature conference. We discussed the public investment bank’s approach to nature – and climate-based investments as well as decision grade data. Willie Watt is the Chair of the Scottish National Investment…
The first £billion is the hardest: Scotland’s challenge for natural capital
Hannah is supporting the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers network in developing new natural capital investment projects that can deliver returns for investors, whether they are private businesses, public agencies or communities. As the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) continues this week, a new report by the Green Finance Institute…
SRUCBytes & Science Festival event launched
When is a farm not a farm? I’m excited to Chair this Edinburgh International Science Festival event, this year online and free! Could a complex digital information system made of hardware and software be the answer to sustainable farming? Join Dominic Gammon of The Aquaponics Garden and Gordy Wills…
BLING & Parliamentary Showcase
There’s no shortage of acronyms in academia – its RIDDLED (not an acronym, just capitalised for emphasis) with them! I was thrilled to chair the BLING conference – the mid term of the EU Interreg North Sea Region project on Blockchain in Government, where we discussed use cases…
DLT Course for Everyone
When I worked with SRUC, I developed a course that anyone can take as a learning journey, on Distributed Ledger Technology in the Natural Economy Sector.
Best Research Paper 2020, ISC2021 & Agrimetrics
Impact in academia is deemed by the UKRI as a “demonstrable contribution that excellent social and economic research makes in shifting understanding and advancing scientific method, theory and application across and within disciplines.” Using participatory action research (PAR) is a method for achieving impact whilst research and development…
This is Huge… This is BIG
When you write an article for a peer-reviewed academic article, the feedback and evidence of impact you expect is a citation in another journal article in the future. So I was pleasantly surprised to get positive social media feedback on LinkedIn immediately for Piece of Cake: Assuring Specific…
SRUC Senior Challenge Research Fellowship
Dr Hannah Rudman has just joined SRUC. She is Senior Challenge Research Fellow & Data Policy Lead. Hannah’s digital and data innovation applied research and development work is grounded in interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research, which is practice-led rather than practice-based, and typically helps to create actionable knowledge with participants. Its about…
Reality DLT: 2019
I review 2019 – a year in which Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) proved they could enable real and measurable citizen and business value. The Oil and Gas sector (O&G) ranks last of all industries in digital maturity (Deloitte’s study also noted that the industry loses $1.6 trillion in revenue by “failing to fully embrace digital”). However, a study conducted by the World Economic…
Massive Transformational Purpose?
Dr Hannah Rudman considers why championing distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in manufacturing and resources and public sectors is also a Massive Transformational Purpose (MTP). When I was at secondary school in 1989, Sir Tim Berners Lee wrote his paper proposing a World Wide Web of connected computers, which…
A year in DLT
2018: a year in which Distributed Ledger Technology has moved into the mainstream, with public sector projects building trust and transparency into citizen services, and private sector projects reducing timescales for tracking and tracing products from a week to just 2.2 seconds. 2018 was a year of maturation…
DLT in Public Services
Th report for Scottish Government, Distributed Ledger Technologies in Public Services that Hannah Rudman co-authored is based on a study of international best practice, including interviews with technology experts and local public sector agencies, and learnings from worldwide public sector implementations. Digital life relies on the exchange of information.…
DLT – the next big DT
Distributed Ledger Technologies – the next big Digital Transformation? (This article was originally published on 26.02.18 by DIGIT.FYI) Even in this age of digital transformation (DT), protecting assets across organisational boundaries, establishing and verifying identities, chronicling events, and guiding interactions between individuals, communities, organisations and nations, usually happens…
Associate Directorship with BOP Consulting
Hannah Rudman has joined BOP Consulting as an Associate Director, to lead the development of their new Organisational Transformation services and practice. BOP is an international consultancy with a 20-year track record of working in the cultural and creative economy with government bodies, leading arts and cultural organisations, property developers,…
Paper published in Educational Action Research
As Honorary Fellow at Durham University, our multidisciplinary academic team is running a research and development project with a Science Centre in Newcastle, the International Centre for Life. We are investigating whether engagement with science improves when innovation and creativity is at the heart of science education. In order to…