Professor Mark Reed
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Director, Natural Capital Challenge Centre, Professor of Rural Entrepreneurship at SRUC | Impact training @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social (he/him). Get my new book, The Researcher's Guide to Influencing Policy: tkqlhce.com/click-10125883…
(based on counterfactual-based impact evaluation methods for assessing the impact of conservation projects, but relevant to many types of projects seeking to evaluate their impact). Thanks to Society for Conservation Biology for developing this tool!
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
(based on counterfactual-based impact evaluation methods for assessing the impact of conservation projects, but relevant to many types of projects seeking to evaluate their impact). Thanks to Society for Conservation Biology for developing this tool!
3. Support locally led restoration, ensure fair benefit sharing, and build capacity for monitoring and adaptive management.
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Read the paper (PDF): www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1461...
Policy Options in Peatland Conservation and Restoration: A Review of the UNEP Global Peatlands Assessment and Future Strategy for Global Governance | Published in Mires and Peat
By Rosie Gearey, Mark S. Reed & 8 more. Article 32.25: Formulates three overarching recommendations to assist nations in improving effectiveness of their contributions within international and global ...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
3. Support locally led restoration, ensure fair benefit sharing, and build capacity for monitoring and adaptive management.
Read the paper (PDF): www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1461...
Read the paper (PDF): www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1461...
1. Align national laws and international commitments, clarify responsibilities across agencies, and strengthen reporting
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
October 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
1. Align national laws and international commitments, clarify responsibilities across agencies, and strengthen reporting
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
2. Prioritise long-term funding, de-risk private investment, and link payments to measured outcomes
Sustainability Science Best Paper Awards: link.springer.com/journal/1162...
Sustainability Science
Sustainability Science is a hybrid journal that probes interactions between global, social, and human systems, the complex mechanisms that lead to degradation ...
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October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sustainability Science Best Paper Awards: link.springer.com/journal/1162...
2024 paper: Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world - Sustainability Science
Language matters in shaping perceptions and guiding behaviour. The term stakeholder is widely used, yet little attention is paid to the possibility that its use may inadvertently perpetuate colonial n...
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October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
2024 paper: Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2023 paper: Re-thinking research impact: voice, context and power at the interface of science, policy and practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But what I learned from these colleagues as we wrote this paper has changed me as a person, and that means more than any best paper award.
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
But what I learned from these colleagues as we wrote this paper has changed me as a person, and that means more than any best paper award.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e.... Writing this paper was a 6-year journey from concept to completion, a time during which we all changed significantly as people, leading to our parting of ways, and I still have a long way to go until I catch them up.
Episode 3: Extreme coproduction
Podcast Episode · Fast Track Impact · 03/02/2022 · 32m
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October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e.... Writing this paper was a 6-year journey from concept to completion, a time during which we all changed significantly as people, leading to our parting of ways, and I still have a long way to go until I catch them up.
(to avoid white centring, they suggested I mothball the paper entirely). I discussed the journey that ultimately took me to publishing the paper (with a positionality statement in which I apologised for the epistemic racism of my PhD papers) in this podcast episode:
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
(to avoid white centring, they suggested I mothball the paper entirely). I discussed the journey that ultimately took me to publishing the paper (with a positionality statement in which I apologised for the epistemic racism of my PhD papers) in this podcast episode:
The dual-authored 2023 paper was also one of the most contraversial papers I've written. Although seemingly only written by me and Hannah, it was significantly shaped by 3 co-authors who withdrew and asked not to be named for fear that the paper was racist - and they were right
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The dual-authored 2023 paper was also one of the most contraversial papers I've written. Although seemingly only written by me and Hannah, it was significantly shaped by 3 co-authors who withdrew and asked not to be named for fear that the paper was racist - and they were right
This turned into a paper in which all the best insights came from my co-authors - all I had to do was create the space for everyone to do the thinking, and bring it all together into something resembling a coherent argument.
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This turned into a paper in which all the best insights came from my co-authors - all I had to do was create the space for everyone to do the thinking, and bring it all together into something resembling a coherent argument.
We literally workshopped the 2024 paper via an open invitation on social media. What started as a Twitter spat between me and Laurie Prange over a blog that I hastily re-wrote after she won me over to the "right side of history" (www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/why-we-....
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October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We literally workshopped the 2024 paper via an open invitation on social media. What started as a Twitter spat between me and Laurie Prange over a blog that I hastily re-wrote after she won me over to the "right side of history" (www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/why-we-....
My question: what would happen if you reconnected the impact agenda to your deepest sources of value, whether faith-based or secular?
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My question: what would happen if you reconnected the impact agenda to your deepest sources of value, whether faith-based or secular?
I'm not familiar with this framework myself but have used H3UNI materials widely in my own impact work and really like what they do luma.com/qe961ip7?mc_...
H3Uni Practitioners Forum #08: SCALE 3D – Seeing Impact in Three Dimensions with Tim Strasser · Zoom · Luma
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In this session you'll get a practical and experiential taste of the SCALE 3D model and how the way of seeing impact in terms of "deepening,…
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October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm not familiar with this framework myself but have used H3UNI materials widely in my own impact work and really like what they do luma.com/qe961ip7?mc_...