We conduct research into the benefits that local parks provide, enabling us to take an evidence-led approach to protecting green spaces for good.
Green spaces are good and they do good. It's something that we all instinctively know. Fields in Trust have been in the vanguard of research to provide the evidence to back this up. Our insights and analysis allows us to move from discussion about the need for action to targeted intervention in the places it will have the greatest impact.
We conduct and commission original and innovative research at both micro- and macro-level.
The insights we obtain from analysing our research findings allows us to make targeted interventions where protection of green spaces can provide the highest benefit to the communities who use and love them.
We work alongside and with support from a variety of highly recognised and respected organisations across the data and GIS sectors to ensure our research and insight is robust.
We're delighted to welcome Aleks Berditchevskaia to our team as a voluntary advisor to support the development of our data and insight work. Aleks is the Principal Researcher at Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, where she leads the project delivery and research on AI-enabled collective intelligence.
She is the lead author of the report, 'The Future of Minds & Machines', on combining human and machine intelligence for problem solving. She also co-authored the 'Playbook for Collective Intelligence Design', a toolkit for creating projects that mobilise collective intelligence, which has been used to train over 370 staff as part of the UNDP's Accelerator Lab network.
Prior to Nesta, Aleks held a number of roles that explored the societal impact of emerging technologies. First at the Science Policy Centre in the Royal Society, contributing to their research on machine learning and then for a consultancy focussing on the use of digital participatory methods for European science policy and knowledge transfer. She holds a PhD in Neurotechnology from Imperial College London.
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