{"id":1083,"date":"2019-04-11T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:32:30","slug":"knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-gloucestershire-wildlife-trust-shortlisted-for-prestigious-ktp-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-gloucestershire-wildlife-trust-shortlisted-for-prestigious-ktp-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust shortlisted for prestigious KTP award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between UWE Bristol \u2018s Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust<\/a> (GWT) has been shortlisted for Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership Award at the KTP Best of the Best Awards 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KTP aimed to formalise GWT\u2019s role in advising Local Authorities and companies on the impact of development on nature conservation.
The project established a new Benchmark for green infrastructure (GI) offering consistent technical information on key features, and a quality rating to incentivise and reward developers for high quality GI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KTP Associate Dr Gemma Jerome, supported by Dr Danni Sinnett, Associate Professor in Green Infrastructure, collated evidence and expertise from researchers, planners, developers, built environment and nature conservation to create standards, technical guidance, implementation framework and award criteria. The \u201cBuilding with Nature\u201d (BwN) benchmark was piloted with frontrunner developments, including Gloucester Motorway Services and housing schemes, and with Local Authority policies, and launched in November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KTP has had a transformational impact on GWT. It has triggered a complete turnaround in its approach to the built environment and the quality of its engagement with planners and developers. The Trust has morphed from being largely reactive to proactively engaging with the development community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, BwN has been used in developments in Scotland, Cornwall, Devon, London and Hampshire, far beyond GWT\u2019s own geographical area and the new BwN subsidiary company is currently working with 6 local authorities to develop GI planning policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new national benchmark is now set to be the go-to framework for measuring the quality of natural environment planning in the UK. The success of the project is down to the partnership teamwork; with company partner, University, and associate negotiating together the challenges inherent in creating a product to be attractive to a highly competitive and commercially-focused market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only two other KTPs have been shortlisted for the Best KTP Partnership award. The awards will be announced on 2 May in London. Good luck to all involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find the full list of nominations here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KTP is a government support scheme helping businesses grow through academic research specific to their needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 3-way partnership between a company, university and Associate enables collaboration on a strategically important project help improve competitiveness, productivity and performance.
For more information on KTP\u2019s please see here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KTP aimed to formalise GWT\u2019s role in advising Local Authorities and companies on the impact of development on nature conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\npartnership received financial support from the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships\nprogramme (KTP).  KTP aims to help businesses to improve their\ncompetitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge,\ntechnology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base.  This\nsuccessful Knowledge Transfer Partnership project, funded by UK Research and\nInnovation through Innovate UK, is part of the government\u2019s Industrial\nStrategy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between UWE Bristol \u2018s Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) has been shortlisted for Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership Award at the KTP Best of the Best Awards 2019. The KTP aimed to formalise GWT\u2019s role in advising Local Authorities and companies on the impact of … Continue reading “Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust shortlisted for prestigious KTP award”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":145,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,1450,145,1452,127],"tags":[168,167,164,166,163,151,796,46,165,1449,62,74,75,420],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-transfer-partnership","category-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","category-ktp","category-ktps","category-research-business-innovation","tag-centre-for-sustainable-planning-and-environments","tag-gi","tag-gloucestershire-wildlife-trust","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-gwt","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnership","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","tag-ktp","tag-ktp-award","tag-ktps","tag-research","tag-uwe","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-ktp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}