EPA Research Impact Case Study: WaterMARKE

Year: 2026

EPA Research 2030 is designed to be agile, responsive, and flexible, and aims to deliver timely and impactful research to support policy and decision making, and to address knowledge gaps in existing and emerging environmental pressures. The EPA Research Impact Case Studies provide examples and insights from EPA-funded projects and the impact they have achieved.

EPA Research Impact Case Study: Building Capability

Year: 2026

EPA Research 2030 is designed to be agile, responsive, and flexible, and aims to deliver timely and impactful research to support policy and decision making, and to address knowledge gaps in existing and emerging environmental pressures. The EPA Research Impact Case Studies provide examples and insights from EPA-funded projects and the impact they have achieved.

EPA Research Impact Case Study: A roadmap for Ireland’s first Bioeconomy Action Plan

Year: 2025

EPA Research 2030 is designed to be agile, responsive, and flexible, and aims to deliver timely and impactful research to support policy and decision making, and to address knowledge gaps in existing and emerging environmental pressures. The EPA Research Impact Case Studies provide examples and insights from EPA-funded projects and the impact they have achieved.

Evidence-to-Policy Impact Case Study: the EPA-funded SAPPHIRE project

Year: 2023

EPA Research 2030 is designed to be agile, responsive, and flexible, and aims to deliver timely and impactful research to support policy and decision making, and to address knowledge gaps in existing and emerging environmental pressures. The EPA Research Impact Case Studies provide examples and insights from EPA-funded projects and the impact they have achieved.

EPA Research Project Communication

Year: 2021

This is a guide for EPA Research Project communications

Guidelines for EPA-Funded Research Project Twitter Accounts

Year: 2021

Guidelines for EPA-Funded Research Project Twitter Accounts

Research 284b: Knowledge Transfer Guidelines and Recommendations for Irish Funding Agencies

Authors: M. Keegan Porter, Cliona Ní Cheallacháin, Georgia Bayliss-Brown and David Murphy, July 2019

Year: 2019

Knowledge Transfer Guidelines and Recommendations for Irish Funding Agencies: How to Embed Knowledge Transfer Principles into Irish Funding Programmes to Help Maximise Measurable Impacts from Public Investments

Research 284a: Research to Policy Impact through Effective Knowledge Transfer

Authors: M. Keegan Porter, Cliona Ní Cheallacháin, Georgia Bayliss-Brown and David Murphy, July 2019

Year: 2019

The Environmental Protection Agency has funded research projects that have increased national understanding of our environment; the challenges it faces; and how Ireland can move towards a more resource-efficient and environmentally friendly economy. However, despite efforts to improve the communication of project findings, translating research into measurable impact remains a challenge for the scientific community.

Research 215: Going Green Digitally? Environmental Crisis, Consumption Patterns and the Evolving Role of Media

Author: Trish Morgan, April 2017

Year: 2017

Research Report 215 on Going Green Digitally? Environmental Crisis, Consumption Patterns and the Evolving Role of Media

Research 192: Connecting Data and Environmental Research at the Environmental Protection Agency

Author: Peter Mooney, October 2016

Year: 2016

Research 192 Connecting Data and Environmental Research at the Environmental Protection Agency

Research 167 - Guidelines for Effective Risk Communication

To Accompany EPA Research Report 167, March 2016

Year: 2016

The accompanying guidelines to Research 167 which examines the elements required for the preparation, implementation and monitoring of engagement strategy.

Research 167 - EPA RESOURCE KIT: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policy

Relay Risk: Examining the Communication of Environmental Risk through a Case Study of Domestic Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Republic of Ireland, March 2016

Year: 2016

The report examines the elements required for the preparation, implementation, and monitoring of an engagement strategy aimed at communicating risk-based environmental regulation of domestic wastewater treatment systems to owners of such systems. The report is aimed at regulators, national and local authorities, and policy makers, particularly those involved in environmental risk communication, management and assessment

Research 133 - Bridging the gap between science and policy

Year: 2013

Knowledge Transfer Guide for Researchers

Research 131: Bridging the gap between science and policy

Year: 2013

Bridging the gap between science and policy

Research 132 - Bridging the gap between science and policy

Year: 2013

BRIDGE: Good Practice Guide for science-policy communication