Ceres Research
Organisation type:
Consultancy
Contact name:
Dannielle Robb
Position/ Role:
Research and Knowledge Exchange
email:
Grants interested in applying for:
Lowland Peat Water Discovery Grant, Lowland Peat Water Implementation Grant, Paludiculture and Wetter Farming Fund
Region:
National/cross-region
Areas of expertise
Farmer engagement/ knowledge exchange, Market innovation/ product development/ supply chain, Policy/ regulation/ advisory services, Scientific research (ecology, soils, modelling, remote sensing, biogeochemistry)
Resources available
Facilities for meetings/ demonstrations, Staff time/ research capacity, Trial land available
Engagement interests
Ceres Research, in partnership with Ceres Rural. operates independently and is trusted by farmers and land managers, which supports engagement in sensitive areas such as land use change, water management and productivity trade-offs. We are particularly interested in discovery projects that help build the evidence base needed to support future investment, policy alignment and scalable delivery models.
Ceres Research could contribute in several ways:
- Project design and scoping: Helping define research questions, monitoring approaches and evidence gaps around lowland peat, hydrology and land use change.
- On-farm trials and monitoring: Coordinating and supporting discovery-scale trials on commercial farms, including data capture on soils, water, cropping systems and management change.
- Data analysis and interpretation: Turning monitoring data into insights that inform both future Water Discovery bids and longer-term landscape-scale strategies.
- Farmer engagement and knowledge exchange: Ensuring participating farmers are actively involved, understand the purpose and value of discovery activities, and that learning is shared widely.
- Evidence translation: Producing clear outputs for Defra, delivery partners and future project developers, helping de-risk subsequent capital or landscape-scale interventions.
We are interested in partnering with organisations that bring complementary expertise, including:
- Landowners and farmers managing lowland peat soils.
- Environmental NGOs and delivery bodies with peatland and freshwater expertise.
- Water companies and catchment partnerships interested in evidence-led interventions.
- Technical specialists (hydrology, ecology, carbon, paludiculture systems).
- Technology providers offering monitoring, sensing or decision-support tools.
We value practical, collaborative consortia that are open to learning, data sharing and adaptive project development.
Additional information
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We regularly publish member and public-facing articles, case studies and technical summaries translating research findings and trial data into practical insight for farmers, advisers and policymakers. These include evidence reviews, trial reports and decision-support outputs linked to soils, water quality and resilient farming systems.
We can offer project design, monitoring frameworks, data analysis and knowledge exchange capability, rather than fixed infrastructure. Trials are typically hosted on commercial farm sites within our farmer and cluster networks, including environments suitable for discovery-scale testing on lowland soils.
We regularly coordinate and support on-farm demonstrations, farmer discussion groups, workshops and site visits, ensuring learning from discovery projects is shared effectively with land managers, delivery partners and wider stakeholders.