Thread by @RachelCoxcoon

Since late 2020, I regularly have my own work presented to me as someone else's, as the 'Onion Diagram' on pg 5 of @theCCCuk 's local authority guide is a minimally amended version of a bigger tool I developed while at the Centre for Sustainable Energy. A🧵

The original comes from work we did to support Local Authorities responding to the #ClimateEmergency. But the original tool also contains an approach to actionplanning that uses these 'levers of influence' in the onion diagram, linking the levers the changes that we need to make.

We alerted @theCCCuk to the mis-attribution in the report on the day their report was published (the non existent Centre for Sustainability is named). But they responded that they had a policy of not changing anything in reports after publication.

While I'm happy that the work is out there, this bothers me for 2 reasons. Firstly, neither me or my colleague Simon Roberts, with whom I worked on this, are credited. This means I have had people accuse me of plagiarising the CCCs work when using the original.

Second, correct attribution would lead people to the full tool that we had originally come up with, which contains other helpful things that Councils might choose to use. It's not perfect, but it's useful. You can find it here: cse.org.uk/news/view/2541

Fundamentally, I just think it's wrong not to credit people with the work they have done. In academia, this would be a cardinal sin and a correction would have been issued to show the work being 'Coxcoon & Roberts, Centre for Sustainable Energy, 2020', or something similar.

I still use this tool in the work I do now with local authorities. Video here for any council officer/councillor who is looking for some inspiration on how to structure a holistic #ClimateEmergency action plan:

End of Moan.

UPDATE 16/2/23

Well that was sorted quickly! Wish I had moaned more about it in 2020! Thank you
@ChiefExecCCC
for the call this morning and for getting this sorted in the midst of other far more important tasks!