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Deryck Irving

Sep 22, 2026

1:57
That shows I've learned that only by reading it.
1:59
My involvement comes 60% of my working week.
2:02
I work for a program called the Hydrogenation Chair based here at Stirling, which is working with Scottish Water as our major water utility in Scotland on their net zero agenda.
2:12
And I was brought in to work on place-based innovation, which has a small technological component.
2:19
but actually as largely as you've already outlined in the introduction about partnership, about collaboration, about ways of working, about cross-cutting messages.
2:27
And that's been the primary focus of my work across the last four and a half years.
2:31
Prior to that, I worked in the third sector in community-based place work, but with a lot of policy links as well.

14 MINS LATER

16:31
From the perspective of your work on this project, what do you see as the potential for the work reaching maturity and becoming fully embedded? What could change as a result and what the size of the prize is? And that is really about the Force 2O project.

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