Field advisors play a key role in enhancing the skills and development of tens of thousands of farming and land management businesses, now a key imperative for government and industry. However, advisors themselves face complex and ever changing calls on their expertise and must keep their knowledge up to date. At the same time, research funders are heavily investing in major research programmes into land use challenges, including food security and mitigation of and adaptation to environmental change, but they lack effective means and models for research delivery and processes of knowledge transfer and exchange. Through a series of knowledge exchange activities the Follow-on project will build a learning network between researchers and land-based professionals. The project will draw upon research findings from the ESRC funded 'Science in the Field' research project. Science in the Field considered three groups of specialist advisors - veterinarians, applied ecologists and land agents/surveyors - and their role as knowledge brokers between scientific research and land management. The research has shown how advisory services are facing a number of key problems: (i) The advisory landscape is now characterised by a fragmented system of field advisers which poses problems of coordination and interprofessional working; (ii) There has been a move away from state sponsored agricultural extension, but there remains a lack of a coherent model of knowledge transfer, particularly to inform the professional training and renewal of field advisers; (iii) Research agendas have become disconnected from technical dissemination capacities, and vice versa. There is a lack of institutional linkage between research and professional development. The Follow-on Project will aim to address these problems by enhancing the knowledge development and inter-professional learning of field advisors. More specifically, it will: 1. Learn from experiences of inter-professional working to identify the implications for training and professional development and the demand and scope for long term networks for knowledge exchange; 2. Identify opportunities for enhancing the knowledge renewal of advisers and test the prospects for giving greater recognition to on-the-job learning within formal training provision; 3. Highlight ways to improve knowledge exchange between the professions and research community, including systems of professional training and research decision making. The project will involve a range of knowledge exchange activities, including learning workshops, an e-learning forum, testing of CPD materials and extensive dissemination of the implications of the project through publication of a Policy and Practice Note. It will closely involve, and be advised throughout, by stakeholders and field advisers from across the professions who have expressed strong support for the project. Outcomes of the work will be improved linkages between the land-based professions and academic research communities and identification of effective approaches and techniques for knowledge exchange. Through improvements to advisor learning and training the project will lead to enhanced advice to farming and land management businesses.