HEAT@UWE: Bridging the Gaps in Health, Environment And Technology (HEAT) Research

HEAT@UWE：弥合健康、环境和技术 (HEAT) 研究方面的差距

• 批准号: EP/H000380/1
• 负责人: Katie Williams
• 金额: $ 61.23万
• 依托单位: University of the West of England
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FH000380%2F1
• 关键词: HEAT; UWE; Bridging; Gaps; Health

HEAT@UWE is a phased programme of activities designed to facilitate an interdisciplinary research culture across three areas of research strength at UWE: Health, Environment and Technology. Research in these fields is carried out in the Bristol Institute of Technology (BIT) and the newly formed Institute for Sustainability, Health and the Environment (ISHE). HEAT@UWE seeks to bring researchers from these two multi-disciplinary Institutes together to deliver research with significant economic, environmental and social benefit. The aim is to capitalise on UWE's tradition of applied research and its position of research strength (evidenced in our RAE 2008 results and our position as the most successful post-92 University in terms of RCUK funding). HEAT@UWE has grown out of the recognition that human health and the environment currently have an unprecedented position on national and international political agendas. Environmental issues such as climate change, unsustainable resource use, poor built environments and transport systems as well as public health issues such as obesity, mental illness, and chronic disease are some of the most intractable challenges of our time. Significantly, the role that technology can play in addressing these problems is now being recognised. It can intervene between health and environmental systems (through, for example new sensing technologies, complexity science applications, computation artefacts in real environments or systems to reduce carbon footprints) or it can be used as a means of understanding relationships between health and the environment (for example, through visualisation models or simulations). Whilst the inter-related nature of these issues is largely accepted, research cultures and practices still tend to be discipline-focused and fragmented. Multi- and inter-disciplinary research in these areas is relatively immature, and significant barriers, such as methodological differences, are having an impact on our ability to make meaningful breakthroughs in these critical policy areas.HEAT@UWE is a 3-year programme of activities that uses best practice in collaborative working in academic settings to build on, and sustain, a multi-disciplinary research culture at UWE, and with its stakeholders. The activities have been planned carefully to maximise opportunities for meaningful outcomes from a large and diverse group of researchers. Initially, there is a familiarisation phase to let researchers know what their colleagues do. This includes a large Visions Conference to scope early collaborative opportunities (2 more are held annually), and the development of a number of on-line collaboration tools, such as a directory of researchers and a web-lounge. Then there is a phase of activities designed to support emerging collaborations, through activities including discipline-hopping secondments and exchanges, visits, a multi-disciplinary seminar series and learning laboratories. The Programme then moves to a phase of formalising collaborations and producing outputs, via activities such as retreat days, and a competition for start-up funding. These activities are designed to help researchers from different backgrounds work together and produce meaningful partnerships which can be taken forward.Ultimately the aim of HEAT@UWE is to embed and sustain a multi-disciplinary research culture, to enable us to become a national centre for HEAT research, with an international reputation for excellence. We envisage the Programme will produce new knowledge, products and applications that will benefit society.

HEAT@UWE是一个分阶段的活动计划，旨在促进UWE三个研究领域的跨学科研究文化：健康，环境和技术。布里斯托理工学院和新成立的可持续发展、健康和环境研究所开展了这些领域的研究。HEAT@UWE旨在将这两个多学科研究所的研究人员聚集在一起，以提供具有重大经济，环境和社会效益的研究。我们的目标是利用UWE的应用研究的传统和研究实力的地位（证明在我们的RAE 2008年的结果和我们作为最成功的92后大学在RCUK资金方面的地位）。HEAT@UWE的发展源于这样一种认识，即人类健康和环境目前在国家和国际政治议程上具有前所未有的地位。环境问题，如气候变化，不可持续的资源使用，不良的建筑环境和运输系统，以及公共卫生问题，如肥胖，精神疾病和慢性病是我们这个时代最棘手的挑战。值得注意的是，技术在解决这些问题方面可以发挥的作用现在正在得到承认。它可以介入健康和环境系统之间（例如，通过新的传感技术，复杂性科学应用，真实的环境或系统中的计算人工制品以减少碳足迹），或者它可以用作理解健康和环境之间关系的手段（例如，通过可视化模型或模拟）。虽然这些问题的相互关联性在很大程度上被接受，但研究文化和实践仍然倾向于以学科为中心和分散。这些领域的多学科和跨学科研究相对不成熟，方法论差异等重大障碍正在影响我们在这些关键政策领域取得有意义突破的能力。HEAT@UWE是一个为期3年的活动计划，利用学术环境中协作工作的最佳实践来建立和维持UWE的多学科研究文化，和利益相关者。这些活动都经过精心策划，以最大限度地提高机会，从一个庞大而多样化的研究人员群体的有意义的成果。最初，有一个熟悉阶段，让研究人员知道他们的同事做什么。这包括一个大型的远景会议，以确定早期合作机会的范围（每年再举行两次），以及开发一些在线合作工具，如研究人员名录和网络休息室。然后是一个旨在支持新兴合作的活动阶段，通过跨学科借调和交流，访问，多学科研讨会系列和学习实验室等活动。然后，该方案进入正式合作和产生产出的阶段，通过务虚会等活动和启动资金的竞争。这些活动旨在帮助来自不同背景的研究人员一起工作，并产生有意义的伙伴关系，可以向前推进。最终，HEAT@UWE的目标是嵌入和维持多学科的研究文化，使我们能够成为一个国家中心的热研究，具有卓越的国际声誉。我们预期该计划将产生新的知识、产品和应用，造福社会。

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