SUE Research Dialogues - Workshop

可持续城市环境方案现已进入第五年，由SUE1资助的15个财团进行了广泛的可持续性研究。现在有足够多的工作需要研究人员相互交流知识，通过对长期研究需求的前瞻性思考，围绕新主题和项目发展想法和研究团队，在可持续发展的学术研究中取得阶段性的进步。如果没有这样的战略思考，影响的巨大潜力将受到损害。事实上，随着大学科学研究计划的发展，建立研究社区变得越来越重要，即通过加强学术合作和知识交流来扩大和改善研究经验，从而避免在大学科学研究计划早期阶段可能不可避免的重复工作。这一需要不同于旨在实施可持续城市环境系统实施战略的SUE方案研究的知识转移活动，该方案正在通过创建ISSUES（可持续城市环境系统实施战略）得到促进。目前，在苏计划中，没有类似的设施来分享学术知识和增加苏以外的资助研究组合。部分由研究评估工作推动的标准传播战略正在导致普遍传播环境科学方案的成果。虽然这种传播仍然是必要的——我们应该影响我们自己学科领域的研究思想——但是由于缺乏一个面向SUE研究人员和产出的单一论坛，一个重要的机会正在丧失。事实上，这是一个独特的机会，可以在正确的时刻捕捉SUE1和最近获得奖励的SUE2项目的重要发现。此外，既然SUE2赠款已经发放，就必须提供一个论坛，以改善沟通和协作；本次投标旨在为提供上述机会开发必要的论坛，将SUE1和SUE2的研究人员以及互补研究和EPSRC提名的行业代表（在EPSRC的SUE利益相关者研讨会之后）聚集在一起。标准的传播战略正在导致社会科学方案成果的广泛传播。虽然这种传播仍然是必要的和有价值的，但是由于缺乏一个单一的论坛供SUE研究人员和产出使用，正在失去一个重要的机会。EPSRC将很快启动SUE3，预计将于2009年3月发布大纲提案。因此，现在有一个独特的机会，在正确的时刻，捕捉SUE1的重要发现（虽然结果仍然是新鲜的，研究人员正在寻求在这个坚实的基础上建立新的研究项目）和最近获得的SUE2项目。该投标旨在为提供上述机会开发必要的论坛，将SUE1和SUE2的调查人员和研究人员以及互补的研究和行业代表聚集在一起。该项目设想了三个学术对话/知识交流的机会：(1)第三个月-研讨会- SUE1的成熟成果与SUE2团队的新想法相结合，以产生战略思维和新颖的提案-该提案的重点（兰开斯特可能的地点）；(2)第15个月-研讨会- SUE1的成熟成果，SUE2正在进行的工作和第一次产出，满足sue3新团队的新想法-未来提案（伯明翰可能的地点）；(3)第25个月-国际会议-与研究界在之前或之后举行会议，继续讨论并确保未来的连续性建议（地点尚未确定，但其选择将确保适当关注可持续性问题，并为利益相关者参与和可能的实地考察提供当地支持）。

The Sustainable Urban Environments Programme is now in its fifth year and 15 consortia funded under SUE1 have undertaken a wide range of sustainability research. There now exists a sufficient body of work for it to be imperative that the researchers exchange knowledge between each other, to produce a step-change advancement in the academic research on sustainability by engaging in visionary thinking on long-term research needs and developing ideas and research teams around novel topics and projects. Without such strategic thinking the enormous potential for impact will be compromised. Indeed, as the SUE Programme develops it becomes increasingly important to build the research community, i.e., to broaden and improve the research experience through improved academic collaboration and knowledge exchange, thus avoiding the perhaps inevitable duplication of effort evident in the early stages of the SUE Programme. This need is distinct from the knowledge transfer activities that aim to implement the research from the SUE Programme, which is being facilitated by the creation of ISSUES (Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Environment Systems). Currently within the SUE Programme there is no similar facility for sharing academic knowledge and growing the portfolio of funded research beyond SUE. Standard dissemination strategies, partly driven by the Research Assessment Exercise, are leading to widespread dispersal of the results of the SUE Programme. While this dissemination remains necessary - we should be influencing the research thinking in our own discipline areas - a major opportunity is being lost by the lack of a single forum for SUE researchers and outputs. Indeed, this is a unique opportunity to capture, at exactly the right moment, the essential findings from SUE1 alongside the recently awarded SUE2 projects. Furthermore, now that SUE2 grants have been awarded, it is critical to provide a forum for improved communication and collaboration; this bid seeks to develop the necessary forum for providing the above opportunities, bringing together investigators and researchers from SUE1 and SUE2 as well as complementary research and EPSRC-nominated industry representatives (following EPSRC's SUE stakeholder workshop).Standard dissemination strategies are leading to widespread dispersal of the results of the SUE Programme. While this dissemination remains necessary and valuable, a major opportunity is being lost by the lack of a single forum for SUE researchers and outputs. EPSRC will shortly launch SUE3, with outline proposals expected by March 2009. Thus, there is now a unique opportunity to capture, at exactly the right moment, the essential findings from SUE1 (while the outcomes are still fresh and researchers are seeking to build new research programmes on this strong foundation) alongside the recently awarded SUE2 projects. This bid seeks to develop the necessary forum for providing the above opportunities, bringing together investigators and researchers from SUE1 and SUE2 as well as complementary research and industry representatives.This project envisages three opportunities for academic dialogue/knowledge exchange: (1) Month 3 - a Workshop - mature outputs from SUE1 meet new ideas from the SUE2 teams with a view to generating strategic thinking and novel proposals-the focus of this proposal (Lancaster possible venue); (2) Month 15 - Seminars - mature outputs from SUE1, and work underway in and first outputs from SUE2, meet new ideas from new teams from SUE3-future proposal (Birmingham possible venue); and (3) Month 25 - an International Conference - with a prior or subsequent meeting of the research community to continue the discussions and ensure continuity-future proposal (venue yet to be decided, but it will be selected to ensure a suitable focus on sustainability issues with local buy-in for stakeholder engagement and possible site visits).