Creativity Greenhouse: Balance Network, Exploring Work-Life Balance in the Digital Economy

平衡网络将提供一个新的跨学科研究社区，探索数字经济中的工作与生活平衡（WLB）。它将培养新的联系，并促进在可持续社会主题下资助的项目研究基地内外的交流：在依赖数字的世界中实现工作与生活的平衡。通过一系列虚拟和面对面的互动，该网络将支持新的、协作的、多学科的研究提案，这些提案将发展成为虚拟的英才中心。除了支持资助的项目外，该网络还旨在为未来三年不同社区之间的互动创造机会。它旨在提供资源和开展活动，以形成足够数量的专门知识，从而确保为该网络在2016年之后的延续奠定坚实的基础。平衡网络将作为一个跨学科的实践社区运作，不仅支持核心网络成员，而且还吸引更广泛的网络成员。该网络的开放性将提供机会，分享研究成果，并与各种个人和组织，包括政府，舆论导向者和政策制定者，公众，公共和私营部门组织进行接触。该网络将：- 支持跨资助研究项目的沟通和合作-培养多学科团队的研究社区，以进一步探索DE WLB产生的想法-讨论未来的资助机会，形成合作投标，并为成员之间的同行评审提供论坛。- 促进网络参与者与公众、工商界和学术界等更广泛受众之间的讨论和知识交流。 - 汇编并向更广泛的学术界和其他社区传播WLB在DE项目和相关活动中的活动和调查结果，包括。在整个研究委员会中促进数字经济主题下的工作-为项目提供一个连贯的“家”，并从英国和国际的角度充当德国WLB主题的单一沟通点。旨在通过将网络扩大到其他国家和国际团体来达到临界质量，以便在EPSRC支持之外提供自给自足

The Balance Network will provide a new, interdisciplinary research community to explore Work-Life Balance in the Digital Economy (WLB in DE). It will cultivate new linkages and promote exchanges within and beyond the research base of projects funded under the theme of Sustainable Society: Achieving work-life balance in a digitally dependent world. Through a range of virtual and face-to-face interactions the network will support new, collaborative, multidisciplinary research proposals that develop into virtual centres of excellence. As well as supporting funded projects the network aims to create opportunities for interaction between diverse communities over the next 3 years. It aims to provide resources and activities to bring about a critical mass of expertise thus ensuring a strong foundation for the continuation of the network beyond 2016. The Balance Network will operate as an interdisciplinary community of practice to not only support to core network membership but also engage the wider network membership. The open nature of the network will provide opportunities to share research and engage with a wide variety of individuals and organisations including government, opinion-formers and policy makers, the general public, public and private sector organisations. The network will: - Support communication and collaboration across the funded research projects - Foster a research community of multi-disciplinary teams to further explore the ideas generated on WLB in DE - Discuss future funding opportunities, form collaborative bids and provide a forum for peer review between members. - Facilitate discussion and the exchange of knowledge between network participants and wider audiences including the public, business and industrial as well as academics. - Compile and disseminate activities and findings of WLB in DE projects and related activities to the wider academic and other communities, including. promotion of work under the Digital Economy Theme across the Research Councils - Provide a coherent 'home' for the projects and to act as a single point of communication for theme of WLB in DE, from a UK and International perspective.Aim to achieve a critical mass by widening the network to other national and international groups in order to provide self-sufficiency beyond EPSRC support