STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre

ESRC STEPS中心将把研究与探索可持续发展变革途径的行动联系起来。该中心是新兴的STEPS全球联盟的一部分，该联盟在五大洲设有六个中心。能源/气候、粮食/农业、保健/疾病、水/卫生和城市发展方面的工作将通过附属项目继续进行。STEPS中心的概念和方法观点--“路径方法”将继续得到扩展，并将为讨论什么对跨领域的可持续性转型有效提供一个焦点。中心的过渡资金将集中在一系列核心平台功能上，包括召集/辩论（通过关于全球可持续性挑战的年度系列活动，包括概念、方法和实际政策问题），建立联系/伙伴关系（通过继续发展全球联合会），影响/参与（通过将研究和活动与政策和行动联系起来，特别是通过在世界各地致力于可持续性变革的研究人员和社会运动/活动家之间建立联系），和能力建设（通过在年度暑期学校培训早期职业可持续性专业人员，以及在一系列研究、沟通、影响和参与职能方面为全球联盟提供指导和支持）。以及与艺术和设计的新联系。四年后，中心作为知识交流和政策影响中心的全球地位，特别是围绕可持续发展目标，将随着其长期的机构和财务可持续性而沿着增长。

The ESRC STEPS Centre will link research with action in the exploration of transformative pathways to sustainability. The Centre is part of an emerging STEPS Global Consortium with six hubs across five continents. Work on energy/climate, food/agriculture, health/disease, water/sanitation and urban development will continue through affiliated projects. The STEPS Centre's conceptual and methodological perspective - the 'pathways approach' will continue to be extended, and will provide a focus for debate about what works for sustainability transformations across domains.The transition funding for the Centre will focus on a series of core platform functions, including convening/debating (through an annual event series on global sustainability challenges, including conceptual, methodological and practical policy questions), networking/partnerships (through the continued development of the Global Consortium), influencing/engaging (through linking research and events to policy and action, especially through building links between researchers and social movements/activists working on sustainability transformations across the world), and capacity building (through the training of early career sustainability professionals at the annual Summer School, as well as mentoring and support across the Global Consortium in a range of research, communications, impact and engagement functions).The communications capacity of the Centre will continue to be enhanced through web based and social media capacities, as well as new links to arts and design. Over four years, the global standing of the Centre as a hub for knowledge exchange and policy influencing, particularly around the SDGs, will grow, along with its long-term institutional and financial sustainability.