Sustainable Urban Systems to Transfer Achievable Implementation Network

该网络的主要活动将是举办一系列讲习班，在这些讲习班中将确定和发展研究项目。将有一系列的8个研讨会，设计为4对研讨会，研究团队在其中聚集在一起制定具体的研究计划。每个提案都将在第一次工作坊中按照“沙坑”创意工厂的概念进行开发，然后详细生成一个或多个提案，并在第二次工作坊中完成。每次讲习班将视需要辅以电话/视像会议，以便利详细编制研究建议，包括列入工业和企业投入。向适当的供资机构提交提案通常在第二次讲习班结束后不久进行。因此，在该网络的两年期间，将至少提出四项强有力的研究建议，以满足上述所有研究要素。研讨会将在上海、澳大利亚、香港和英国举行，每个地点举办两场。每个工作坊的主题将由网络团队在每个案例的首席学者的领导下详细制定。然而，每个提案都将涵盖能源、水、交通和规划等广泛主题，并将行为改变和系统思维这两个主要主题作为每个提案的主要驱动因素。每位英国学者将与一位合适的中国学者一起负责一个研讨会，这将使四个建议的风格略有不同，尽管理解行为改变和整体思维的基本信息将在所有这些建议中实现。每个讲习班将由两位主要学者协调，网络管理员提供行政支持。本地安排将由本地网络成员在网络管理员和主要学者的支持下做出。工作坊为合作伙伴提供了绝佳的机会，让他们与当地民众（包括当地工业界、政界人士/政府官员、学校、大学等）一起，就可持续发展、东滩项目和团队提出的其他更具体的问题进行学习、研究和传播。这为团队提供了一个与当地人接触的绝佳机会，并听取他们对正在锻炼团队研究人员思想的问题的关注，从而考虑将这些问题引入到后续的提案中。令人兴奋的是，由于网络的运作方式，我们有机会获得一个非常多元文化和多样化的观点，通过在工作坊访问的每个城市的工作坊中积极的当地参与来改变态度。通过这种方式，我们将能够将来自中国、香港、澳大利亚和英国的输入纳入我们对变化的行为态度的考虑，从而纳入未来研究将开发的变革管理概念模型。

The main activity of the network will be to run a series of workshops in which research projects will be defined and developed. There will be a series of eight workshops, designed as four pairs of workshops in which the research team comes together to develop a specific research proposal. Each proposal will be developed along the lines of the 'Sandpit' Ideas factory concept in the first workshop of a pair, followed by detailed generation of one or more proposals which are finalised in the second workshop of the pair. Each workshop would be supplemented with tele/videoconferences as necessary to facilitate detailed generation of the research proposals, including the inclusion of industrial and entrepreneurial inputs. Submission of the proposal to the appropriate funding body would normally take place shortly after the second workshop. Thus over the two years of the Network, a minimum of four strong research proposals would be developed to meet all of the research elements outlined above. The workshops will take place in Shanghai, Australia, Hong Kong and the UK, two in each location.The subject matter for each workshop will be worked out in detail by the network team under the leadership of the Lead Academics in each case. However, the broad topics of energy, water, transport and planning will be covered in each proposal, taking the two major overarching themes of behavioural change and systems thinking as the main drivers in each case. Each of the UK academics will be responsible for one workshop together with an appropriate Chinese academic and this will give a slightly different flavour to the four proposals, although the basic message of understanding behavioural change and holistic thinking will be achieved in all of them. Each workshop will be coordinated by the two lead academics, with the Network Administrator providing the administrative backup. Local arrangements will be made by the local network member with backup from the network administrator and lead academics.The workshops provide excellent opportunities for the collaborating partners to join with local people / including local industry, politicians/government officials, schools, universities etc / in learning, research and dissemination activities about sustainable development, the Dongtan project and other more specific issues being raised by the team. This provides an excellent opportunity for the team to engage with local people and to hear their concerns about the issues which are exercising the minds of the researchers in the team and thus to consider importing these into the subsequent proposals. The excitement of this is that because of the way the network will work, we have an opportunity to obtain a very multicultural and diverse view of attitudes to change through active local participation during the workshops in each city visited by the workshops. In this way we will be able to include in our considerations of behavioural attitudes to change, inputs from China, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK and thus into the conceptual models for change management that the future research will be developing.