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。将有一系列的八个研讨会，设计为四对研讨会，研究小组聚集在一起制定具体的研究方案。每一份提案都将按照“沙坑”创意工厂的概念在第一个车间中开发，然后详细生成一个或多个提案，最后在第二个车间中敲定。每个讲习班将视需要辅之以电话会议/视频会议，以便利详细地提出研究建议，包括纳入工业和企业投入。向适当的供资机构提交提案通常在第二次讲习班之后不久进行。因此，在网络的两年时间里，将至少制定四项强有力的研究提案，以满足上述所有研究内容。工作坊将在上海、澳洲、香港和英国举行，每个地点各两个，每个工作坊的主题将由网络小组在牵头学者的领导下详细拟定。然而，每个提案将涵盖能源、水、交通和规划等广泛主题，将行为变化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。每名英国学者将与一名合适的中国学者一起负责一个研讨会，这将使四项提议略有不同，尽管所有提议都将实现理解行为变化和整体思维的基本信息。每个研讨会将由两位首席学者协调，由网络管理员提供行政支持。本地网络成员将在网络管理员和主要学术机构的支持下做出本地安排。工作坊为合作伙伴提供了绝佳的机会，让合作伙伴与当地人民/包括当地工业界、政界/政府官员、学校、大学等/一起，就可持续发展、东滩项目和小组提出的其他更具体的问题开展学习、研究和传播活动。这为小组提供了一个极好的机会与当地人接触，听取他们对小组中研究人员正在思考的问题的关切，从而考虑将这些问题纳入随后的提案。令人兴奋的是，由于该网络的工作方式，我们有机会在讲习班所访问的每个城市的讲习班期间，通过积极的当地参与，获得关于改变态度的非常多元和多样化的观点。通过这种方式，我们将能够将中国、香港、澳大利亚和英国的意见纳入我们对变化的行为态度的考虑中，从而将其纳入未来研究将发展的变化管理概念模型中。

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.