Knowledge Exchange Fellowship (Open Call): Increasing the impact of geoscience in land redevelopment projects

这个知识交流奖学金将通过直接与个别土地所有者、开发商和地球环境咨询公司合作，增加NERC地球科学在土地重建领域的影响。本提案涵盖的地球科学包括地质和地球化学资源，包括数据、衍生数据产品、空间决策支持工具和应用科学技术。该奖学金将有助于提高土地业主、发展商和地质环境顾问公司的竞争力，并通过尽量减少与地下有关的不确定性，减少棕地重建的障碍。需要该奖学金来支持英国政府住房和发展政策的实施，旨在帮助英国经济复苏。英国政府在其《规划和住房法案》及其对英格兰国家规划政策框架的改革中认识到这种联系，目标是到2020年在90%的合适棕地获得规划许可。该奖学金将帮助企业更好地利用最先进的NERC地球科学技术，这将有助于提高它们在国内的竞争力，并增强其专业知识出口的潜力。该奖学金将通过一对多和一对一的方式与土地所有者、开发商和地质环境咨询公司进行接触和合作，改善NERC与这些企业之间的环境效益。便利的讲习班将使与会者掌握NERC地球科学知识，并评估英国地质调查局（BGS）内部存在的阻碍土地再开发部门利用它的障碍。这些障碍包括价格、意识、许可、最终用户需求、获取便利、科学成果的电子格式、软件界面和3D/2D地下模型的内容。在一对一的支持中，研究员将跟随开发项目经理，并确定NERC地球科学在项目生命周期中的影响最大的地方。该研究员将与大约10家企业密切合作，在决策过程中融入NERC地球科学，例如使用地下等高线地图来计算和设计前化工厂的地下停车场。对所有利益相关者的影响进行量化，并使用结果来帮助指导未来的NERC地球科学。与个别企业的合作将提高研究员对重建项目生命周期中如何以及在哪个阶段做出决策的理解。这些知识将用于在大约15个现场重建项目中利用NERC地球科学（例如，Positive Homes在其支持信中确定的棕地）。该研究员将把NERC地球科学整合到项目中并量化其影响。结果将展示双向KE的良好实践，并有助于塑造未来NERC的合作资助投标。讲习班和一对一项目工作的结果将作为NERC地球科学对土地重建部门影响的技术案例研究发表。还将编写一份设计指南，以帮助为NERC工作的科学家和业务开发人员利用研究金的成果，特别是在理解最终用户需求方面。在奖学金期间建立的关系将为未来的合作项目提供新的机会，这些合作项目将在项目结束后持续下去。研究员将在NERC和土地再开发部门横向工作，并与现有的研究员（stephen Bricker和Helen Bonsor），创新英国弹弓等倡议，NERC资助的项目，贸易机构(例如污染土地：在真实环境中的应用)和监管机构（例如普利茅斯市议会，伦敦哈克尼区）。这将为合作创造新的机会，并在适当情况下促进企业与NERC工作人员之间的新联系，从而提高对该研究金的认识和影响。

This Knowledge Exchange (KE) Fellowship will increase the impact of NERC geoscience in the land redevelopment sector by working directly with individual land owners, developers and geoenvironmental consultancy companies. The geoscience covered by this proposal includes geological and geochemical resources which comprise data, derived data-products, spatial decision-support tools and applied science and technology. The Fellowship will help make land owners, developers and geoenvironmental consultancy companies more competitive and reduce barriers to redevelopment of brownfield sites by minimising uncertainties related to the sub-surface.This Fellowship is needed to support the implementation of UK Government policies on housing and development designed to assist with the recovery of the UK economy. UK Government recognises this link in its Planning and Housing Bill and its reform of England's National Planning Policy Framework, with targets for granting planning permission set at 90% of all suitable brownfield sites by 2020. The Fellowship will help businesses make better use of state-of-the-art NERC geoscience which will help improve their competitiveness at home and enhance the potential to export their expertise. The Fellowship will improve KE between NERC and land owners, developers and geoenvironmental consultancy companies using one-to-many and one-to-one approaches to engage and work with these businesses. Facilitated workshops will equip participants with knowledge of NERC geoscience as well as evaluate the barriers that exist within British Geological Survey (BGS) for its exploitation by the land redevelopment sector. These barriers include price, awareness, licensing, end-user needs, ease of access, electronic format of scientific outputs, software interface and content of 3D/2D sub-surface models. During the one-to-one support the Fellow will shadow a development project manager and identify where in the project life cycle NERC geoscience will impact the most. The Fellow will work intensively with approximately 10 businesses on an individual basis to embed NERC geoscience in the decision making process e.g. use of sub-surface contour maps to cost and design underground car parking at a former chemical plant. The impact to all stakeholders to be quantified and results used to help guide future NERC geoscience.Working with individual businesses will improve the Fellow's understanding of how and at what stage decisions are made in the redevelopment project life cycle. This knowledge will be used to utilise NERC geoscience within approximately 15 live redevelopment projects (e.g. the brownfield sites identified by Positive Homes in their Letter of Support). The fellow will integrate NERC geoscience into projects and quantify the impact. The results will demonstrate good practice for two-way KE and help shape future collaborative funding bids to NERC. The results of the workshops and one-to-one project work will be published as technical case studies on the impact of NERC geoscience to the land redevelopment sector. A design guide will also be produced to help both scientists and business development staff working for NERC utilise exploit the results of the Fellowship, especially in terms of the understanding end-user need. The relationships developed during the Fellowship will present new opportunities for future collaborative projects that will be sustained after the projectThe Fellow will work laterally across NERC and the land redevelopment sector and link with existing Fellows (Steph Bricker and Helen Bonsor), initiatives such as Innovate UK Catapults, NERC funded projects, trade bodies (e.g. Contaminated Land: Application in Real Environments) and regulators (e.g. Plymouth City Council, London Borough of Hackney). This will increase awareness and the impact of the Fellowship by generating new opportunities for collaborations and facilitate new links between businesses and NERC staff where appropriate.