Sustainability, Water and Future Resource Security

该博士奖学金的50%由联合公用事业公司（UU）提供的4.8万英镑资助，建立在大华银行20年来在可持续性、弹性、宜居性和商业模式方面的研究成果基础上，这些研究成果分别由Hunt博士和Rogers教授提出和领导。主要成果将是为任何基础设施干预制定透明、证据确凿的治理框架的方法，并使用工业支持的水和废水系统案例研究进行测试。在UU的高级共同监督下，该研究将探索影响水务部门工程干预的所有“正式”治理形式（立法、监管、税收和财政激励、规范和标准等）以及“非正式”治理形式（公民和社会态度和行为、社会规范、实践规范等）。所有这些形式的治理都需要被识别、分析，并在必要时重新设计，以与科学证据、相关系统中的变更案例以及在实施干预时提供多种形式的价值（考虑系统相互依赖性）的备选业务模型保持一致，否则干预将被证明无效或失败。正如UKCRIC的任务地图所证明的那样，工业界迫切需要这些缺失的研究；因此，博士研究预计将产生非常可观的后续资金。所有其他项目资金（设备、设施、消耗品、T&S）已经有保障；Lis将在她的博士学位期间加入并补充Pipebots RF/PhD团队。

This PhD studentship - 50% funded by a grant of £48k from United Utilities (UU) - builds on UoB's 20-year research portfolio in sustainability, resilience, liveability, and business models advanced and led respectively by Dr Hunt and Professor Rogers. The primary outcome will be a methodology for developing a transparent, robustly-evidenced governance framework for any infrastructure intervention, tested using industrially-supported case studies in water and wastewater systems. With senior co-supervision from UU, the research will explore all 'formal' forms of governance that shape engineering interventions in the water sector (legislation, regulation, taxation and financial incentives, codes & standards, etc.) as well as the 'informal' forms of governance (citizen and societal attitudes and behaviours, societal norms, practice norms, etc.). All of these forms of governance need to be identified, analysed and where necessary re-engineered to align with the scientific evidence, the case for change in the systems in question, and the alternative business models that deliver multiple forms of value (accounting for system interdependencies) when the intervention is implemented, otherwise the intervention will prove ineffective or fail. Industry is desperate for this missing research, as evidenced in UKCRIC's mission maps; the doctoral research is consequently expected to yield very considerable follow-on funding. All other project funding (equipment, facilities, consumables, T&S) is already secured; Lis will join, and complement, the Pipebots RF/PhD team throughout her PhD.