Yesterday the four new projects funded under the EPSRC SUE3 programme were brought together to discuss synergies. They are all highly interdisciplinary projects and will raise interesting issues about how this can be made to work successfully. In addition to CLUES, the other three projects are:
STEP-CHANGE - a transport-focussed project bringing together qualitative longtitudinal research on a specific cohort of households with mathematical modelling on travel patterns; this hopes to crack the problem of how behavioural change occurs. CLUES is also planning to marry some modelling work with qualitative research (in our case, via case studies).
RETROFIT 2050 - a project using Foresight and scenario techniques together with GIS modelling at the regional scale to look at energy, waste and water. CLUES is also developing scenarios so we hope to collaborate on this aspect.
SECURE - a project looking at the integration of transport, energy and ecosystems at the regional scale with modelling at three time points: 2011, 2016 and 2050. In the energy area, they will be scaling up from existing intiatives in a technique similar to the CLUES approach.
The four teams plan to stay in touch and share lessons on their interdisciplinary research, both methodologically and in terms of findings. There was also some initial discussion of multi/inter/transdisciplinarity and reference to the work of Julie Thompson Klein, which could prove useful.
Yvonne Rydin, UCL
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