A Transition Research Project

The Transition Network conferences in 2010 and 2011 both included informal meetings of an Interest Group on Researching Transition. These meetings, whose participants included many academic researchers also active in their local transition initiatives, identified persistent problems that limited the scope for mutually beneficial collaborations between transition groups and project and their local universities. A 2011 funding call for projects involving collaborations between universities and community groups provided an opportunity to address this, and to apply the design framework for collaborative research developed in a previous design. A successful funding application allowed delivery of a year-long project from early 2012, later extended through follow-on funding for creation of the Transition Research Primer and other outputs. Alongside this, the interest group matured into the Transition Research Network, whose activities included a 'research permablitz', a collaborative design involved around 40 people working at the edge between Transition and academic research.

Design 3 in my diploma portfolio.