A collaboration between The University of Manchester, Edinburgh University, Essex University, Lancaster University and Leeds University with Fellowships based at Cardiff University, Queens University Belfast and The University of Salford
Intermediaries and the Meso-Level Restructuring of New Practices
Overview
This Fellowship is exploring whether it is possible for ‘intermediaries’ to operate between macro level pressures and micro level social contexts in order to purposively manage the emergence of new practices. This is both a theoretical and empirical question. Within the context of funded work on water infrastructure, energy demand management, the hydrogen economy and urban ecological security we have a substantial body of empirical work on the critical role of ‘strategic’ intermediaries attempting to develop systemic change in socio-technical systems across a wide range of different urban and local contexts. The activity is of conceptual value based upon a review of literature which contributes to the core concerns of the SPRG programme.
Research Team:
Fellow: Mike Hodson
Fellow: Simon Marvin
