MEGS - KT

Progress Meeting March 2010 – May 2010

Project programme

Where we are…(ethnographic research and interviews)

• Identifying companies: SASIE (Nottingham)

• Sole trader: accredited Household energy assessor Keyur Vadodaria (Loughborough)

What’s emerged…

Planning for other companies involvement

• Summer placement to be appointed• Cafe event (fellows companies etc.,)

September • A series of ½ day events September

onwards with fellows – virtual or real – Echo 360 recorded.

Academic and industry fellows “catalytic individuals”

• Potential Fellows: Dr Cecilia K Y Chan (University of Hong Kong); Professor Roger Murphy (University of Nottingham); Dr Elizabeth Hartnall Young; Megan Powell Vreeswijk (Commercialisation Fellow, Loughborough University); Dr Tracey Wilen-Daugenti (The Apollo Group);

• David Matthews (UKHPA), Mo Kelly (Sasie Ltd), Vince Smedley (EMRE Ltd), Laurence Steijger (Sivercrest Ltd)….

• Need a fast prototype social networking site: co-creation site.

• See functionality table.

IT developer role (to be appointed by September)

• Profiling of needs – creating characters, The Director, The Installer, The Designer and Specifier, The Office Manager, The Trainer, The Accredited Assessor, The Office Administrator, The Wholesaler, The Manufacturer, The Policy Maker, The Professor

• Mosaic approach – identification of existing tools

Blogging and WIKI and other dissemination activities planned

• Conference, Loughborough University. Poster presentation. 1st International Conference on Research and Education, 10th July

• Conference. Stand. Cardiff September.• Abstract to be submitted, ICER, Madrid,

November 2012 www.iceri12.org

Risks

• Engagement• Recruitment• Managing expectations• Time constraints• Transferability• Sustainability