Cooper, A;
Vingre, A;
Bryan, B;
Shah, M;
McHugh, S;
Cimatti, R;
(2022)
Understanding Transdisciplinary Engineering in Public Policy: A Survey of Policy Actors' Perceptions of Engineering Expertise.
In:
Transdisciplinarity and the Future of Engineering: Volume 28.
(pp. pp. 727-738).
IOS Press
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Abstract
The transdisciplinary engineering project aims to transform the practice of engineering for more social benefit, and be agenda driven. For this to work, a key community of non-engineering actors needs to be effectively engaged: those working in public policy. Through data gathered for a project exploring interested in a career development scheme for policy officials offered by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, we explore the opportunities and barriers to better engagement between engineering and this community. An explorative online survey with policy actors gathered views on the importance of (non-transdisciplinary) engineering to policy in different policy settings. While those who regard technical expertise as crucial to their policy are keen to engage with engineering, others find it more difficult to engage. We suggest this is down to three factors: narrowness in what ‘engineering' is (so a failure to understand the ability to apply engineering concepts, e.g. systems thinking, in a variety of areas); organisational arrangements that split policy practice that might more readily connect to engineering from those who do policy design; policy analysis rooted in standard microeconomic forms of analysis. We suggest ways in which these issues might be addressed through education and research to enable the effective deployment of transdisciplinary engineering practice.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Understanding Transdisciplinary Engineering in Public Policy: A Survey of Policy Actors' Perceptions of Engineering Expertise |
| ISBN-13: | 9781614994398 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3233/ATDE220706 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3233/ATDE220706 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163380 |
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