What is a sandcastle?
Many of us will be familiar with the term Sandpit as a funding council mechanism to bring academics from various disciplines together to work towards bidding for money from a grand challenge. Sandpits have been very successful mechanisms for allocating funding. A Sandcastle is different to a sandpit in three ways. Firstly, there is no money at stake. Secondly, the aim is collaboration of the whole sandcastle rather than a competition between various academic teams. Finally, a sandcastle is a way of pooling knowledge in a subject area.
The aim of this sandcastle
The aim of this Sandcastle event was to bring together academics,
practitioners and policy makers working in the broad field of ‘Critical
Infrastructure Failure and Mass Population Response’, to debate the nature of
working in this field. The event was part of an Economic and Social Research
Council funded project entitled ‘Mass population response to critical
infrastructure collapse - a comparative approach’ (2012-15), directed by John
Preston of the University of East London, which examines how governments
prepare citizens for collapse in the Critical National Infrastructure and how
they model collapse and population response.
Many of us will be familiar with the term Sandpit as a funding council mechanism to bring academics from various disciplines together to work towards bidding for money from a grand challenge. Sandpits have been very successful mechanisms for allocating funding. A Sandcastle is different to a sandpit in three ways. Firstly, there is no money at stake. Secondly, the aim is collaboration of the whole sandcastle rather than a competition between various academic teams. Finally, a sandcastle is a way of pooling knowledge in a subject area.
The aim of this sandcastle
The aim of this Sandcastle event was to bring together academics,
practitioners and policy makers working in the broad field of ‘Critical
Infrastructure Failure and Mass Population Response’, to debate the nature of
working in this field. The event was part of an Economic and Social Research
Council funded project entitled ‘Mass population response to critical
infrastructure collapse - a comparative approach’ (2012-15), directed by John
Preston of the University of East London, which examines how governments
prepare citizens for collapse in the Critical National Infrastructure and how
they model collapse and population response.