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Hoe meet je praktische relevantie?

Een praktijkgericht onderzoek in het hbo heeft als doel om nieuwe kennis te ontwikkelen die een bijdrage kan leveren aan de (beroeps)praktijk. Praktijkgerichte onderzoekers in het hbo zouden zich daarom moeten afvragen in welke mate hun onderzoek een duurzame bijdrage levert. Wij presenteren hiertoe een domein-overstijgend hulpmiddel: Het Praktijkgereedheid van Onderzoek-model (PRO-model). We definiëren daarin de praktijkgereedheid van onderzoek als de mate waarin onderzoeksactiviteiten bijdragen aan veranderingen in de praktijk die blijvend zijn, ook nadat het onderzoek is afgerond.

An Agent-Based Model for exploring behaviour change policies for improving waste separation at SMEs

Waste separation at companies is considered a priority to achieve a circular and sustainable society. This research explores behaviour change poli-cies for separating the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) at Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), particularly in cities. At SMEs, co-work-ers are responsible for waste disposal. Therefore, their behavioural intention to-wards pro-environmental action plays a major role. In this study, we have used agent-based modelling and simulation to explore the waste behaviour of the ac-tors in the system. The models were co-created in participatory workshops, sur-veys and interviews with stakeholders, domain experts and relevant actors. Ad-ditionally, we co-created and tested practical social and technical interventions with the model. We used the collaborative modelling method Lange reported to conceptualise, implement, test and validate the models. Five policies that affect waste separation behaviour were included in the model. The model and simula-tion results were cross-validated with the help of a literature study. The results were validated through experts and historical data to sketch a generalisable idea of networks with similar characteristics. These results indicate that combinations of behaviour profiles and certain policy interventions correlate with waste sepa-ration rates. In addition, individual waste separation policies are often limitedly capable of changing the behaviour in the system. The study also shows that the intention of co-workers concerning environmental behaviour can significantly impact waste separation rates. Future work will include the role of households, policies supporting separating multiple waste types, and the effect of waste sep-aration on various R-strategies.

The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary

Human behaviour change is necessary to meet targets set by the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. Restrictions and regulations put in place globally to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 have had a substantial impact on everyday life, including many carbon-intensive behaviours such as transportation. Changes to transportation behaviour may reduce carbon emissions. Behaviour change theory can offer perspective on the drivers and influences of behaviour and shape recommendations for how policy-makers can capitalise on any observed behaviour changes that may mitigate climate change. For this commentary, we aimed to describe changes in data relating to transportation behaviours concerning working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. We display these identified changes in a concept map, suggesting links between the changes in behaviour and levels of carbon emissions. We consider these changes in relation to a comprehensive and easy to understand model of behaviour, the Opportunity, Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model, to understand the capabilities, opportunities and behaviours related to the observed behaviour changes and potential policy to mitigate climate change. There is now an opportunity for policy-makers to increase the likelihood of maintaining pro-environmental behaviour changes by providing opportunities, improving capabilities and maintaining motivation for these behaviours.

The willingness of Dutch travelers to travel pro-environmentally post-COVID-19.

Het "JeugdSynergiePlan"

Het JeugdSynergiePlan beschrijft de wijze waarop er bij verenigingen door een effectieve samenwerking tussen de verschillende stakeholders meer kan worden bereikt voor iedereen. De belangrijkste samenwerkende partijen (stakeholders) bestaan uit de leden, de ouders en vrijwilligers, de verenigingen, de bonden, de overheid, de zorgverzekeraars, de sponsors en de zakelijke dienstverleners. Speerpunt vormt de kwetsbare groep van middelbare scholieren voor wie er in praktijk te weinig aandacht bestaat. Door de samenwerking waarbij de partijen gebruik gaan maken van elkaars sterktes en kansen ontstaat er synergie: het effect van de samenwerking is groter dan wat iedere partij afzonderlijk had kunnen bereiken. In het rapport komen theorie en praktijk bij elkaar. De theorie inzake synergie wordt op een unieke manier beschreven en verduidelijkt. Ook staan er veel unieke oplossingen beschreven in het rapport waarmee synergie in praktijk kan worden uitgevoerd. Er wordt meer bereikt en er worden kosten bespaard. Het rapport biedt dan ook grote winstmogelijkheden voor de leden, voor de verenigingen, voor de overheid, de jeugdzorg, het onderwijs, voor de zakelijke dienstverlening; kortom de hele maatschappij. Belangrijke zaken komen eerst en daarom gaat welzijn boven welvaart en een pro-actief beleid gaat voor restrictief beleid. Dat kan allemaal met dit model! Vast staat dat de jeugd een enorme potentie heeft voor velen. Hier groeien de toekomstige winnaars voor 2028, maar hier groeien ook de toekomstige werknemers, politici, uitvinders. Doorzettingsvermogen, discipline, ijver en sociale vaardigheden vormen aspecten die we in het verenigingsleven kunnen stimuleren. Maatschappelijke doelstellingen als integratie, armoedebeleid en gezondheid, zijn daarmee te sturen vanaf het speelgras en het honk. Het kind en de vereniging kunnen hiermee uitgroeien tot het maatschappelijk goud en het olympisch vuur.

Crafting intrapreneurial stewardship

Research suggests that construction clients, as building owner-occupier, are struggling to implement smart maintenance. This thesis assumes that this is due to a failure to fully understand the institutional complexities of smart maintenance. Hence, the aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding of these complexities and to develop theoretical and practical knowledge on the professionalization of construction clients in commissioning smart maintenance through stewardship. Stewardship theory portrays managers and employees as collectivists, pro-organizational and trustworthy, and can be used for designing collaborations based on intrinsic motivation and trust. A first insight from this thesis relates to how institutional complexity in smart maintenance management (SMM) can be understood (study 1). Institutional complexity is defined as the combined effect of 15 interorganizational and intraorganizational tensions that are active simultaneously. A second insight from this thesis relates to the capabilities that construction clients need to address the institutional complexities of SMM and connect various institutional fields (study 2). Using data collected from four cases involving two construction clients, a framework with eight maturity dimensions, involving 23 sub-dimensions, has been developed and validated. The third insight from this thesis relates to the role of the purchasing function in commissioning smart maintenance and emerged from considering the service triad concept (study 3). The findings indicate that the service triad concept fails to provide sufficient detail to adequately describe the construction client’s role in SMM. Hence, the service triad is extended to a service hexad. Our fourth insight relates to intrapreneurial stewardship (study 4). A process model for change implementation through stewardship interventions has been developed and then evaluated in a case study. The process model combines constructs from stewardship theory with intrapreneurship concepts and describes how employees can be coached by leaders during periods of organizational change. Together, the insights from the four studies are synthesized in a framework for client-led innovation in SMM and describe how construction clients can increase SMM maturity in institutionally complex environments through stewardship.