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Research interests
My current interests centre on the field my teams have led: Group Shared Values Crystallisation Approaches, using the so-called WeValue portfolio of approaches. These allow local voices to be made tangible in a remarkably authentic fashion, opening up new pathways to fair and just representations of local people for public policy planning/ environmental management/ climate change/ health/ local development/ international development/urban design. The macro-processes concern design thinking; the meso-processes concern sense-making; the micro-processes concern knowledge transformation from tacit to explicit. These can be linked to neural processes; AI frontiers in embodied thinking; and operationalization of Ecological Civilization.
This website contains rich information (but is still under construction as of April 2025…): Sustainable Behaviour Research Group https://sberg.fudan.edu.cn/index.htm
I no longer work in domains of recycling, physics, lab-based engineering (except to continue existing collaborations).
Knowledge exchange
I regularly work via contracts with government agencies, businesses, quangos, social organisations and other universities on work relating to those mentioned in Research Interests. I have delivered on over 80 contracts in these areas.
Supervisory Interests
I am a professor at both Fudan University, China and University of Brighton UK. All my PhD students must work within my current program interests (roughly outlined above).
In China I can nominate PhD candidates for Full Scholarships (which includes a monthly allowance) for a 4-year position (some courses). Send me your CV in Oct-Nov to start discussions and application processes for entry the following August. NB Fudan is a top-100 global university and students must publish 1-2 papers. Those sensitive to hard work, new cultures, and reading around completely new disciplines to make progress, need not apply! Shanghai is a modern city.
In Brighton, UK, I can only accept fee-paying students (3-year program- no courses).
I welcome postdocs to join me for 2 years at Fudan University in Shanghai (with links with Brighton). Registration any time of year - when I have funding. Accommodation and basic salary is provided – and applicants graduated from Top-200 Universities can sometimes earn a salary to match Western levels.
Approach to teaching
I teach on the basis that students are actively interested in learning, and will firm up the content and assessment methods around the needs of individual students to the greatest extent possible. This means I like to know your background, and where you think you are going to: I will then try to support you on that pathway within my segment of your education.
I believe in travelling across disciplinary boundaries wherever needed, respecting the need for further reading and understanding every time - and like students to do the same. I like to challenge students to think more critically, but try to do this at an appropriate level for them.
I believe that quality learning can also come from non-formal sources of information and disruption.
Education/Academic qualification
DPhil in Nuclear Structure, DPhil, Nuclear Structure, Sussex University
Award Date: 16 Jan 1991
External positions
China National Thousand Talents Professor, Fudan University
1 Sept 2011 → …
Honorary Professor, University College London
Keywords
- GE Environmental Sciences
- Values-based approaches
- group shared values
- WeValue method
- In-situ values
- Sustainble behaviour change
- Transformational learning
- Tacit knowledge
- personal knowledge theory
- organizational change
- local sustainability
- sustainable development
- social sustainability
- local indicators
- social impact assessment
- urban desirable states
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Projects
- 8 Finished
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iPact: Port and Coastal Cities and Towns Network (PoCCiToNe / iPact)
Harder, M. (PI)
1/03/22 → 28/02/25
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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GCRF Action against Stunting Hub
Harder, M. (PI)
12/02/19 → 30/09/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Capturing values-based legacies of community-led development with GPI in Bhutan
Harder, M. (PI) & Hoover, E. (CoI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/06/16 → 31/05/17
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Cultivating compassion
Ramage, C. (PI), Harder, M. (PI), Hoover, E. (CoI), Gallagher, A. (PI), Theodosius, C. (CoI), Chellel, A. (CoI), Glynn, A. (CoI), Leng, J. (CoI), Price, J. (CoI), Anderson, J. (CoI), Burford, G. (CoI), Martin, C. (CoI) & Wrigley, M. (CoI)
1/07/14 → 30/05/15
Project: Research
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Starting from values: Evaluating intangible legacies
Harder, M. (PI), Brigstocke, J. (CoI), Zamenopoulos, T. (PI), Alexiou, K. (CoI), de Sousa, S. (PI), Graham, P. (PI), Gaubert, J. (CoI), Hoover, E. (CoI) & Burford, G. (CoI)
3/03/14 → 2/03/15
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Towards making EIA more human-centric: Demonstration in Nepal of a values crystallization approach to capture local shared values for scoping use
Pazhoor, S., Pandey, S., Palmer, D. A., Timilsina, B., Huang, Y., Zhang, Y., Gaire, B., Timilsina, B., Marasini, R. & Harder, M. K., 16 Oct 2024, In: Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 110, 13 p., 107697.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enabling shared values for sustainability transformation: empirical lessons from a case of promoting cross-group collaboration in China
Huang, Y., Wesselink, R., Odii, B. O., Wals, A. E. J. & Harder, M. K., 4 Sept 2024, In: Sustainability Science. 19, p. 1979–1996 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Creating culturally-informed protocols for a stunting intervention using a situated values-based approach ( WeValue InSitu ): a double case study in Indonesia and Senegal
Chapman, A. J., Ebido, C. C., Tening, R. N., Huang, Y., Sougou, N. M., Kolopaking, R., Diallo, A. H., Anggorowati, R., Dial, F. B., Massonnié, J., Firoozmand, M., Niang, C. E. H. A. & Harder, M. K., 9 Apr 2024, In: BMC Public Health. 24, 1, 987 (2024) .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding the mechanisms of meaning-making for transformations toward sustainability: contributions from Personal Knowledge Theory
Odii, B. C., Huang, Y. & Harder, M. K., 4 Feb 2024, In: Sustainability Science. 19, 3, p. 865-881 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Using desirable urban states to understand key linkages between resilience subsystems
Wu, W., Huang, Y., Fath, B. D., Schwarzfurtner-Lutnik, K. & Harder, M. K., 9 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 436, 140678.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Making The Invisible Visible:
Harder, M. (Organiser)
16 Dec 2010 → 18 Dec 2010Activity: Events › Conference
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Bringing local values into the ESG framework: the WeValue InSitu method
Harder, M. (Presenter)
16 Jan 2023Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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University of Melbourne
Harder, M. (Visiting researcher)
3 Nov 2018 → 11 Nov 2018Activity: Visiting position › Visiting an external academic institution
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Emerging concepts of VALUES in Sustainable Consumption and Production Design
Harder, M. (Presenter)
1 Nov 2015 → 4 Nov 2015Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Second GRF-SPaC Conference: global transitions to sustainable production and consumption systems
Harder, M. (Participant)
8 Jun 2014 → 11 Jun 2014Activity: Events › Workshop