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).

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.

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.

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.