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New Challenges
The initial Research Grand Challenges launched in 2004 emerged from a burst of activity with many candidate proposals. They won through by satisfying a set of challenge criteria and by attracting sufficient community support.
Steering committee: Wendy Hall (chair), Robin Milner, Karen Sparck-Jones
There was no assumption that these six were all the possible Challenges, and the GC Steering Committee formulated on the UKCRC website a procedure for making new suggestions for Grand Challenges.
The Committee also welcomed new proposals to be put to GCC06, with sessions for presentation and further discussion. Proposers were asked to give evidence of support from a number of institutions, and to suggest how their proposal would be initially taken forward.
Three proposals were presented, two in research, 'Learning for life' and 'Bringing the past to life for the citizen', and one meta-challenge bridging research and education.
These new proposals are summarized here in the same two-section format as for the existing Research Challenges: the first section for the proposal, and the second reporting discussion during the meeting. The proposers have been invited to consolidate their proposals further.
Reports
- This proposed challenge is to articulate research-based grand challenges in simple terms to 12 to 14 year-olds that will capture their imagination, allowing them to buy-in to, and be excited about, the discipline.
- To a large extent, the challenge here is to even conceptualize how learning environments and opportunities will manifest, how people will engage with learning events, and what learning for life will be like.
- The vision is that the citizen should be able to witness events of the past replayed interactively, but as more than just a re-creation, allowing the viewer to explore and discover more about the circumstances and motivations of the participants.