SSN+ have a unique research grant opportunity for a research team to take part in an international collaboration between the Sustainable Society Network+ and the Van Alen Institute in New York. Proposals are invited up to 29 September 2014.

Sponsoring a joint US-UK initiative to explore how digital technologies can be used to better understand the complex relationship between the built environment of the city and addictive behaviours. Looking for UK applicants to form multidisciplinary teams with the skills to investigate this from perspectives in the engineering, social, and economic sciences, such as environmental psychology, human-computer interaction, geography, sociology, epidemiology, architecture, and urban planning.

Please see the website for more information http://sustainablesocietynetwork.net/awards/digital-technologies-the-city-and-addictive-behaviours-with-the-van-alen-institute-new-york/