Table 3. Stages of Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH) programme theory development.
| Stage | Action | Year | Month | Number
of CUSSH members involved |
Approach to recruitment
Meeting format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Generating
ideas on the theory |
Small group discussion and
meeting about programme theory |
2018 | June | 6 | Sub-group of CUSSH team identified
with skills and interest in developing the programmetheory Open discussion |
| Agenda item at all team meeting | June | 11 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Agenda item alongside CUSSH updates |
||
| Workshop on transformative
change |
September | 17 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Workshop organised by members of CUSSH team (work package 1) |
||
| Agenda item at all team meeting | 2019 | April | 10 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Agenda item alongside CUSSH updates |
|
| Session at annual meeting | May | 25 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Several external stakeholders Presentations and discussion |
||
| Agenda item at team meeting | June | 9 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Agenda item alongside CUSSH updates |
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| 2. Sharing
ideas |
Circulation of draft paper and
documents |
April | 16 | Sub-group of CUSSH team identified with skills
and interest in developing the programme theory Email notes and revisions |
|
| Workshop on transformative
change |
May | 20 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Workshop organised by members of CUSSH team (work package 1) |
||
| Small group discussion and
meeting |
July | 16 | Sub-group of CUSSH team identified with skills
and interest in developing the programme theory Email notes and revisions |
||
| Agenda item and discussion at
all team meeting |
October | 8 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Agenda item alongside CUSSH updates |
||
| 3. Reflecting on
the theory |
Small group discussion and
meeting |
November | 16 | Sub-group of CUSSH team identified with skills
and interest in developing the programme theory Email notes and revisions |
|
| Involvement of team member
focused on evaluation |
2020 | January | 1 | Independent review of documents | |
| Senior management team
meeting to discuss programme theory |
January | 8 | Senior management team of CUSSH
Agenda item alongside CUSSH updates |
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| 4. Finalising the
theory and supporting documentation |
Circulation of key documents to
senior management team |
May | 5 | Senior management team of CUSSH
Email notes and revisions |
|
| Session at annual meeting | June | 55 | Open invitation to whole CUSSH team
Several external stakeholders Presentations and discussion |
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| Targeted involvement of specific
members of CUSSH in follow-up discussions and drafting |
June | 8 | Targeted requests sent to members of CUSSH
team Review and editing of documents |
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| Evaluation working group
established |
July | 15 | - Sub-group of CUSSH team identified with
skills and interest in developing the programme theory Open discussion and follow up emails |
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| Circulation of draft paper to
members of the team |
July | 25 | Members of CUSSH who have been involved in
or have interest in programme theory Draft paper and diagrams with comments |