Getting the research community to change their practices and embrace e-conferencing technologies for collaborating with colleagues across sites entails changes on the individual as well as the organisational level. Assuming that providing researchers with e research technologies such as high speed internet connection, and high definition video conferencing will automatically result in a shift in practices that will reduce travelling for meeting with collaborating colleagues has been proved erroneous . This type of change entails numerous interrelating factors. This interrelatedness creates complex systems which need to be understood in order for change to be implemented effectively.

My postdoctoral project is addressing the change from a Systems Approach arguing that for change to be implemented effectively numerous interdependent factors have to be addressed. To do this effectively I propose to study the interrelated relationships between the various factors. Through understanding how the interdependent relationships operate we can begin to address change processes in a way which acknowledges the parts as being part of a whole, rather than addressing different parts as stand alone units.