This website is the product of an 18-month study of new academic workspaces in the UK higher education sector, which encompassed a wide range of institutions, subject disciplines and building types.

As part of this research, we visited academic work environments at higher education institutions across the UK and talked to a wide range of academics, researchers, support staff, senior managers and estates directors. We also engaged with architects, designers, project managers and other professionals involved in the design and delivery of academic workspaces. In addition to this, we collected data from exemplar work environments at academic institutions overseas.

We would like to thank the following institutions for providing us with access to, and information about, their academic workspace projects:

• Delft University of Technology (BK City, Julianalaan)
• King’s College London (The Strand building)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (New Academic building)
• Loughborough University (Sir Frank Gibb building)
• Newcastle University (The Devonshire and the Paul O’Gorman buildings)
• Nottingham Trent University (Chaucer building)
• Oxford Brookes University (Clerici building)
• The Open University (Jennie Lee building)
• University of Adelaide (10 Pulteney Street building)
• University of Manchester (Arthur Lewis building)
• University of Reading (Henley Business School building)
• University of Warwick (Wolfson Research Exchange)
• University of Westminster (Copland building)
• University of York (Berrick Saul building)
• York St John University (De Grey Court)
• Sheffield Hallam University (Furnival building)