Spaced out? Delivering effective academic workspaces

Download the presentations from the Academic Workspace conference held on Thursday 19 November 2009 at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Portland Place, London

  Why is academic workspace changing?
  

Elizabeth Heaps, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Estates and Strategic Projects, University of York. Elizabeth is currently overseeing the development of the University’s Heslington East campus.
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  Team players in an individual game
  

Mark Lansdale, Head of the School of Psychology, University of Leicester. Mark has a background in human cognition with applied interests in how behaviour and thought is related to its environment.
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  Workspace and academic identity
  

Chris Baldry, Director of Research, School of Management, University of Stirling. Chris’s research interests have focused on the changing world of work, office space design and employment, including the area of work-life balance.
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  The role of the champion
  

Simon Austin, Professor of Structural Engineering at Loughborough University. Simon is leader of the HEFCE funded ‘Innovative Effective Enjoyable’ project and was project champion for the award-winning Centre for Collaborative Construction Research.
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  Spaces that work
  

Jeremy Myerson, Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal  College of Art. Jeremy is the founding Editor of Design Week and  author of a number of books on office design, including the forthcoming New Demographics, New Workspace: Office Design for the Changing Workforce.
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  Managing conflicting demands
  

James Pinder and Jennifer Parkin, Loughborough and Nottingham Trent Universities, are senior researchers on HEFCE’s ‘Innovative Effective Enjoyable’ project and will present lessons and good practice drawn from the research.
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  Shifting the patterns of space
  

Ilfryn Price, Professor of Facilities Management at Sheffield Hallam University. If’s interests are the processes of innovation, and change in organisations, including the applications of systems thinking, unwritten rules and complexity.
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  Making delivery more effective - and enjoyable
  

Fiona Duggan, Director of FiD Ltd, convenor of the RIBA’s Higher Education Design Quality Forum and a CABE enabler. Fiona works with organisations to explore how space can support learning and working practices.
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