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The University Living Lab

The University Living Lab. James Evans, Andrew Karvonen , Lucy Millard, Ross Jones and Tom Langridge. The opportunity. Scale of campus and proposed development Quantity and quality of sustainability expertise Number of students on sustainability and low carbon related courses

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The University Living Lab

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  1. The University Living Lab James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Lucy Millard, Ross Jones and Tom Langridge

  2. The opportunity • Scale of campus and proposed development • Quantity and quality of sustainability expertise • Number of students on sustainability and low carbon related courses • Growing importance of applied research to staff and students • Established collaborative projects and programmes to build on

  3. The Project • Origins • Goals • Collate existing and potential research and teaching activities for the UoM campus • Collate current and planned Estates activities (new build, retrofit and management) and relevant data • Establish venues for constructive collaboration between researchers and Estates • Apply for long-term funding from the public and private sectors • Produce a roadmap for future UoM living lab activities

  4. Living lab approach Experiment LearnMonitor ‘Institutionally bounded environment in which to make material interventions in the (real) world and learn from them in a rigorous way’

  5. Mapping Sustainability Activity • 335 sustainability contacts: 81 from PSS, 254 academics • 96 current and recently completed research projects • 128 research groups, centres and institutions across the university • In-depth interviews conducted with 26 members of staff: 11 from PSS and 15 academics • Keywords on areas of expertise collected for all 335 contacts

  6. Distribution of people

  7. Distribution of teaching in 2012-13 • 112 courses, ~7,000 students across 11 schools

  8. Number of Students Involved in Sustainability Courses

  9. What you told us... • Unanimous support for closer links between campus and research/teaching • Mutual understanding is critical • Potential for upstream academic engagement leading to sequence of collaboration: • Advice relationship grows research and teaching • Need to institutionalise collaboration

  10. Thank You! Diana Hampson Henry McGhie Frank Allison Steve Jordan Arthur Nicholas Emma Gardner Damian Oatway Andrew Hough Michael Bane Ian Madley Neil Stubbs Many thanks to everyone from PSS who gave up their time to be interviewed

  11. Thank You! Tim O’Brien Maynard Case Sarah Mander Gregory Lane-Serff Chris Cutts Colin Hughes John Broderick Peter Crossley Paul Dewick Babis Theodoulidis Ian Cotton Peter R Green Richard Preziosi James Winterburn James Thompson Many thanks to all the academics who gave up their time to be interviewed

  12. Special thank you to University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) for funding the University Living Lab for Sustainability Project

  13. universitylivinglab.org@ULLManchester

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