The University Living Lab James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Lucy Millard, Ross Jones and Tom Langridge
Feb 25, 2016
The opportunityScale of campus and proposed developmentQuantity and quality of sustainability expertiseNumber of students on sustainability and low carbon related
coursesGrowing importance of applied research to staff and studentsEstablished collaborative projects and programmes to build
on
The ProjectOriginsGoals- 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
Living lab approach‘Institutionally bounded environment in which to make material
interventions in the (real) world and learn from them in a rigorous way’
Experiment
Learn Monitor
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
Distribution of teaching in 2012-13
45.7%
30.9%
18.1%
5.3%
EPSHumanitiesFLSInterdisciplinary
• 112 courses, ~7,000 students across 11 schools
Number of Students Involved in Sustainability Courses
MACESE
AESSC
EAS
EEE
Chemistry
Phys. &
Astronomy
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SSMBS
Law
Life Sc
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What you told us...Unanimous support for closer links between campus and
research/teachingMutual understanding is criticalPotential for upstream academic engagement leading to
sequence of collaboration:
Advice relationship grows research and teaching
• Need to institutionalise collaboration
Thank You!
Many thanks to everyone from PSS who gave up their time to be interviewed
Diana Hampson
Emma GardnerSteve Jordan
Frank Allison
Andrew Hough
Henry McGhie
Arthur Nicholas
Michael Bane
Neil StubbsIan Madley
Damian Oatway
Thank You!
Many thanks to all the academics who gave up their time to be interviewed
Maynard Case
Babis Theodoulidis
Colin Hughes
John Broderick
Ian Cotton
Paul DewickPeter Crossley
Chris Cutts
James Thompson
Peter R Green
James Winterburn
Tim O’Brien
Gregory Lane-Serff
Richard Preziosi
Sarah Mander
Special thank you to University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) for funding the
University Living Lab for Sustainability Project