Paul Temple Centre for Higher Education Studies Creating a sustainable university place: a research agenda SRHE December 2010

corporate responses to the demands of environmental sustainability (after Dunphy et al, 2003) phase 1:rejection phase 2:compliance and efficiency savings (where most HEIs are now) phase 3:internalisation and creation of a “new” organisational form (few known examples) how to move from phase 2 to phase 3? 2

the phase 3 challenge the space and place distinction: designing space to become place management matters: sorting and reconciling conflicting perspectives one example: air travel carbon footprints 3

a research agenda managing the learning community:  collegial decision-making  teaching and learning, and research, strategies  institutional restructuring place-shaping:  building and campus design  travel plans  facilities management 4

some early tasks quantification space intensification; multiple uses (Google) the working day and the working year worry about travel... that is to say: the organisational, social and physical form of the university are intimately connected (Sennett’s ‘narrative space’ and ‘personified space’) 5

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