The University Living Lab

James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Lucy Millard, Ross Jones and Tom Langridge

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

24.2%

34.9%

28.3%

7.2%

5.4%

PSSEPSHumanitiesFLSMHS

Distribution of people

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

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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

universitylivinglab.org

@ULLManchester