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Supporting People who Investigate Research Environments & Spaces

SPIRES

Supporting People Who Investigate Research Environments & Spaces

The SPIRES network is at the heart of ideas and information about the design and management of effective research spaces and environments. We are an international research community working across industry, academia and leisure.

SPIRES Members Investigate:

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Physical space: What is the optimum physical environment for effective research?

Social space: What are the social, managerial and people aspects of effective research environments?

Technological space: what new and existing technologies best support effective research?

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SPIRES news

The new Science Library at the University of Western Australia is so popular with its students that they have written a song about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBkGc3v7K9Q
Thanks Maria for pointing it out!

SPIRES link to research facilities at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art here and to SVAG: Scottish Visual Arts Group here

Living Libraries RCA project here

SPIRES
Database project
SPIRES-funded researchers are using the Grammar of Creative Workplaces (Williams 2012) to assess research environments in Berlin, Tokyo, San Francisco, Atlanta, New Jersey, London Vancouver, Seattle and Scotland. More here...

SPIRES is an EPSRC Digital Economy Project

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SPIRES members come from across the disciplines:

Architecture, Design, Built Environment, Property & Construction Management,
Neuroscience and Cognition, Technology, HCI, CSCW, Computer Graphics,
Computer Science, Virtual Research Environments,
Cancer Imaging, Multi-touch Technology, Computer Science, eResearch, Interactive Interfaces, Knowledge Management, Education, Library and Information Science,
Learning and Teaching Technology, Psychology, Social Sciences, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Management and Business management, Archaeology, Art and many others ……….

………..and work with multidisciplinary collaborations.