Leadership, Governance and Management Fund

All UK funding councils (HEFCE, SFC, HEFCW and DELNI) are investing in improving leadership, governance and management in the higher education sector through the Leadership, Governance and Management (LGM) Fund. A total of £10 million over three years was available from August 2004 to fund a wide range of projects, and a further £10 million over three years is available from August 2007.

Space related projects in HE from the Leadership Governance and Management Fund

University of Lincoln (lead HEI) with Universities of Glasgow, Glyndwr, Loughborough, Napier, Newcastle, Queen Mary, Oxford Brookes, Reading, Warwick, Wolverhampton and York. Consultants DEGW are also involved

The emergence of new learning landscapes requires much closer collaboration between academics and estates so these new spaces can consolidate and drive further innovation without losing the strengths of the traditional academic environment.

This project will explore new pathways and strategies which universities can use to link academic expertise to the process of quality and cost effective estate development in the redesigning the university for the 21st century.

Notifications of the project are maintained through a communications strategy and website (http://learninglandscapes.lincoln.ac.uk/)

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Learning Landscapes: Clearing Pathways, Making Spaces – involving academics in leadership, governance and the management of estates in higher education

Summary of report: February 2008 – January 2009

Learning Landscapes is a research project looking at the ways in which academics work with colleagues in Estates and other related professionals to develop and manage innovation in the design of teaching and learning spaces in Higher Education. The project involves twelve universities from across the sector and is funded by all UK Funding Councils (HEFCE/SFC/HEFCW )

This project aims to identify areas of good practice in the leadership, governance and management of experimental teaching and learning spaces in universities. These examples of good practice will be developed into change management tools, written up as papers and articles for publication and presented at workshops and conferences, so that experiment and innovation can be facilitated across the sector.

Dissemination and Communication
Notifications of the project are maintained through a communications strategy and website (http://learninglandscapes.lincoln.ac.uk/).

Click here for Learning Landscapes – Research report [PDF | 50Kb]

Read about the Loughborough Project