Last Friday the project team held another workshop in conjunction with consultants Think One Team International. Attendees included university staff from all aspects of the project and students from the student reference group and passionate people from the Clubs Association. The topic of the workshop was to create a “partnership agreement” between stakeholders of the university to create a governance and operational framework in the Hub.
The Hub offers a unique challenge within the university in the sense that currently there is no such space that can be used as a precedent. Some important questions come to mind, such as:
- How will the Hub be managed?
- Should university staff be actively involved in the management of the space?
We addressed these issues like any workshop would: with butchers paper and crayons.
Perhaps what could be surprising to some was the diverse range of university staff and students had come to quite similar conclusions about how the Hub should be run. The words “flexible” and “versatile” came up in many conversations. There were some strong common points, namely:
− Student integration (with decision making)
− Self-regulation
− Commitment to maintain the space as a learning environment
You can find a summary here.
Everything might all sound a bit airy-fairy at the moment but the information from this meeting creates a foundation in making policies for the daily running of the Hub. The summary doesn’t do the workshop enough justice in conveying how similar the views between university staff and students were.
Members of the project team are currently working on forging a draft of operational guidelines, so expect to hear about it more soon.
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