Update on PGR Common Room

Message from Lindsay O’Dell, Graduate School Director:

“As you may know we have been working with Estates to find a suitable common room for PGR students. It’s taken a long time but I think we are nearly there. We are working with the library to hopefully move the common room to the ground floor space in the library.

 The Library, Graduate School and a small group of students are working together to co-design the common room space. Our aim is to work collaboratively and to then present and publish from the project. It’s the first of what I hope are a series of scholarship projects regarding PGRS. The overarching approach will be the same across these - working collaboratively as a community of practice in the University and then disseminating it to a national/international audience.

 Colleagues in the library work collaboratively as part of their everyday practice. Some of this has involved PGR topics. Below are some of their previous projects:

• Cognitive Mapping report
• Library Building Space Research Findings

We’d be interested in hearing student feedback on what they want from a common room space. Feel free to comment below or email [email protected].

Lindsay”