Links
Research Partners
Kyushu Univeristy User Science Institute
www.usi.kyushu-u.ac.jp
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning
www.abp.unimelb.edu.au
Funding Organisations
Designing for the 21st Century Intiative
The EPSRC and AHRC are jointly funding the Designing for the 21st Century Initiative from 2005 to 2009, and the Welcoming Workplace is one of the projects funded by the second phase of this initiative.
www.design21.dundee.ac.uk
Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Arts and Humanities Research Council supports research within a huge subject domain from traditional humanities subjects, such as history, modern languages and English literature, to the creative and performing arts.
www.ahrc.ac.uk
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
The UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences
www.epsrc.ac.uk
Other research initiatives
Centre for Research into the Older Workforce
The Centre for Research into the Older Workforce exists to study the nature of the older workforce. They examine: older peoples' attitudes to and experience of work, employers' responses to ageing, and the policy issues which arise as Government seeks to encourage people to stay in work later in life.
www.niace.org.uk/crow/index.htm
Design Council Knowledge Cell on Workplace design
Innovative workspaces can have a direct and beneficial effect on staff productivity and creativity. Jeremy Myerson explains how:
www.design-council.org.uk