Schools as Community Hubs

Part 1: Scene-setting.- Renewed aspirations for schools as community hubs.- A framework for building schools as community hubs: If it were simpler would it happen everywhere?- Part 2: Partnering.- School-community collaboration: Insights from two decades of partnership development.- Brokering school-community partnerships: Cross-sector advocacy and hard work.- Rear Vision: Lessons from community education in the 80s.- Nature as partner: How school communities benefit from ecological connections.- Part 3: Planning.- School and community infrastructure networks: What might these look like?- Valuing urban schools as social infrastructure.- Connecting schools with local communities through walkable urban design.- Safe yet welcoming: alternative design strategies for secure schools.- Schools as 'Sacred Enclaves' or 'Community Hubs'? South Korean experiences.- Part 4: Designing.- Progressive pedagogies and community connections: Forty years of urban planning and architectural design.- Designing for the needs of a thriving school community hub.- Planning Doveton College: Holistic vision, innovative design and paving the way for others.- Vertical schools as community hubs.- Developing a school and community learning hub: A case study from regional Australia.- Part 5: Enabling.- Emotional labour and developing schools as community hubs.- Policy for schools as community hubs: Insights into a fragmented environment.- Theorising the development, implementation and sustainability of schools as community hubs.- An evaluation framework for schools as community hubs.- The role of evaluative thinking in the success of schools as community hubs.- Are schools as community hubs worth it?

Associate Professor Benjamin Cleveland is Associate Professor in Learning Environments in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he is Co-Director of the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN). He is the Lead Chief Investigator of the three-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project, 'Building Connections: Schools as Community Hubs'. He has acted as Chief Investigator for the ARC Linkage Project, 'Innovative Learning Environments + Teacher Change' (ILETC), led a review of the Victorian School Building Authority's Standard Entitlements Framework and led a three-year programme of learning environment evaluation for Catholic Education Melbourne and Parramatta. His research was recognised with the Research Excellence Award by the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne, in 2019. He currently supervises more than ten Ph.D. candidates in the field of learning environments research. He is past Chair of Learning Environments Australasia-Victoria Chapter and has consulted on school design projects in States and Territories across Australia and New Zealand.
Ms. Sarah Backhouse is a Registered Architect with more than 20 years' of experience facilitating future-focused conversations about designing environments for learning, working and living. Her practice has focused on helping unlock people's potential by creating wellbeing supportive spaces and places. She has consulted on projects as diverse as Global Workplace Guidelines for Microsoft and User Briefs for more than 20 Universities in the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. As a member of the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN), her research interests and expertise span the design of learning environments,  design for wellbeing, strategic and architectural briefing, and wellbeing science. She has a long-held interest in understanding how architects conceptualise wellbeing for