Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces:Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice

Abstract

The Higher Education (HE) sector faces an increasingly challenging environment with key themes identified as: the economic and social fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic,shifting politics, changing expectations around education, and technological advances(Marshall et al., 2024). There are particular concerns about aspects including: a mismatch between tuition fee caps and inflation, reduced government grants (Atherton et al., 2024),decreasing numbers of international students (Bolton et al., 2024), concerns over pensions, pay, and working conditions (University and College Union, 2022), new thresholds for student outcomes (Office for Students, 2022), and gaps around research funding(Butland, 2022)