‘'The University Without Walls' | Professor Martin Parker- Keynote Presentation |

'The University without walls'
Professor Martin Parker, Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol.
Professor Parker delivered the final keynote presentation of #StaffsRIEConf2023
'This presentation is a partly autobiographical reflection on an attempt to practice the work of the university differently. It is the early story of a sort of ‘research institute’ which is attempting to take the problems of its city region seriously and find ways to connect the resources of a large elite university to many other organizations in its locality. In theoretical terms, the paper uses the idea of ‘infrastructure’ as a way of thinking about how we might characterise the ways that any institution operates beyond its imagined boundaries'.