The university tea room
Informal public spaces as ideas incubators
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12650145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire E F Wright (0000-0002-4215-4169, University of Wollongong, corresponding author), Ville (0000-0001-8314-6002, University of Wollongong) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 236-254 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14490854.2018.1443701 |
| OpenAlex | W2801713070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Informal spaces encourage the meeting of minds and the sharing of ideas. They serve as an important counterpoint to the formal, silo-like structures of the modern organisation, encouraging social bonds and discussion across departmental lines. We address the role of one such institution – the university tea room – in Australia in the post-WWII decades. Drawing on a series of oral history interviews with economic historians, we examine the nature of the tea room space, demonstrate its effects on research within universities, and analyse the causes and implications of its decline in recent decades
Counterpoint · Institution · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social institution · Social science · Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |