Giving vital health research a new home
Clarice Pears School of Health & Wellbeing - University of Glasgow Glasgow
At a glance
University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
Completed
BREEAM 2014 Excellent
Revolutionising health and wellbeing
The Clarice Pears Building is a multidisciplinary centre for health, bringing staff from 10 different sites together to produce world-leading research on health policy, practice and behaviours that will improve global health and reduce inequalities. The building is named after Clarice Pears, mother of the three founders of the Pears Foundation, which donated £5 million towards its construction.
The Clarice Pears building will significantly enhance the School’s reputation and influence within the sector, increasing Post-Graduate teaching and research capacity, attracting and retaining high-calibre staff. It will provide the means for both opportunistic and planned collaboration and networking, and different disciplines will share social spaces. The building will be used to host joint seminar series, workshops and knowledge exchange events, as well as developing new multi-disciplinary post-graduate courses.
It will also provide an ideal setting to support partnership working, allowing closer links with external partners, such as the NHS, government, voluntary sector and industry, which are all essential to allow research to be translated into changes in policy and practice and therefore achieve a real impact on health.
The ground floor provides a welcoming and publicly accessible space dedicated to knowledge exchange and public engagement, which will also support the School’s widening participation goals.
The new building will host three multi-disciplinary research themes including Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities, Data Science and solutions-focused research.
"This will be a landmark building, revolutionising the study of health and wellbeing at Glasgow and positively influencing our impact on the city of Glasgow, Scotland and the world. It will bring academics and support staff together under one roof, supporting world-changing research, while allowing us to expand our knowledge exchange and stakeholder activities, maximising how our work translates into policy and practice.”
