Dr Ben Cleveland

Dr Ben Cleveland is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, where he is Co-Director of the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN). His current research activity includes acting as Lead Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project, ‘Building Connections: Schools as Community Hubs’ (2019-2022) and actively contributing as a Chief Investigator to the ARC Linkage Project ‘Innovative Learning Environments + Teacher Change’ (2016-2019).

He recently lead a three-year program of learning environment evaluation for Catholic Education Melbourne and Catholic Diocese of Parramatta and reviewed the Victorian Department of Education and Training’s school area standards, resulting in significant policy updates. Ben was Research Manager for the ARC Linkage Project, ‘Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments’ (2013-2017) and led the development of a ‘Translational Brief’ for the Footscray Learning Precinct. Ben teaches a range of cross-disciplinary subjects including Innovative Spaces and Pedagogy, Human Environments Relations, and Building the Brief: People, Process, Place. He also supervises more than 10 PhD and Masters students in the field of Learning Environments Research. As a consultant, Ben was the lead Educational Planner for the 15 Victorian state schools procured via Public Private Partnership in 2015-2018. He has also consulted on the Victoria School Building Authority's 2020 and 2021 schools programs, Greater Shepparton College and other school design projects in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, and New Zealand. He is a past Chair of the Victorian Chapter of Learning Environments Australasia.

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FEATURED Journal article

The affordances of innovative learning environments for deep learning: educators' and architects' perceptions (November, 10.1007/S13384-019-00354-Y, 2019)

Ben Cleveland's selected work

Building Connections: Schools As Community Hubs

Research Grant

Students with disabilities need inclusive buildings. We can learn from what's already work..

NEWS ARTICLE

The affordances of innovative learning environments for deep learning: educators' and arch..

Journal article

Building Connections: Schools As Community Hubs

Research Grant

The next generation of Australian schools

NEWS ARTICLE

Geoff Handbury Science and Technology Hub

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website

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Building Connections: Schools As Community Hubs

This project aims to support school systems and planning authorities enhance engagement between schools and local communities. The key objec..

2019 - 2022

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Building Connections: Schools As Community Hubs

This project aims to support school systems and planning authorities enhance engagement between schools and local communities. The key objec..

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My Research Interests Are Associated With All Aspects Of The Built Environments In Which People Learn.

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Find out more about Ben Cleveland's experience

Ben Cleveland's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

The affordances of innovative learning environments for deep learning: educators' and architects' perceptions (November, 10.1007/S13384-019-00354-Y, 2019)

Ben Cleveland's selected work

Research Grant

NEWS ARTICLE

Journal article

Research Grant

NEWS ARTICLE

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website

Projects

Building Connections: Schools As Community Hubs

Building Connections: Schools As Community Hubs

Evidence Based Design And Practice Development In Cent Schools Phases 2 & 3

Review A Draft Version Of The New School Facility Area Schedules: Explanatory Brief And Guidelines

Evaluation Of New Learning Environments, St Joseph'S School

Plans To Pedagogy - P2p

Resource Intensive Space Evaluation In Cairns Catholic Schools

Comparative Learning Environment Evaluation North Melbourne Primary School

Evaluation Of The Prototype Senior School Learning Environment, St Aloysius’ College

Translational Brief For The Footscray Learning Precinct, Department Of Education And Training (Det)

Diocese Of Parramatta: Towards Effective Learning Environments In Catholic Schools: An Evidence Based Approach.

Designing Reflection Interventions

Evidence Based Design And Practice Development In Cent Schools

Innovative Learning Environments And Teacher Change

Innovative Learning Environments And Teacher Change

Innovative Learning Environments And Teacher Change

Innovative Learning Environments And Teacher Change

Learning Environment Evaluation Cairns Diocese

Review Of Standard Entitlement Frameworks For Schools & School Site Size And Outdoor Space Requirements (Including Special Schools & Special Developmental Schools): Department Of Education And Training (Det)

Towards Effective Learning Environments In Catholic Schools: An Evidence Based Approach

Towards Effective Learning Environments In Catholic Schools: An Evidence Based Approach

Affective Encounters: Teaching And Learning For Schools And Communities Through Museums And Collections

Research Into The Design And Occupation Of The Deecd Envii Sustainable Education Space Part A - Alignment Of Pedagogy And Learning Environments

Woodleigh School:Homestead Development Research Project

Pedagogic Practices In New Generation Learning Environments In Victorian Government Schools

School Spaces Evaluation Instrument (Ssei): Learn Research Proposal To The Catholic Education Office Melbourne

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The affordances of innovative learning environments for deep learning: educators' and architects' perceptions (November, 10.1007/S13384-019-00354-Y, 2019)

The affordances of innovative learning environments for deep learning: educators' and architects' perceptions

Geoff Handbury Science and Technology Hub

Why Innovative Learning Environments? Stories from three schools that helped establish an ongoing space and pedagogy agenda

Plug n Play: Future Prefab for Smart Green Schools

Learning Environment Design and Use. Towards Effective Learning Environments in Catholic Schools (TELE): An Evidence-based Approach (2015-2017)

Innovative learning environments as complex adaptive systems: Enabling middle years' education

Developing new thinking in learning environment design and use: The importance of higher-degree research.

The ‘state of play’ concerning New Zealand’s transition to innovative learning environments: Preliminary results from phase one of the ILETC project

PURSUING THAT ELUSIVE EVIDENCE ABOUT WHAT WORKS IN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT DESIGN

Learning environment evaluation and the development of school facility design guidelines

A school but not as we know it! Towards schools for networked communities

Emerging methods for the evaluation of physical learning environments

ADDRESSING THE SPATIAL TO CATALYSE SOCIO-PEDAGOGICAL REFORM IN MIDDLE YEARS EDUCATION

LEaRN Evaluation Module 2: The development of a tool for evaluating the indoor environment quality in learning spaces

Terrains 2015 Mapping Learning Environment Evaluation Across the Design and Education Landscape

Designing learning spaces for interprofessional education in the anatomical sciences

Sustainability vs. pedagogy: synergies and tensions to be resolved in the design of learning environments

Developing new approaches to the evaluation of physical learning environments: A return to the origins of post-occupancy evaluation in environmental psychology

Dandenong High School: The Architecture of Regeneration

The other half of the picture: Post-occupancy evaluation for alignment of space and pedagogy

Tipping Points in Education Design: Looking Forwards, Looking Back

Learning spaces and pedagogic change: envisioned, enacted and experienced