Events

The transdisciplinary workplace research (TWR) network welcomes both academic and professional researchers to submit their abstracts for presentation at her bi-annual conferences on work environment research.

Submission of abstracts in all areas of work environment is encouraged. These conferences aim to bring together work environment researchers from all relevant disciplines, both from academia and practice. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Physical work environment (e.g. real estate, architecture and design, building physics (HVCSE), bio-technology, etc.),
• Social work environment (e.g. human resource management, behavioural sciences, organisational science, business, health, environmental psychology, etc.),
• Digital work environment (e.g. ICT, virtual reality, etc.), and
• Work environment management (e.g. management, economics, facilities management, corporate real estate management, etc.).

Presentations can focus on an individual, organisational or urban scale.

The conferences provide delegates insight in both current topics and future interests. During two days of parallel sessions, research findings from many different perspectives are discussed with the audience of researchers from around the world. Presenters are expected to submit a short paper (max 3500 words, excluding references) or a poster if their abstract is accepted. The short papers will be reviewed by the scientific committee. All short papers are published in proceedings made available at the conference and open source online.

Besides parallel sessions, the conferences also provide the opportunity to discuss further enhancement of the field in special sessions/workshops aimed at jointly identifying future roadmaps for related sub-themes. These sessions will provide the opportunity for participants to develop transdisciplinary, international research initiatives. Also, pre- and post-conference excursions are organised for participants to visit local innovative workplaces, and an attractive social program is available for further networking.

Next conference

The TWR2022 conference will be held from 7-10 September 2022 and is hosted by Politecnico di Milano in Italy. For further information and the call for abstracts/papers, visit https://www.rec.polimi.it/twr-2022/ .

Past conferences

• TWR 2020 hybrid in Frankfurt and online (16-19 September). Here you can find the TWR2020_Daily_Sessions Program and the TWR_Conference-Proceedings2020_final.pdf.
• TWR2018 in Tampere, Finland (19-21 September) – Here you can find the TWR 2018 Program and the TWR 2018 Proceedings . The full paper proceedings are not open source and can be requested from the network chair.

Workplace topics

TWR encourages both transdisciplinary and monodisciplinary workplace research that extends theories and/or improves practices. It can be fundamental scientific research or applied research. A list of possible topics that are likely to be discussed at TWR conferences includes, but is not limited to:

Social issues, such as:

• Safety, health, wellbeing and productivity
• Workplace culture and leadership
• Work patterns and activities
• Interaction and/or concentration
• The future of knowledge work
• Privacy
• Activity Based/New Ways of Working

Technology issues, such as:

• Telecommuting
• Virtual offices
• Smart building technology
• Workplace sensoring
• Mobile working

Physical issues, such as:

• Ergonomics
• Distributed workplaces
• Co-working spaces
• Office space quality
• Flexibility
• Collaborative spaces

Management issues, such as:

• Workplace Key Performance indicators
• Managing workplace support processes
• Sustainable workplace
• Effectiveness and efficiency
• Strategic workplace management
• The sharing economy
• Workplace and employer branding