enthusiasm and available resources and to identify real-life entry points within the constraints of the existing organizational culture. Organizationally, the work was structured in a number of ways. Contributions to corporate and parallel initiatives The Project Coordinator and Project Steering Group carried out or supervised a number of opportunistic pieces of work, enabling the project to contribute to ongoing or planned institutional initiatives. In addition, the Project Coordinator has sat on both the Environment Committee and Ethics Committee, facilitating the integration of a health perspective into broader University structures. Task groups For several specific pieces of work, short-term task groups were established to achieve defined outcomes. Working groups Four issues were identified as appropriate foci for longer term Project working groups: sexual health, healthy and sustainable building design, transport and mental wellbeing. The selection was made pragmatically concerning relevance, interest and expertise, opportunities and resources and the groups were set up sequentially, to avoid overload. – Sexual health The Sexual Health Working Group was established in April 1996 in – acknowledgement of the clear relevance of sexual health issues to the University setting, in recognition that the University had not previously demonstrated a corporate commitment to addressing the issues and in response to offers from key external agencies keen to invest resources in the University. Healthy and sustainable building design The Healthy & Sustainable Building Design Working Group was initially convened in June 1996 following discussions between the Project Coordinator and Property Services which concluded that there – was substantial scope for developing and implementing a health and
enthusiasm and available resources and to identify real-life entry points within the constraints of the existing organizational culture. Organizationally, the work was structured in a number of ways. Contributions to corporate and parallel initiatives The Project Coordinator and Project Steering Group carried out or supervised a number of opportunistic pieces of work, enabling the project to contribute to ongoing or planned institutional initiatives. In addition, the Project Coordinator has sat on both the Environment Committee and Ethics Committee, facilitating the integration of a health perspective into broader University structures. Task groups For several specific pieces of work, short-term task groups were established to achieve defined outcomes. Working groups Four issues were identified as appropriate foci for longer term Project working groups: sexual health, healthy and sustainable building design, transport and mental wellbeing. The selection was made pragmatically concerning relevance, interest and expertise, opportunities and resources – and the groups were set up sequentially, to avoid overload. Sexual health The Sexual Health Working Group was established in April 1996 – in acknowledgement of the clear relevance of sexual health issues to the University setting, in recognition that the University had not previously demonstrated a corporate commitment to addressing the issues and in response to offers from key external agencies keen to invest resources in the University. Healthy and sustainable building design The Healthy & Sustainable Building Design Working Group was initially convened in June 1996 following discussions between the Project Coordinator and Property Services – which concluded that there was substantial scope for developing and implementing a health and
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