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There are significant differences in the local and regional roles of universities in the UK. These reflect differences between the individual universities themselves and in the characteristics of their regional contexts. They reflect both differences in intentions and differences in circumstances. But there are also some similarities in the regional roles, and these arguably reflect more global trends. Universities are ‘global’ institutions in many ways, but they are all located in ‘places’ and the place impacts on the university and the university impacts on the place. The final chapter attempts to locate the universities and the places examined in this book within the wider contexts of the changing roles of universities within emerging knowledge societies and economies.
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Brennan, J., Cochrane, A., Lebeau, Y., Williams, R. (2018). Universities Making a Difference: Balancing the Global and the Local. In: The University in its Place. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1296-3_9
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