Graduate Studies News http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/gs-news/rss The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies is the source of some of the most outstanding minds and most influential research in the field of the built environment. Our work tackles some of the greatest challenges facing mankind, in areas such as health, sustainable cities and human well-being. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. admin 2011-07-14T11:49:35Z Digital Grass Exhibition http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/digital_grass The project ‘Digital Grass’ initially developed by MSc AAC students Deyan  Nenov, Ivana Petrusevski, Catherine Cornu, Khaled ElAshry and Nazli Kok as part of their 'City as Interface' module is currently being exhibited at the V&A as part of the 'Digital Futures exhibition at V&A and UPLondon and Digital Shoreditch The project ‘Digital Grass’ project previously won an Urban Prototyping Open Call and will be on display at Digital Shorditch from the 20-27 May 2013. The Project focuses on the communication and connectivity of locations in interactive and playful ways using tactile sensing and light signals. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-05-23T12:00:51Z Connecting through space - Call for Design Submissions http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/connecting_through_space How can connecting people through public space promote social connection and wellbeing? The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-05-23T09:58:49Z Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/fulong-wu-esrc-award Fulong Wu , Professor of Planning at The Bartlett, was awarded first prize in the Outstanding International Impact category by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on 14 May. He received a trophy along with £10,000 to promote the economic and social impact of research. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-05-17T15:31:08Z CSH featured in Guardian article http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/csh_guardian_article Dr Katherine Curran, Research Associate at CSH, recently spoke about the project 'Heritage Smells!' at the Museums Showoff. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-05-13T14:26:42Z CSH PhD Student wins prize at UCL Digital Humanities workshop http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/ucl-connections-project George Neris, PhD student at the Centre for Sustainable Heritage, leads the project ‘UCL Connections’, which recently won £5,000 at the Digital Humanities prize workshop in April 2013. The workshop was organised by the Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction at UCL and was the conclusion of the UCL’s Digital Humanities Month. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-05-10T14:41:03Z Results! Graduate School Bursaries for the Cheltenham Science Festival 2013 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/graduate_school_bursaries_cheltenham_science_festival_2013 We are delighted to announce that the Head of the Graduate School, Professor David Bogle, has considered the nominations put forward by divisions/departments for a Graduate School Bursary to attend the Cheltenham Science Festival ( http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science ) in June and has awarded £600 bursaries to each of the 10 research and taught graduate students listed below.  Professor Bogle was impressed with the quality of the applications submitted and hopes that the students will both contribute to and benefit greatly from the Festival. Winners Sophie ATKINSON CoMPLEX Emily BURNS Cancer Research UK Anna GOULD Chemistry Madeline GRADE Brain Sciences Josep GRAU-BOVE Bartlett School of Graduate Studies Holly HOLMES Medical Physics and Bioengineering Maeve McMAHON Biosciences David ROBERTSON Cognitive Neuroscience Carolina SOTO-PALMA Genetics, Evolution and Environment Roselle THOREAU Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-04-24T14:24:28Z CIBSE Building Simulation Group Student Prize awarded http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/student_prize_awarded CIBSE Building Simulation Group Student Prize awarded to BSGS EDE MSc Student Yair Schwartz "Yair Schwartz from University College London has won the first Building Simulation Group Student Prize.He scooped the £1,000 award for his dissertation,titled Variations in results of different building energy simulation tools and their impact on BREEAM and LEED ratings: A case study.The CIBSE Building Simulation Group Student Prize2012 was awarded for the best research project at Master’ degree level or equivalent, which includes a major element on the development or application of building simulation tools. The 2012 prize, open to students from UK and overseas universities, was the first to be awarded by the group. This year’s prize focused on the ‘validity of building performance simulation. The prize will be presented at an upcoming CIBSE BSG event to be held in June at UCL" Additional news is featured in the CIBSE Journal Article (January Issue): http://www.cibsejournal.com/archive/2013-01/ The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-04-15T14:25:12Z LET Award http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/let_award The Lighting Education Trust (LET) is a charity that supports lighting education and at there AGM on 21/03/13 they presented Kevin Mansfield, course director for the Bartlett Light and Lighting MSc programme a cheque for £25,000.  This payment is just the latest part of many years of continuous support that the Light and Lighting course has received from the charity. For more information see: http://www.lightingeducationtrust.org The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-04-15T14:15:02Z Communications Internship at The Bartlett http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/comms-internship Are you interested in a career in communications? Have you got excellent written and verbal communication skills, an eye for a newsworthy story, and an interest in digital communications channels?

 The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-04-10T15:00:36Z Street mobility and network accessibility: towards tools for overcoming barriers to walking amongst older people http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/street_mobility A group of interdisciplinary scholars at UCL has recently received funding from EPSRC/ESRC/AHRC for a three-year 'Design for Wellbeing' study that aims to develop tools for overcoming community severance (CS). CS occurs where transport infrastructure or the speed or volume of traffic act as a physical or psychological barrier to the movement of people. Such barriers are worse in older and other vulnerable groups, for whom mobility and social ties are fundamental to good health. The aim of our proposal is to develop methods to assess CS at the individual, street and area-wide level to enable research into the effects on mobility, wellbeing and health. The project team comprises experts in transport engineering and policy, scheme appraisal, geography, urban design, space syntax, epidemiology, public health, anthropology, community engagement, statistics and modelling, as follows: Dr Jennifer Mindell, Professor Nora Groce and Dr Shaun Scholes (Department of Epidemiology & Public Health); Professor Peter Jones, Professor Muki Haklay and Dr Shepley Orr (Faculty of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering); Professor Laura Vaughan (Bartlett School of Graduate Studies). The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-04-03T09:54:25Z The Bartlett academics to play role in new UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/bartlett-nature-engineering The announcement of a new Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering at UCL, will bring leading engineers and scientists together to address some of the major engineering challenges facing the world. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-03-26T10:47:37Z Call for Papers: Special Issue on Designing Intelligent School Buildings: What do we know? http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/call_for_papers-designing_intelligent_school_buildings The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-03-22T16:56:34Z The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting and social context in providing access http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/suburban_food_basket Professor Laura Vaughan, Bartlett Space Group, BSGS; Dr Jennifer Mindell and Dr Shaun Scholes from the UCL Health and Social Surveys Research Group (HSSRG) and Dr Angela Donkin, from the UCL Institute of Health Equity have recently been awarded a UCL Grand Challenges grant for an interdisciplinary project to study 'The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting and social context in providing access to healthy food'. The team will explore how both the availability and costs of healthy food baskets vary across spatial location, socio-economic position, and religion or culture. We will carry out research over the next few months with pupils from two neighbouring schools in a suburban area in London with contrasting catchment populations. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-03-13T12:17:42Z The Bartlett announces £110k worth of masters scholarships http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/masters-scholarships The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment is offering MSc, MA or MArch students 20 scholarships, each worth £5,000, to be used as partial fee remittance for study in 2013/14. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-03-04T14:40:10Z The Bartlett amongst leading academics, businesses and entrepreneurs on Mayor’s “Smart London’ board http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/smart-london The Mayor’s Office today announced the board, which is made up of ‘a top line-up of experts’ and includes Prof. Alan Penn , Dean of The Bartlett and Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing and Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith , Director and Deputy Chair of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-03-04T14:12:38Z Ant ballet and PhD theme tunes: The Bartlett Showoff Round Two http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/bartlett-showoff-2 Back by popular demand, The Bartlett Showoff once again took to the stage last Tuesday to showcase some of faculty’s most exciting and extrovert students, staff and research through a range of talks, songs and performances. With compere Ella Murray, a paleoanthropology PhD student from UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, CASA’s Hannah Fry (winner of the Provost’s Public Engager of the Year award), launched straight into the weird and wonderful, talking about her research on ‘Optimal Immunisation Strategies and the Mathematical Classification of Sexual Contact Networks’. The evening continued with performances from Josep Grau-Bove of the Centre for Sustainable Heritage, Prof. Michael Hebbert of BSP with songs about urban climatology and design, along with insights into the research of BSA’s Ollie Palmer and his fascinating ‘Ant Ballet’. Closing the proceedings, UCL-Energy PhD student Mike Fell helped to answer the immortal question, what is the perfect PhD theme tune? Look out for our next event in the new academic year, with our new look! The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Tatevik Sargsyan 2013-02-27T13:07:36Z EIB and The Bartlett to cooperate on new infrastructure finance course http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/EIB-and-the-bartlett The European Investment Bank and The Bartlett have agreed to work together to support a new post-graduate course in Infrastructure Investment and Finance. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-02-26T15:06:01Z The Bartlett's Wates House to undergo a £12m refurbishment http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/wates-house-refurb Wates House, the current home of The Bartlett School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Planning is set to undergo a £12m refurbishment, starting in July 2013. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-02-21T12:04:59Z Celebrating Chinese New Year: A Q&A session for prospective students http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/chinese-new-year To start off the year of the snake, here at The Bartlett we are offering prospective Chinese students the opportunity to pose questions about studying and living in London to two of our current students through an online question and answer session. The Q&A will be led by students Yang Huang from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit , and Shaohua Chai from the UCL Energy Institute . Whether you have general questions about life in London or specific questions related to a particular course, this is a great opportunity to find out directly from current students who have already experienced the application process and life at The Bartlett. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-02-13T12:13:37Z Urban Migration Film Festival Report published http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/urban-migration-film-festival-report Professor Laura Vaughan and the UCL Environment Institute have just published a report which summarises the discussions which took place at the 2012 UCL Urban Migration Film Festival and Symposium. A gathering of participants from a range of backgrounds in academic and practice-related fields of migration and film studies as well as many students and the general public took part in the event. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2013-02-12T16:46:22Z Latest UCL Built Environment Club launched in Singapore http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/bec-singapore The Director of Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Lay Bee Yap was joined by UCL Vice Provost (International) Prof Michael Worton , The Bartlett’s Prof Alexi Marmot and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering Nick Tyler , in welcoming guests at the recent launch of the Singapore UCL Built Environment Club. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-02-05T14:32:54Z First Singapore-based students graduate from MSc Facility and Environment Management http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/singapore-graduation On Friday, the first ever cohort of students to take the MSc programme in Facility and Environment Management in Singapore graduated at a ceremony hosted jointly by UCL and Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA). The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-01-28T12:24:43Z The Bartlett spin off Space Syntax to play key role in making Glasgow a ‘city of the future’ http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/glasgow-space-syntax The Bartlett spin off company, Space Syntax , will play a major role in Glasgow’s development as a ‘city of the future’, following today’s announcement of a £24 million of government investment for the city to host the ‘Future Cities Demonstrator’ by Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts. The Glasgow ‘Future Cities Demonstrator’ aims to determine how cities in the future should function, and will address some of the city’s most pressing needs, including health, energy supply and improvements to travel infrastructure and mobility. Using research methods developed at The Bartlett to map and analyse the current condition of Glasgow’s active travel network, Space Syntax will identify and map the active and sustainable modes of transport across the city to increase the number of everyday journeys made by walking or cycling, and reduce traffic and pollution, making a significant impact on the development of ‘Active Travel’ in the city, a key component of the Scottish Government Health Programme to improve life expectancy in Scotland. Welcoming the announcement, Dean of The Bartlett and a director of Space Syntax, Professor Alan Penn said “This expresses great confidence in the city's ability to invest £24 million in a project which must deliver tangible benefits using new technologies in just under 24 months time. If Glasgow, a city with a great culture and heritage, can use new technologies to restore its former position on the world stage, then that will be a demonstrator worth having. He added, “UCL research will be playing a role to help make this a success as Space Syntax Limited are involved in the project bringing their expertise in advanced spatial analysis and simulation to bear on the challenges faced by the city” Iain Gray, Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board, which made today’s award commented:

“The global market for innovative approaches to delivering efficient, attractive and resilient cities is growing, and UK companies – supported by our world-class academic and research base – are well-positioned to exploit it. This large-scale demonstrator will show just what can be achieved by innovative use of today’s technology, and will help UK companies develop solutions and technologies for the future, for the benefit of the UK economy.” Read more about Space Syntax’s involvement in the Glasgow Future Cities Demonstrator. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Brigid C B Marriott 2013-01-25T15:07:31Z The Bartlett to play an active role in the new UCL STEM policy department http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/news/The-Bartlett-policy-department UCL recently announced the opening of a new department focussed on the interface between science, technology, engineering, maths (STEM) and policy, as well as an associated interdisciplinary research institute, in September 2013. The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Emma Todd 2013-01-25T12:02:42Z Media Architecture Biennale 2012 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/news/media-architecture-biennale-2012 On November 15th-17th leading architects, artists, scholars, and industry from all over the Globe met up in Aarhus, Denmark to shape the media architecture of the future, and to discuss how media architecture is about to change cities. The biennale, which was a big success, is a joint project between CAVI at Aarhus University and the Media Architecture Institute Vienna / Sydney. Ava Fatah gen schieck from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies /MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation, was invited as a member on the organizing committee and a co-chair on the Media Architecture Conference. She was acted among others as a judge and a jury member for the Media Architecture Biennale 2012 student design challenge . and for the outstanding Media Architecture Projects awards . The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment. Craig D Daraz 2012-12-18T11:43:36Z