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CSH featured in Guardian article

CSH featured in Guardian article

13 May 2013

Dr Katherine Curran, Research Associate at CSH, recently spoke about the project 'Heritage Smells!' at the Museums Showoff.

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CSH PhD Student wins prize at UCL Digital Humanities workshop

CSH PhD Student wins prize at UCL Digital Humanities workshop

10 May 2013

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 ...

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Results! Graduate School Bursaries for the Cheltenham Science Festival 2013

Results! Graduate School Bursaries for the 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 ...

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CIBSE Building Simulation Group Student Prize awarded

CIBSE Building Simulation Group 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 ...

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LET Award

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 ...

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Street mobility and network accessibility: towards tools for overcoming barriers to walking amongst older people

Street mobility and network accessibility: towards tools for overcoming barriers to walking amongst older people

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 ...

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The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting and social context in providing access

The suburban food basket: the role of spatial setting and social context in providing access

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 ...

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Urban Migration Film Festival Report published

Urban Migration Film Festival Report published

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 ...

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Media Architecture Biennale 2012

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 ...

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EDE Crystal site visit

EDE Crystal site visit


On Tuesday evening (28/11/12), MSc Environmental Design and Engineering (EDE) students visited the brand new Crystal building on the West end of Royal Victoria dock, right by the North side of ...

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Bartlett School of Graduate Studies announces new MRes in Advanced Architectural Studies

Bartlett School of Graduate Studies announces new MRes in Advanced Architectural Studies

Available from October 2013, the new MRes in Advanced Architectural Studies is centred on furthering the understanding of architecture and urban design as instruments in the development of society. The course offers a ...

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Vince Cable launches Impact Acceleration Accounts at Bartlett School of Graduate Studies spin off Space Syntax

Vince Cable launches Impact Acceleration Accounts at Bartlett School of Graduate Studies spin off Space Syntax


Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills announced the launch of Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs), of which UCL is the second largest recipient, at a value of nearly £4.5 ...

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Dr. Kayvan Karimi Guest Editor

Dr. Kayvan Karimi Guest Editor

Dr. Kayvan Karimi, Senior lecturer at the Space Group and director of MRes AAS course, has edited the last issue of Urban Design International (UDI) journal (Volume 17, Number 14, Winter 2012). The ...

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First Bartlett MRes Conference

First Bartlett MRes Conference

on Friday September 21st, the Bartlett was home to its first MRes Conference, drawing from the CASA, Energy Institute, and the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies MRes courses, the day provided a showcase ...

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Architectural Phenomena exhibition

Architectural Phenomena exhibition

The Architectural Phenomena Exhibition presents the outcome of the work of students for the Architectural Phenomena module in the Advanced Architectural Studies MSc (AAS). The module addresses issues of space, form, perception, cognition ...

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Journal of Space Syntax - new volume

Journal of Space Syntax - new volume

As the summer is coming to an end and the start of the new academic year is approaching, we are pleased to announce the first Issue of Volume 3 of the Journal of ...

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Olympic Opening Ceremony - creating the iconic map of London

Olympic Opening Ceremony - creating the iconic map of London

Urban planning and design company Space Syntax has created the giant map of London’s street network which formed an iconic part of the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition DCC'2012

Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition DCC'2012

Mr Tamer El-Khouly and Miss Deborah Benros (BSGS-PhD Candidates) have
organised a workshop in the Fifth International Conference on Design
Computing and Cognition DCC'2012 - taking place in College Station,
Texas, USA

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EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant (DTG)

EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant (DTG)

Applications are now invited for two 3 year EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant (DTG) studentships available for UK/EU candidates starting on the PhD programme in October 2012 at the Bartlett School of Graduate ...

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1st Annual Bartlett School of Graduate Studies PhD Conference 2012

1st Annual Bartlett School of Graduate Studies PhD Conference 2012

On Thursday 24th May 2012, the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and the UCL EngD Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation held its 1st Annual Conference. The conference sought to celebrate the ...

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Experiencing research fieldwork through suburban tour-guiding EPSRC Inclusion Award

Experiencing research fieldwork through suburban tour-guiding EPSRC Inclusion Award

Project description

This project, running for one year from 1st April 2012 involves local community activists in the suburban cases being studied by the EPSRC-funded UCL Adaptable Suburbs project  (ref: EP/I001212/1 ...

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HERITAGE CONSERVATOR WINS 2012 PLOWDEN MEDAL

HERITAGE CONSERVATOR WINS 2012 PLOWDEN MEDAL


Professor May Cassar ACR FIIC FRSA FSA has been awarded the Royal Warrant Holder Association’s 2012 Plowden Medal in recognition of her enduring commitment to improving the professional standing of heritage conservation ...

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Ar-CHI-tecture workshop

Ar-CHI-tecture workshop

The AR-CHI-TECTURE workshop held as part of the ACM SIGCHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (the premier international conference on human-computer interaction).

Tasos Varoudis, research associate at the Bartlett School ...

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UCL Urban Migration Film Festival

UCL Urban Migration Film Festival


Prof Laura Vaughan has just published the summary report on the UCL Urban Migration Film Festival.