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The Bartlett School of Planning’s Inaugural Postgraduate Careers Evening

<br /> On Thursday 11th February the Bartlett School of Planning held its inaugural postgraduate careers evening. The focus of the event was an interactive panel session where planning graduates working in a range of different careers outlined their current role and working experiences. This was followed by a question and answer session and a drinks reception with the chance for informal networking. The aim of the evening was to highlight some of the opportunities open to BSP graduates. The event was well attended with many questions and some lively discussions taking place during the reception.

[ posted: 12 March 2010 | 10:35 am]
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Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones contributes to major government land-use report

A new approach to managing the UK's land will be vital to meet the challenges of the 21st century, according to the latest report from Foresight, the Government's futures think tank.

[ posted: 9 March 2010 | 3:27 pm]
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SINTROPHER launches!

For a few months now SINTROPHER* has been quietly bubbling away in Room 4.04 Wates House.

[ posted: 19 February 2010 | 3:24 pm]
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BSP's launches inaugural Research Images competition

Following the success of the UCL Research Image Competition, the Bartlett School of Planning this year organised their own contest, open to BSP PhD students. Nine entries were received, and Prof. Mark Tewdwr-Jones (Bartlett School of Planning) and Dr Yeoryia Manolopoulou (Bartlett School of Architecture) kindly agreed to judge the contest. The winning entry, entitled ‘The Naked Gallery’ by Juliana Martins, was announced at the BSP Christmas lunch on Friday 11^th December.

[ posted: 1 February 2010 | 11:18 am]
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UCL awards Bridging the Gaps funding for a BSP-based project on ‘Rethinking urban sustainability’

Dr Quentin Stevens has been awarded a total of £4861.00 from the UCL Bridging the Gaps programme for the project 'Rethinking urban sustainability: new approaches to the re-use of formerly industrial spaces'. This cross-disciplinary project involves collaboration with Professor Matthew Gandy of UCL Geography and researcher Dr Amanda Claremont. The project will focus on visitor perceptions and use of new, 'naturalistic' public open spaces built in former industrial landscapes, in light of varied and changing understandings of ecological sustainability. The proposed case studies are former factories and railway and motorway corridors in Seoul, New York, Amsterdam, Dortmund and London. The project links to Dr Stevens's current work, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which examines artificial city beaches throughout Germany. The new funding will be used to prepare a large grant application to the Economic and Social Research Council in mid-2010. <br />

[ posted: 21 January 2010 | 3:50 pm]
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Bartlett School of Planning student wins UCL Research Image competition

This year’s UCL Graduate School Research Image competition has been won by George Carothers, a student on the MSc International Planning. George’s photograph, ‘Appreciating informality’ was adjudged to be the best from all those submitted by both academic staff and research students. The judges of the competition were Professor Stephen Hart, Dept of Spanish & Latin American Studies (Chair), Dr Joe Cain, Dept of Science & Technology Studies, Dr Penelope Haralambidou, Bartlett School of Architecture, Dr Petra Lange-Berndt, Dept of History of Art and Dr Julie Olszewski, Cancer Institute & Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research.

[ posted: 18 December 2009 | 3:39 pm]
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Bartlett School of Planning student wins prestigious RICS prize

Selwyn Atkinson, a 3^rd year student on the BSc Urban Planning, Design and Management has been awarded a prestigious prize from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Selwyn was nominated for the RICS London and South East Student Awards 2010 by his tutor, Dr Jung Won Sonn and will be presented with his award at a ceremony to be held in March 2010. The event will be attended by other prize winners, their guests, industry representatives and university representatives from the 12 partner universities of RICS across London and the South East. Selwyn was put forward for the award, firstly because he had scored consistently high marks in his first and second year of study and secondly because he was deemed to have excellent presentation skills and a hardworking attitude.

[ posted: 2 December 2009 | 12:30 pm]
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Prof. Yvonne Rydin marks 2 years as the Co-Director of the UCL Environment Institute

I have been Co-Director of the UCL Environment Institute since October 2007 at the invitation of Professor Mark Maslin. It has been a great opportunity to build networks across the college on the theme of cities and climate change. The first year the focus was on open networking but last session we ran a series of seminars on Megalopolises and Sustainability. The final report from this series in the last stages of preparation and should be launched early in 2010. This will synthesise the results of 18 hours of discussion with 21 presentations and over 70 participants.

[ posted: 10 November 2009 | 10:21 am]
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The Bartlett School of Planning scores highly in a survey of the Student Learning Experience

The UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) recently carried out a survey of the student experience in the Bartlett School of Planning. Sixty-three students responded to the survey and five of these were involved in a focus group to discuss the findings in more detail.

[ posted: 6 November 2009 | 11:41 am]
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