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We are delighted to announce the arrival of Dr Louise Elstow as the newest member of teaching staff on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. Louise is an interdisciplinary social scientist and resilience consultant. Since 2008 she has been working with partners across a range of sectors and countries to plan for and respond to crise…

The University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development invites prospective students to a live online information session on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. The session will include a presentation on the course and will give you a chance to ask questions of the course staff.Two sessions are offered: Friday 14th Novemb…

In order to help new applicants to the ESD MPhil, the course team has created some guidance on how to prepare a cover letter for inclusion in an application.  This can be found under the Prospective Students and How to Applysection of the website here.

The University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development invites prospective students to a live online information session on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. The session will include a presentation on the course and will give you a chance to ask questions of the course staff.Four sessions are offered, with morning and …

A design proposed by ESD MPhil students Jerrell Ong and Sebastian Lindner-Liaw, working with colleague Eric Tay, has the potential to reduce the energy costs and water consumption involved in cooling data centres in the Global South. The design by Terracotta Cooling would make use of locally sourced and produced terracotta cylinders to aid in cooli…

MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development students Ryuta Kuniyoshi and Jocelin Wijaya, together with Cambridge MBA candidate Daisuke Nishizawa, took the second runner-up place at the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Impact Investing Challenge 2024 Grand Finale, in Washington, D.C., after securing a top three position in the Challeng…

We will be closing applications for the 2024-25 cohort on the 16th of May this year due to the high number of applications already received.  Please be sure that all documents - including references - are upoaded by this date.

ESD MPhil lecturer Edoardo Borgomeo of the Centre for Sustainable Development was one of the lead authors of the 2024 Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership report People and Planet: Addressing the Interlinked Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in Asia and the Pacific. This is the annual flagship publication of the SDG partnership promoted by t…

The University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development invites prospective students to a live online information session on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. The session will include a presentation on the course and will give you a chance to ask questions of the course staff.Four sessions are offered, with morning and …

The Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil is one of the courses that is eligible for funding under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Cambridge.The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is designed to provide talented students from economically marginalised and hard-to-reach communities in Africa with fully-funded opportunities …

A new blog article by Professor Richard Fenner, released in conjunction with the release of the fully-revised second edition Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice by Fenner, Ainger and Sykes, highlights a range of critical issues that must be overcome in developing sustainable infrastructure systems that deliver essential services in…

Professor Richard Fenner, Charles Ainger and former Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil student Judith Sykes have recently released the updated second edition of their book Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice with ICE Publishing.The book is a practical handbook to help engineers deliver sustainable responses to the urgent…

A new study by Dr André Cabrera Serrenho and Dr Yunhu Gao has mapped the global flows of fertilisers and their emissions.  Their work, featured in February’s Nature Food, has established that the production and use of nitrogen fertilisers accounts for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions and that around two-thirds of emissions from fertilisers occ…

The Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil is one of the courses that is eligible for funding under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Cambridge.The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is designed to provide talented students from economically marginalised and hard-to-reach communities in Africa with fully-funded opportunities …

The University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development invites prospective students to a live online information session on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. The session will include a presentation on the course and will give you a chance to ask questions of the course staff.Two new sessions are being offered on Friday…