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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.4 sessions are offered: Friday 4th and Frida…

Congratulations to Dr Morgan for being awarded a Pilkington Prize by the University for his excellence, innovation and leadership in teaching. He is one of 12 winners from across the University and the only academic from Engineering to be a recipient of the award this year.  The Pilkington Prize awards were endowed and inaugurated in 1994 by Sir Al…

Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy Podcast invites academic and policy experts to share their insights into some of the major challenges society faces today. Their latest series is focused on how science advice, data and evidence are used by decision makers in government. Dr Kristen MacAskill (Centre for Sustainable Development) j…

Live online information session and Q&A for prospective MPhil students, 12th November 2021.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 on Fri 12th November at 16:30 (UK time). The session will include a pres…

The course team are undergoing final preparations to welcome 33 students from around the world, to join the 20th edition of the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. Building on our learning from delivering the course during the pandemic so far, we will be seeking to take advantage of the online sessions to provide easy access to course…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Kristen MacAskill has been recognised as one of 2021’s top 50 Women in Engineering. Founded by the Women's Engineering Society in 2016, the WE50 awards are a UK event linked to International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) – a celebration of women in engineering that takes place on 23 June each year.Dr MacAskil…

Professor Richard Fenner was awarded the Leo Jansen Best Paper award at this year’s Engineering Education for Sustainable Development conference.  Leo Jansen (1934 – 2012) was a chemical engineer, corporate researcher and planner, politician and professor.Professor Fenner’s paper, ‘Engineers as advocates for Sustainable Development: countering misi…

Two of our current MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development students have gained distinction within their respective Colleges.  Santiago Sottil’s Waste to Art initiative was unveiled by Wolfson College President, Dr Jane Clarke, and is currently on display in the Wolfson Gallery, while Han Xu’s 3-Minute Thesis presentation at Hughes Hall wo…

Below Dick Fenner and Dai Morgan reflect on how the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development has continued to operate and thrive during the pandemicJust over 12 months ago in March 2020 we had completed the 2019-20 MPhil taught programme and were about to enter the first national lockdown to contain the rapid spread of COVID-19 which was ta…

Dick Fenner and Tom Cernev address this question in a new paper recently published in Futures in March 2021 (which can be accessed at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102726)They focus specifically on four “foundational” SDGs: SDG 1 No Poverty; SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing; SDG 14: Life Below Water; and SDG 15 Life on Land as well as the…

ESD Lecturer Dr Kristen MacAskill has been featured by Turner and Townsend as part of their 'Perspectives' series, speaking about the disruption of the pandemic and the challenge of building sustainability and resilience into the recovery.The article highlights how the pandemic has forced people to think differently, creating a window of opportunit…

Read Dick Fenner's blog entry on the current state of sustainability in civil engineering at the Institution of Civil Engineer's website, where Dick explores explores progress towards sustainability in the UK construction sector. The blog is available at: https://www.icebookshop.com/What-s-new/Is-sustainability-in-civil-engineering-being-achie.asp…

A new book published by the International Water Association (IWA) on "Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications" (edited by Wang and Fu) includes a chapter based on the Dissertation of a former Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil student (2017-2018), Upeshika Heenetigala.The Chapter is entit…

Dick Fenner and Andre Serrenho have secured funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme as part of a large consortium including colleagues in Land Economy.The project will be led and co-ordinated by Dr Leon Kapetas, a former Research  Associate in the Centre for Sustainable Development who worked with Dick on Urban Flood Resilience. Le…

Live online chat for prospective MPhil students, 27th November.The University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development invites prospective students to a live online chat on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development on Fri 27th November. The chat will give you a chance to ask questions of the course staff.Two chats are offered: 9…