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The ESD MPhil Students had a successful visit at Potton Company on Monday 27th of April 2015. Potton Kingspan is a leader company that assembles timber-based structural systems, delivering architectural design and high performance energy efficient solutions into private sector. On the visit the students were received by Mark Stevenson-Managing Dire…

Tom Niven's (ESD 14 -15) change challenge this year was to assess if a worm farm could be used to recycle organic kitchen waste at his College and create compost for the College gardens. An article introducing the project and outlining his findings can be found in the Christs's College Newsletter "Pieces."See page 7: https://issuu.com/christsalumni…

Dr Fenner and Dr Cruickshank recently accepted an invitation to visit SouthEast University In Nanjing, China where they explored a number of areas of possible collaboration with CUED's  Centre for Sustainable Development. These discussions involved the development of joint research proposals, help with setting up new Masters programmes in sustainab…

Samantha Passmore, a current ESD MPhil student, has won an Arthur Shercliff Travel Scholarship 2015. She will be using the award to  travel to Honduras to investigate the viability of converting the business model of Water Expertise and Training (WET) Centres run by the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology  (CAWST) from a charity t…

The ESD MPhil students had a successful fieldtrip looking at alternative technolgies in Mid Wales. They visited the Severn Trent Water anaerobic digestion plant Coleshill, Rheidol Wind Farm, Centre for Alternative Technology,  Rhiedol Hydro and Ironbridge Biomass Power station. They met entrepreneurs from Surechill (Cooling technology) and Dulas (s…

PhD student and ESD MPhil Alumni (09-10) Luca Di Mario has an article published in "The Scholar" in which he explains why businesses should get involved in waste recovery in the developing world.See more at: http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/wealth-waste

PhD student and ESD MPhil alumni (11-12) Stephanie Hirmer has an article published in "Research Horizons." The article "Extreme Sleepover: Keeping the lights on in rural Uganda"  (page 34, issue 26)  talks about her PhD research looking at the locals real needs and desires as a key element in overcoming the lack of technology uptake in rural Uganda…

Thank you to Guiseppe, Fotis, Taskeen and Vincent who planted our first trees at Bin Brook Meadow, Coton on Saturday. They planted cherry and crab apple trees despite the snow!Photo credit: Cruickshank

ESD MPhil students took part in a Role play exercise in December. One group looked at the issues surrounding the generation of renewable energy on the Severn Estuary and the other group looked at the Rogun Hydropower Project in Tajikistan.Photo credit: Repetto/ Owen

Many thanks to the current ESD students who came to start clearing Bin Brook Meadow on the Coton Reserve on Saturday 8th November. We had good fun battling brambles, hawthorn etc and making bonfires. Thanks also to Geoff Morgan (ESD MPhil 2011-12) as our alumni representative. Photo credit: CruickshankFor more information about the Coton Reserve se…

Welcome to Arman who has recently joined the Centre as a Research Associate working with Dr Heather Cruickshank on an EPSRC/DFID/DECC funded project: “Energy and Low Income Tropical Housing” (EP/L002604/1). The project intends to “identify, and then begin to propagate, methods of reducing the energy consumption of low-income housing in tropical cou…

Dick Fenner and  Lan Hoang recently attended the International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD 2014) in Kuching, Malaysia in September; read all about their experience in the ICUD blogPhoto taken from  The University of Nottingham Website

Congratulations to the 2014 ESD MPhil cohort who handed in their dissertations on Firdy 29th August.Photo credit: Owen

Congratulations to the ESD MPhil students who handed in their dissertations on Friday 29th August!

Well done to the ESD MPhil students for completing their dissertations on time!