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Our congratulations go to Ryan DuChanois, who graduated from the ESD MPhil programme in 2017, for being awarded a prestigious Abel Wolman Fellowship by the American Water Works Association (AWWA). The Abel Wolman Fellowship supports promising students in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico pursuing advanced training and research in the field of water supp…

Dick Fenner and Malcolm Morgan have been awarded the Robert Alfred Carr Prize for their paper entitled: Spatial evaluation of the multiple benefits of sustainable drainage systems. The prize is awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers for the best paper published each year in the Journal of Water Management. The research it describes evolved f…

Dr Kristen MacAskill gave her inaugural lecture for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development this March as part of a two lecture series in the Resilience and Hazard Mitigation in Future Cities (ESD 360) module. Dr Kristen MacAskill is a thought leader in Resilience, and recently featured in a Discovery Channel documentaries on disasters…

Dr André Serrenho gave his inaugural lecture for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development this February, as part of the Innovations in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing course (ESD 560).Dr Serrenho is at the forefront of research in the field of Industrial Ecology and shared his insights on the field, drawing on his research in plast…

Dick Fenner has compiled and edited a special themed edition of the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions A Journal on urban flood resilience, published in February 2020.Details can be found at doi:  10.1098/rsta/375/2168. The edition brings together the work of the UKs  urban flood resilience consortium  with contributions describing similar …

Dick Fenner and Charles Ainger have recently updated their 2006 paper (co-authored with Peter Guthrie and Heather Cruickshank) "Widening engineering horizons: addressing the complexity of sustainable development" to examine how much progress towards sustainability the civil engineering profession has made in each of the eight key areas defined in…

We are delighted to welcome Dr. André Serrenho to the course team. Dr. Serrenho was recently appointed as a Lecturer in Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development at the Department of Engineering.Previously Dr. André Cabrera Serrenho had been working as a Senior Research Associate as part of the Useless group. André holds a PhD from the U…

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kristen MacAskill to the course team. Dr MacAskill was recently appointed as a Lecturer in Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development at the Department of Engineering.This follows 2.5 years as Course Director for the Construction Engineering Master's programme, a part-time programme also hosted by the Depar…

Two new lecturers have been appointed to support the delivery of the ESD MPhil programme.They are Dr Kristen MacAskill, a former alumni of the MPhil, who has developed new concepts around infrastructure resilience in post disaster recovery contexts, and Dr André Cabrera Serrenho who works on the identification of opportunities for energy and materi…

The current group of Engineering for Sustainable Development students completed the Autumn Trip led, as always, by Professor Jeremy Purseglove.The theme of the visits to locations for HS2, and road schemes at Winchester and Stonehenge is to study the complex relationship between transport systems and landscape. Jeremy Purseglove, who is well known…

Professor Dick Fenner and his co-authors Dr Lan Hoag (IBM) and Maggie Skandarian (Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, USA) have been highly commended in the Outstanding Paper Award by the Journal of Flood Risk Management. The paper is "A conceptual approach for evaluating the multiple benefits of urban flood management practices", published …

From the 28th – 31st May, FIBE doctoral researcher Francesca O'Hanlon attended the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering for Development symposium. The theme of the symposium was ‘WASHing Away Inequalities’.The event was held in Mexico City, and brought together early-stage academics and practitioners from the WASH sector to discu…

Dr Dai Morgan supported the 3rd ISA Lab workshop, hosted by Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaThe ISA Lab programme is designed to bring together students and teachers of sustainable development to share knowledge and perspectives, whilst work on real challenges in a intensive residential workshop environment. The aim of the workshop, led by Javie…

Dr Tim Forman has been sharing insights on sustainability in the built environment in practitioner forumsIn March 2019, Tim spoke at FutureBuild, which is a built environment exhibition and conference attended this year by nearly 30,000 people. Tim's talk, titled 'Existing buildings, future challenges', examined the implications of planetary limits…

New appointments join the Centre for Sustainable Development in 2019Two new staff were appointed to the Centre in 2019, to help with the smooth running of the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development.Madeline Woodruff (Msc) joined us as Course Administrator having previously worked at the International Energy Agency and the US National Acad…