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Garrett Bray, ESD MPhil 16-17, has won support from the Boak Student Support Fund at Clare Hall College.Garrett will use the award to support his ESD MPhil dissertation research into electric and automnomous vehicles. He will conduct interviews with industry experts in Silicon Valley to test and refine bottom-up economic models for a system of sha…

Dr Jay Golden, ESD MPhil 02-03, has been selected as Vice Chancellor of research, economic development and engagement at East Carolina University, USA. "East Carolina University has selected Dr. Jay Golden as vice chancellor of research, economic development and engagement. His appointment, effective June 30, was approved by the Board of Trustees d…

Volunteer Voices: Key Insights from International Development Experiences Edited by Duncan McNicholl, PhD Student, Centre for Sustainable DevleopmentText taken from: https://volunteervoices.info/‘This outstanding book asks the right questions, and is willing to explore hard answers that can lead to mutual respect and growth. It is a must read fo…

Five years, five students: 25 Cambridge-Africa scholars Taskeen Adam, who completed her ESD MPhil in 2015, is part of a PhD programme that’s enrolling five African students per year for five years, to help train world-class researchers for Africa.The following words are taken from the Research Horizons article  by Alex Bruton. For full article see…

Black soldier fly larvae help with a green food waste business Fotis is one of 4 co-founders of a Cambridge recycling technology start-up company called Entomics. The four students met at an environmental hackathon organised by Cambridge university’s entrepreneurship club and came up with the idea of turning unwanted food into animal feed by feedi…

Daniel, ESD13-14, is Graduate Sustainability Officer at Peabody Housing Association, London involved in many areas such as solar PV, renewable heat, energy efficiency and fuel poverty strategies. Daniel took part in Climathon from Climate-KIC: a 24-hour challenge to design a solution for a local climate change problem, in this case for tackling Lo…

Nafisa Bhikhoo produced a dissertation titled “Energy Efficiency in Low Income Tropical Housing: A Study into Improving Thermal Comfort in Low Income Housing Designs in Thailand through the Effective Incorporation of Passive Design Strategies” as part of her Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil in 2014-15. She worked with Supervisors Dr H…

Mara-Tafadzwa Makoni, ESD MPhil 11-12, has an article about her written by Paul Hutton in Smart Highways Magazine. She is described by Paul Hutton as "one of the rising stars of British ITS." See:http://www-esdmphil.eng.cam.ac.uk/students/alumniprofiles/mara-tafadzwa-makoni-2011-12

For the final role play exercise of the Michaelmas term, the cohort were set the task of proposing policies to advance the sustainable development of the UK through the automotive industry. The students canvassed expert views from the automotive industry through presentations and subsequent cross examination. Working in political parties, the group…

The Centre for Sustainable Development and the internationally leading Water Institute, Gillings School of Global Public Health,  at the University of North Carolina led by Professor Jamie Bartram, have secured collaborative funding to develop new joint research projects  and workshops. The focus of the partnership will be to integrate complimentar…

The Centre welcomes Dr Leon Kapetas, who has begun work with Dick Fenner on the newly launched EPSRC Urban Flood Resilience project (2017-2019). Leon is a hydrologist by training and has previously held a number of research roles in the UK, Peru, the Netherlands, Israel and Greece, most recently working on the 100 Resilient Cities project  in Thess…

Understanding the viability of sewer wastewater heat recovery systems Stephanie Drenten ESD 15-16The ESD MPhil Dissertation work of Stephanie Drenten, ESD 15-16, has been published on "The Cambridge Green Challenge, Living Laboratory" website as a case study. Her dissertation title was:Understanding the viability of sewer waste water heat recover…

Many congratulations to the new ESD Alumni Islamabad  group who met for the first time in November. Thanks to Tahawar for organising this and to Mariam, Faran and Sam.If any ESD Alumni wishes to join the Islambad group please email Sian.If any ESD Alumni wish to set up or join a group in their city please email Sian for further information. We now …

The case for public health policy engagement – a series of case studiesDr Dick Fenner, a Reader in Engineering Sustainability at the University of Cambridge’s Engineering Department, is s a member of a consortium led by the University of Nottingham. Dr Fenner is helping to analyse the benefits of blue-green infrastructure, which can help prevent fl…