New Director for CECHR
Professor Ioan Fazey is the new director of CECHR, previously deputy director of CECHR, and Professor of Social Dimensions of Environmental Change, University of Dundee. Pictured here with the new team. The world is facing major social and environmental challenges in ways that are difficult to comprehend. Complexity, uncertainty and change are now the norm and new interdisciplinary and transformative approaches are needed to understand and shape that change. CECHR provides an exciting opportunity to do this by bringing together some of the best social and environmental researchers in the UK from the Univer...
Activism in the Built Environment: Media
Accompanying the City is a Thinking Machine Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery is a programme of three evening events, the second of which takes place this Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6pm in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee This double bill should be of interest to architects planners lawyers psychologists, artists and other agitators, anyone interested in the city as the arena in which our social political and legal relations are played out and inscribed in our collective memory. Mike Small - Geddes and the 5th Estate: Publishing, Citizenship and Cultural Insurge...
Town and Country Planning Association (Scotland) prize
Town and Regional Planning at the University of Dundee recently awarded the Town and Country Planning Association (Scotland) Prize for the best student in the MSc Spatial Planning course to Ryan Blair. Ryan recently graduated with distinction in the MSc Spatial Planning with Environmental Assessment and previously graduated with a first class honours degree in geography from the University of Dundee. He is now a licentiate of the Royal Town Planning Institute and hopes to obtain the Chartered status in good time.On receiving this award Ryan said "I am honoured to have been selected as the recipient of the ...
Husam Al Waer awarded Reed and Mallik Ltd journal prize
Congratulations to Husam Al Waer who has been awarded the Reed and Mallik Ltd journal prize (for the best paper in journal) for his paper ‘Improving contemporary approaches to the master planning process’ published in the journal Urban Design and Planning (Vol 167 issueDP1). Each year, ICE Publishing acknowledges the best work published in their journals at the ICE Publishing Awards ceremony. We award authors from both industry and academia who have produced work judged by their peers to be of exceptional quality and benefit to the civil engineering and science community. Each paper is free to ...