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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!

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.

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.For more information about the Coton Reserve see:http://www.cambridgeppf.…

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 Friday 29th August.Photo: Owen

Congratulations to the MPhil class of 2012 -13 many of whom graduated on July 19th 2014.Photo Credit: Pieter Nixon

The ESD Alumni conference was held on 18th July 2014 at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge. There were 11 speakers at the event ranging from Nick Wordsworth who was a student on the first MPhil programme (2002-03) to Dev Tayal and Caroline Brown  from last year's MPhil.There were four sessions; Tools to get the job done, Energy focus, Industr…

ESD MPhil Alumni, Franco Gonzalez (2010-11), has been quoted in The Economist Jul 12th 2014See article in the Economist: Supercapacitors First one up the drive Photo Credit: Jochen Van Cauwenberg/Goodwood in the Economist

The ESD MPhil conference was held 14-16 July at the Department of Engineering. Presentations were made by the students and posters were on display in reception. Congratulations to Doros Nicolaides who won the best presentation prize and Jan Monica who won the best poster prize (judged by alumni students.) Photo Credit: Prof Guthrie

The Annual MPhil dinner was held on 16th July in Clare College. The dinner in the Great Hall was preceeded by Reception drinks on the Scholar's Lawn.Photo Credit: Jan MonicaProf Guthrie congratulating Dr Fenner on his promotion

The MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development Dissertation Presentations will be held on 14 – 16 July 2014 in LT0, Engineering Department.Photo: Cruickshank

"Collectively we are stronger - engineers generating collaborative solutions to strengthen community resilience post-disaster" Duncan Gibb - Executive General Manager SCIRT The second lecture of the Institution of Civil Engineers' 10th Brunel International Lecture series was held on Wednesday June 18th at Cambridge University's Engineering Depa…

The Independent newspaper has published an article on it's front page based on a paper by PhD Student Malcolm Morgan and Dr Heather Cruickshank. The paper is about quantifying the extent of space shortages in English Dwellings. The Independent article by Jonathan Brown  is titled "Rabbit-hutch Britain: Growing health concerns as UK sets record for …