planning and environmental management newsletter march 2015
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Your Programme Administrators
Welcome Back!
Planning and
Environmental Management
Volume 1, Issue 3
9th March 2015
T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M A N C H E S T E R – S C H O O L O F E N V I R O N M E N T , E D U C A T I O N A N D
D E V E L O P M E N T
Key Contacts Richard Kingston
Head of Planning
0161 275 1936 [email protected]
Iain Deas
Director of UG Programmes
0161 276 6689
Stephen Hincks
MA URD Programme Director
0161 275 6892
Carys Jones
MA EIAM Director
0161 275 6255
Melanie Lombard
MSc GUDP Programme Director
0161 275 0804
Anna Gilchrist
BA Environmental Management
0161 275 2808
Selma Carson
Examinations Officer
0161 275 3682
As ever, feel free to get in contact with your programme administrator with
any queries, issues or concerns related to the course.
Caroline Turner | 0161 275 6897 |
Katrina Clark | 0161 275 3637 |
Emma Moores | 0161 275 6897 |
I hope you have all settled into the new semester and I hope your Christmas
break was enjoyable even if you had a ton of University work to complete.
In this newsletter, we will look at the latest news from the University, some
inspirational people that have graduated from your very own school, Plan-
ning and Environmental Management take on Chinese New Year celebra-
tions, Manchester Global Graduates Programme and much more.
Ismahan Abdullah
Student Experience Intern
Planning
UoM
Volunteering is a huge
part of the University of
Manchester and there-
fore it doesn’t come as a
surprise that there are
many opportunities
available to you all.
You can read more about
volunteering by visiting
http://
www.volunteers.manche
ster.ac.uk/ and you can
find a plethora of volun-
teering opportunities at
http://
www.careers.mancheste
r.ac.uk/careerslink/.
There have been people
that were part of SEED
that have contributed a
lot of their spare time to
volunteering and a huge
portion of their lives
dedicated to service.
Their efforts have been
recognized and all the
great people below have
been awarded the pres-
tigious Volunteer of the
Year awards.
Sian Millward graduat-
ed with a BA
(Hons) Ap-
plied Commu-
nity and Youth
Work Studies
in 2012. She
specializes in
women’s ex-
perience of
domestic vio-
lence, poverty
and cohesion to offend.
She was a member of the
National Youth Board for
Oxfam where she con-
tributed to the food jus-
tice campaign. She has
also designed and deliv-
ered programmes and
empowerment work-
shops for young people.
She worked with socially
excluded young
people, focusing
on opening up the
possibility of at-
tending University
to those who would
not normally con-
sider this option.
Sian volunteers on a
women’s domestic
violence helpline, is
a trustee for the World
Studies Trust and Chair
of the WomenMATTA
Campaigns group. Phew!
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Going the extra mile at Manchester
Planning and Environmental Management
University News
cities. The funding will
allow investment in re-
newable energy and
storage technologies,
improve energy efficien-
cy and management us-
ing ICT data and support
the increased use of
electric vehicles.
University researchers
James Evans and Andrew
Karvonen from the
School of Environment,
Education and Develop-
ment as well as Krassi
Paskaleva from Man-
chester Institute of Inno-
vation Research at Man-
chester Business School
are leading the monitor-
ing and evaluation work
across the Triangulum.
Part of this work involves
developing frameworks
for open source and in-
teroperable data sharing
platforms that will enable
cities to learn from each
other and develop Smart
City management tech-
nologies and Smart apps.
James Evans says, “it is
essential to understand
how different Smart solu-
tions work in real life
settings if they are going
to be adopted more
widely. This project is
hugely exciting in that it
not only brings key part-
ners together to deploy
and assess different
Smart solutions, but fo-
cuses on how successes
can be rolled out to cities
across the world. Getting
all stakeholders actively
engaged in co-creating
smarter and more sus-
tainable cities is the leg-
acy this project wishes to
leave .”
The University of Manches-
ter is playing a leading role
in a new € 250 million Eu-ropean project to demon-
strate cutting-edge green
technologies and roll them
out across the world.
The University has been
awarded a share of the pot
in a European Commission
scheme to demonstrate
‘smart green growth’ i.e.
reducing carbon emissions
whilst boosting the econo-
my. This work will be car-
ried out whilst working with
the cities of Eindhoven in
Holland and Stavanger in
Norway in a consortium
called Triangulum. Smart
Cities and Communities
will transform designated
urban districts into smart
quarters in three forerunner
cities and then transfer the
concepts to three further
oping countries for com-
munity service. He im-
plemented an innovative
intercultural ex-
change programme,
combining theoreti-
cal learning on so-
cial and environmen-
tal issues through
seminars with ex-
perts with practical
volunteering activities on
the same topics. This
enhances participants’
understanding of the lo-
cal realities and creates
a direct benefit to local
communities. The first
international exchange
programme was success-
fully held in 2010 in the
Dominican Republic and
Haiti.
Raymond Ratti Beato
also attended SEED,
graduating with a Mas-
ters in Inter-
national De-
velopment
Masters of-
fered by
IDPM.
He founded
the Transformative Glob-
al Learning (TGL) non-
profit organization which
takes students from all
over the world to devel-
Keith Mills graduated
from the School of Edu-
cation and is
the founder of
Les Amis
d’Ouganda
(Friends of
Uganda) and
works with
some of the
most disad-
vantaged chil-
dren in Uganda. The
charity has overseen
many things including
building classrooms,
providing clean water,
development of agricul-
ture, supporting orphan-
ages etc. Keith
has also been
busy establish-
ing a child
sponsoring
scheme which
ensures or-
phans are edu-
cated.
Keith regularly visits the
village and meets the
children . He is also in-
tensely involved in liais-
ing with the media,
keeping sponsors up-to –
date with the progress of
the children and writing
newsletters.
The progress in the vil-
lages is clear, but Keith
is aware that it is only the
beginning and that there
is still a long way to go to
make them fully inde-
pendent and to give the
children worthwhile and
productive futures.
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pendents over to the UK
to reunite families.
She is passionate that
families should have the
chance to live together in
a democratic society.
Next up we have Amy
Lythgoe. She graduated
with a BArch Architec-
ture and decided to set
up the charity ‘Refugee
Welcome Trust’.
The charity provides
grants to support de-
pendents of refugees
who have been given
permanent residence
status in the UK. By rais-
ing funds, the charity
aims to bring these de-
Do you need space for group work?
You can book the Amazon and Nile meeting rooms
on the first floor from 10:00—16:00. To book, go to
Student Information Desk on the 2nd floor of Arthur
Lewis Building
February welcomed Chinese New Year and the PEM students thought what better way to cele-
brate than to host a get together . All staff and students were welcome to enjoy food and drink,
Chinese calligraphy, body painting , dance performances and more. It was a successful event,
beautifully executed and well done to those students who worked tirelessly to put together this
event.
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Planning and Environmental Management celebrates
Chinese New Year
Planning and Environmental Management
Manchester Global
Graduates Programme
The National Student Sur-
vey (NSS) is now open to
all final years for com-
pletion and will remain
open until 30th April
2015.
The purpose of this sur-
vey is to give you the
unique chance to make
your opinions heard
about all aspects of your
course. This feedback is
extremely important as it
will provide prospective
students with information
to assist them with their
choices on what and
where to study. The re-
sults are also used by
universities, colleges
and students’ unions to
help identify areas of
improvement. Your re-
sponses will be anony-
mized so you are en-
sured 100% confidential-
ity.
There will be information sessions in the month
of March so make sure you head over to http://
www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/experience/
globalgraduates/ to view the full timetable.
The Manchester Global Graduates Programme
is a unique opportunity offered by the Universi-
ty to current students who are not in their final
year. You will have the chance to visit a global
location and previous trips have included Dubai
and New York.
Employers are increasingly seeking to recruit
‘global graduates’ – graduates who see the
world through a wider lens and who have both
global knowledge and cultural agility. This pro-
gramme is a response to that, to allow a small
group of exceptional students to visit a range of
host organisations, meeting alumni and compa-
ny representatives to learn more about their
businesses. They will also gain insight into the
economic climate, the working culture in the
host city, business practices and areas for future
growth.
32 students will be sponsored and up to 28 of
these places will be available to students who
are in receipt of one or more of the following
bursaries:
Full grant from Student Finance England
The Manchester Bursary
The National Scholarship
Opportunity Manchester Scholarship
National Student Survey
Volume 1, Issue 3 Page 5
What’s on!
Deprived neighbourhoods in transition: the experience of
the Greater Manchester city region
Speaker: Dr Stephen Hincks
When: 14th April 2014
Time: 4:00—5:30pm
Where: Humanities Bridgeford Street
It’s becoming more and more vital for University graduates to
have relevant experience on their CVs. If you are looking for
work experience but you are finding it difficult to commit to it
for financial reasons then you may benefit from applying for a
Work Experience Bursary .
The Careers Service has a limited bursary fund, open to un-
dergraduate students only. This bursary is there to help you
when additional costs are needed and can only be used to
cover related travel, accommodation and/or dependant care
costs incurred as a result of undertaking your work experi-
ence.
This way, you do not need to worry about passing opportuni-
ties for money reasons.
Visit Careers Service for more information and how to apply.
If you are thinking of
pursuing a postgraduate
degree and would like to
know what opportunities
it will offer then come
along to the University’s
Postgraduate Taught
Open Day on Wednes-
day 18th March 2015.
The Open Day is a great
opportunity for you to
get a flavour of what life
as a postgraduate taught
student at the University
of Manchester is really
like. As well as the
chance to speak to a va-
riety of staff about the
many aspects of post-
graduate study, you’ll
also be able to meet
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The University of Manchester Postgraduate
Taught Courses Open Day
In the afternoon, our aca-
demic Schools will lead
sessions relating to your
subject area, where both
admissions and teaching
staff will be available to
answer your queries
about the course(s)
you’re interested in. Fur-
ther information about
our postgraduate taught
courses can be found on
the University website.
Take a look at the full
open day programme
here
To book your place,
click here
representatives from
some of our key student
services and speak to
some of our current mas-
ter’s students about their
experiences.
Our award-winning Ca-
reers Service will also be
on hand to discuss grad-
uate qualification from
the University of Man-
chester can help you to
realise your ambitions.
There will also be a ses-
sion about student fi-
nance, funding and the
recently announced
HEFCE Postgraduate
Scholarship Scheme.