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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 Richard.Kingston@manchester.ac.uk

Iain Deas

Director of UG Programmes

0161 276 6689

Iain.Deas@manchester.ac.uk

Stephen Hincks

MA URD Programme Director

0161 275 6892

Stephen.Hincks@manchester.ac.uk

Carys Jones

MA EIAM Director

0161 275 6255

Carys.Jones@manchester.ac.uk

Melanie Lombard

MSc GUDP Programme Director

0161 275 0804

Melanie.Lombard@manchester.ac.uk

Anna Gilchrist

BA Environmental Management

0161 275 2808

Anna.Gilchrist@manchester.ac.uk

Selma Carson

Examinations Officer

0161 275 3682

Selma.Carson@manchester.ac.uk

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 |

Caroline.Turner@manchester.ac.uk

Katrina Clark | 0161 275 3637 |

Katrina.Clark@manchester.ac.uk

Emma Moores | 0161 275 6897 |

Emma.Moores@manchester.ac.uk

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

Ismahan.abdullah@manchester.ac.uk

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

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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.