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Zoom webinar transcripts and accessibility: What our students think

Our learning technology research team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the systems used by our students are as up-to-date and accessible as possible. The team surveys the learning technology…

Introducing the GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE FUTURES: Progress through Partnerships Network. Guest blog by our research assistant – education and sustainability, Dr Renuka Thakore

Introduction The research collaboration between the Global South and Global North, and within, between and beyond low-, middle- and high- income countries to secure global sustainable futures is more important…

Research: Lockdown homeschooling survey. Guest blog by our Learning Technology Researcher, Dr Tharindu Liyanagunawardena

When the UK Government announced a national lockdown in March in response to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, it plunged many of us into unfamiliar situations. One of these situations…

Principal Thoughts: Building a student community

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley reports on the focus on developing a community at UCEM which students are proud to be part…

UCEM Property Awards 2020: Q&A with our Harold Samuel Research Prize winners, Dr Olayiwola Oladiran and Professor Anupam Nanda

Last Thursday (15 October), we held our 33rd Property Awards event online where, for only the second time, we announced this year’s recipients of the Harold Samuel Research Prize. …

Podcast: Digging Deeper – Episode 4: Harold Samuel Research Prize

Episode 4 of Digging Deeper looks at the Harold Samuel Research Prize. (L-R) UCEM Director of Research, Innovation and Partnerships, Aled Williams, Founder of Alpha Property Insight and the…

Research: Embedding sustainability within UCEM. Guest blog by our Research Assistant – Education & Sustainability, Dr Renuka Thakore

Our Research Assistant – Education & Sustainability, Dr Renuka Thakore, and Director of Research, Innovation and Partnerships, Aled Williams, recently presented on behalf of UCEM at the Associated Schools of…

UCEM Property Awards 2020 – Our Alumni of the Year nominees: Jonathan Bayfield

We will be hosting the 33rd UCEM Property Awards on Thursday, 15 October. Due to COVID-19, we will not be able to hold this in person but we will be…

My life in Construction Management: Guest blog by our BSc (Hons) Construction Management Programme Leader, Dr Afolabi Dania

Studies I grew up surrounded and influenced by a lot of people who worked in the construction industry. I have always been fascinated by the Built Environment, construction plant and…

Q&A with Harold Samuel Research Prize 2019 winner, Dan Hughes, seven months on

Yesterday, we heard from Adrian Tagg about how his research is going and today, it is the turn of Dan Hughes, with whom he shared the inaugural Harold Samuel Research…

Revelations, misconceptions and plenty of coffee: Guest blog by Harold Samuel Research Prize 2019 winner, Adrian Tagg, seven months on

Adrian Tagg was the joint recipient of our inaugural Harold Samuel Research Prize last year. The Chartered Building Surveyor and Associate Professor at the University of Reading gained funding from…