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Dr Kevin Waldie is one of UCEM’s Associate Tutors and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research projects. Studying social anthropology to doctorate level, Kevin has spent most of his career in the international aid sector undertaking a wide variety of roles…

As part of UCEM’s pledge to tackle climate change, Dr Renuka Thakore attended Dive Deep & Dream Big – an event bringing together activists and politicians to work on sustainable solutions for our planet at the beginning of March in…

Episode 2 of Digging Deeper focuses on sustainability.   UCEM was recently audited by students for its National Union of Students (NUS) Responsible Futures reaccreditation effort. With several students and apprentices at our Reading-based HQ, it provided a great opportunity…

Why should we be sustainable? Our Surveying Technician apprentice (Quantity Surveying and Construction Pathway), Ashley White, became an advocate for sustainability after seeing the damaging impact on our ecosystem while on her travels abroad. Here, she tells her story… Over…

As part of UCEM’s growing commitment to sustainability, the institution recently hired its first Tutor with a bespoke sustainability remit. Brian Quinn is a Sustainability Tutor who is part of our Apprenticeships Team and teaches our Level 3 apprentices. He…

UCEM recently hosted ‘Sustainable Futures: Progress through partnerships’ – an inaugural international research workshop for networking and partnership creation. Here, the organiser of the workshop, Dr Renuka Thakore, reports back from the event…     Background As in most developing…

The March 2020 issue of Knowledge Foundations is available to view now! In this month’s issue, you can read more on the following: UK invests £1.2bn into weather and climate supercomputer With seemingly a different storm hitting the UK every…

Welcome to the latest edition of Ashley Wheaton’s ‘Principal Thoughts’. This month, Ashley rounds up UCEM’s National Apprenticeship Week publicity and urges government to deliver on their promises. Apprenticeships are great. This may seem an obvious statement to make but…

Many of our Apprenticeship Outcomes Officers (AOOs) went to visit apprentices and their employers to mark National Apprenticeship Week last week.   We published a summary of the visits and AOO, David Meilhan’s interview with our Chartered Surveyor apprentice, Bayezid…