Architecture and the Built Environment news

• National Teaching Fellowship Award and CATE for UWE lecturers

  05/08/2021 Teaching staff on UWE Bristol's Team Entrepreneurship programme have won an AdvanceHE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE), while Professor Elena Marco has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. The accolades recognise academic teaching excellence and are awarded by Advance HE.

• Bee behaviour to influence energy efficiency communication to homes

  30/06/2021 A revolutionary project launching in December 2021 is set to redefine how households are advised on the most efficient use of their energy, based on bees' social organisation and communication patterns.

• Pepper the Robot joins school to support autistic young people

  24/06/2021

  A socially intelligent robot is lending a helping hand to pupils at a special needs school in Somerset as part of a project led by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) researchers.

• Exhibition involving UWE students about famed tightrope walker opens to public

  28/05/2021 An exhibition, co-funded by UWE Bristol's Community Fund and involving the University's architecture and film students, explores the remarkable life of one of the world's greatest tight rope walkers. Running since 26th May at the Bristol Beacon, A Fine Balance tells the story of Carlos Trower who escaped slavery and used his fame to promote the emancipation of enslaved people.

• Architecture students take part in design competition to address homelessness in the city

  17/02/2021

  Architecture students take part in design competition to address homelessness in the city

• Socially intelligent robot to be introduced to special needs school in innovative study

  16/09/2020

  Researchers from UWE Bristol are investigating how socially intelligent robots can be used in schools to support young autistic people.

• Interior architecture students re-imagine the Royal West of England Academy

  21/03/2019

  Students from UWE Bristol have worked in partnership with one of the city's leading art galleries to draw up designs for its possible redevelopment.

• UWE Bristol academic appointed board member of national architecture body

  19/03/2019

  UWE Bristol's Head of Department for Architecture and the Built Environment Elena Marco has been appointed to the board of the Architect's Registration Board (ARB), the UK's regulator of the architects' profession.

• Honorary degree awarded to Natalie Fee

  23/07/2018

  UWE Bristol awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science to Natalie Fee in recognition of her campaigning to protect the oceans from plastics and other avoidable wastes.

• Honorary degree awarded to Sebastian Conran

  23/07/2018

  UWE Bristol awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Design to Sebastian Conran in recognition of his contribution to the UK design and enterprise.

• Bristol Rugby chairman Chris Booy to be awarded honorary degree

  21/11/2017

  Chris Booy is to be awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) in recognition of his contribution to UWE Bristol and the City of Bristol, and the furtherance of project management and construction.

• UWE Bristol expert says traffic free zones have transformed Leicester

  04/10/2017

  The Centre for Transport and Society at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) has launched a video telling the story of how Leicester reclaimed its city centre from motor traffic, after the damage inflicted on it during the 1960s and 70s.

• Applied Sciences at UWE Bristol retain Athena SWAN Bronze Award for commitment to gender equality

  09/05/2017

  The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has announced the renewal of the Athena SWAN Bronze Award granted to the Department of Applied Sciences in recognition of its continued efforts to challenge gender inequality.

• Architecture students transform former Turkish baths

  03/11/2016

  12 UWE Bristol MArch Architecture students camped at the Making Lewes Festival for one week in order to help reopen a former Turkish baths in the centre of Lewes, and transform it into a temporary festival and exhibition venue; a showcase of community re-use. Opening the building's doors to residents of Lewes, the students worked with a range of local people in activities and making workshops.

• Impact of road transport on air quality not given sufficient priority in UK transport planning

  30/08/2016

  UK transport planning is not sufficiently taking into account the environmental impacts of transport choices according to researchers from the Centre for Transport and Society and Air Quality Management Resource Centre at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).

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