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EWB-UK ACADEMIC TRAINING DAY
Wednesday 28th January 2015
Arup, 13 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 4BQ
Final Schedule
Itinerary: Day opens promptly at 10:30 with registration & refreshments from 10:00. Day closes
at 17:00.
Arrival: Please report to reception in the No 13 Arup office where you will be directed to the
meeting room called ‘Martin & Ahm’. Please see the map overleaf, No 13 is the building marked ‘1’.
Networking – A long lunch will be provided to enable participants to network with all those
involved in the day.
10:00-10:30
Registration and tea/coffee
10:30-11:00
Welcome and introduction to Engineers Without Borders UK
Aim: to provide an overview of the day; an insight into EWB-UK’s aims
and objectives, approach and programmes; and, a brief overview of the
range of activities and resources available to assist academics in
integrating sustainable development issues into teaching and how they
can be accessed
11:00-12:00
Resources and activities
Aim: to present activities that can be used by academics to support
engineering students enhance their understanding of context. In
particular the influence of context on engineering and technology projects
and the impacts of engineering and technology projects on context.
12:00-13:00
Reaching out to engineering academics worldwide
Aim: To think beyond developing engineering curricula at your own
institution and think about the possibility of collaboration to increase
global engineering capacity. Brian Reed from Loughborough University
will be talking about his initiatives working with and training university
lecturers in Mozambique and Sierra Leone.
13:00-14:30
Lunch and networking
Buffet lunch to enable participants to network with all those involved in
the day. After lunch we will be moving to another meeting room for the
remainder of the day.
14:30-16:45
EWB-UK Academics World Café
Aim: to inform EWB-UK on its future activities in the academic
community. This will be an opportunity to reflect on past and present
support and feed into shaping the future of our support to teaching and
research in academia.
16:45-17:00
Close
EWB-UK Academic Days are funded by the EU via the Global Dimension in
Engineering Education (GDEE) Project. Find out more at www.gdee.eu
Full details available at:
http://www.arup.com/~/media/Files/Locations/United_Kingdom/London_map_with_cyclehire.ashx
EWB-UK Team
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Katie Cresswell-Maynard, Head of Learning, Research and Innovation
Katie took up this position in May 2014, but she has been involved with EWB since 2006 through
her local student branch at Durham University. Katie has an MEng in mechanical engineering and
undertook a master’s thesis on energy provision for rural communities in Rwanda. She has
previously worked for EWB-UK managing the Research Programme and instigating the EWB
Challenge. Katie worked for the engineering consultancy Arup in the Cities, Energy and Climate
Change team working on climate change mitigation and adaptation measures for local
government alongside sustainable cities and resilience programmes driven by international NGOs.
Dan Craddock, EWB Challenge Manager
Dan joined EWB-UK in October 2014; he is the Challenge Manager looking after the programmes
delivery in the UK and Ireland. Dan graduated from Leeds University in 2011 with a degree in
International Development and Politics. Since then he has had roles working in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories and within the UK education sector.
Lisa Bunclark, Academic Community Officer
Lisa took up her role as EWB-UK’s Academic Community Coordinator in October 2013. She first
became involved in EWB-UK as a Placement Volunteer in 2009, spending three months in India
on the design and construction of a village rainwater harvesting system. Lisa has Masters degrees
in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London, and Development Studies from the University
of East Anglia. She has worked on water and housing related projects in India, Botswana, Burkina
Faso, Tanzania and El Salvador at implementation, planning and policy levels. Lisa is currently
undertaking an interdisciplinary PhD focused on agricultural rainwater harvesting technologies
and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.
Speakers
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Brian Reed, Loughborough University
Brian is a lecturer in water and sanitation for low-income countries, teaching at undergraduate,
postgraduate and professional development levels. He is particularly interested in holistic and
multidisciplinary aspects of water and sanitation and this is reflected in the wide range of subjects
he teaches, from making concrete to gender aspects of engineering projects, and the book he
edited on 'Infrastructure for All'. As a Chartered Environmentalist, Brian teaches modules on
Environmental Assessment and Integrated Water Resource Management, as well as contributing
to many other modules. In terms of research, areas of interest relate to the 'gaps and overlaps'
between more traditional topics, such as management of water and sanitation facilities in
emergencies, the institutional aspects of urban drainage or how engineers can contribute to
development. Research and teaching are brought together in his work on capacity building looking at who needs the skills required for delivering sustainable services and how these skills
can be developed.