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Details of 2010 CHES Annual Conference Announced
This year’s CHES Annual Conference will be held on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April 2010 and hosted by the University of Dundee in collaboration with the Annual Conference of the Tay Estuary Forum, one of Scotland’s Local Coastal Partnerships. This will provide an opportunity for CHES members to network with staff from the three local universities, SNH, SEPA, NGOs, local authorities along with MSc and PhD students.
The full conference package fee of £250.00 includes:
- Buffet lunches on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April
- Conference Dinner on Thursday 22 April (Melbourne Suite, Apex Hotel)
- Whisky Tasting on Thursday 22 April
- Bed and Breakfast accommodation for the night of Thursday 22 April at the 4* Apex Hotel, City Quay, Dundee (www.apexhotels.co.uk)
- Teas and coffees on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April
For non-residential delegates the fee is £160.00. Download a full programme and a booking form.
CHES Annual Meeting 6-7 July 2009, Brighton Marina - Chair's Report
This year’s AGM and annual meeting, hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex, were held at the Brighton Marina. The meeting proved to be lively and productive, thanks to some very interesting and through-provoking presentations and discussions. There was a good range of informative presentations, providing insight to samples of research interests of local HEIs, plus illuminating views of national projects and environment-related education and research themes more broadly in the HE sector. From delegates and speakers alike, there was a keen sense of the importance of Environmental Sciences in HE, and of the ongoing and future challenges and opportunities. There is obviously much work to be done by CHES and allied organisations in the years to come and a key role for CHES and its members; thankfully we have an engaged and committed group to take things forward! Many thanks to all our delegates and speakers for their contributions, and thanks also to colleagues from CHES and host institutions for considerable effort in organising this event. Next year’s AGM will see us in Dundee at the end of April; we hope to see a good attendance again for a lively and purposeful meeting and build on the quality of the 2009 gathering.
Dr Pete Shaw (Southampton University).
To view the available talks please click on the name below:
Joanna Simpson (HEFCE) 'Sustainable development - the role of higher education and HEFCE'
Simon Jackman (NERC) 'Exploiting environmental science:opportunities in the Green Economy'
Dan Osbourne (NERC) 'Living with environmental change'
Adam Donnan (IES) 'Environmental Science careers website'
CHES Executive Meeting
The next CHES Executive Committee meetings will take place on 14th January 2010, London.
IES Student membership
Owing to the increase in Universities joining CHES, IES student membership has now increased to a record 650! Please encourage all students on IES accredited programmes to join the IES (it's free), along with the benefits of belonging to a member of a long established and highly reputable environmental science professional body. Southampton managed to get all their students registered on their IES accredited programmes to join.
Environmental Scientist Journal: Changing Landscapes in Sustainability
Please click on the link for the latest IES journal.
22/10/2008: UNEP launches Green Economy Initiative to Get the Global Markets Back to Work
Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy towards investments in clean technologies and 'natural' infrastructure such as forests and soils is the best bet for real growth, combating climate change and triggering an employment boom in the 21st century. The call was made on 22nd October by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and leading economists as they launched the Green Economy Initiative aimed at seizing an historic opportunity to bring about tomorrow's economy today. Click here to read the full press release.
14/10/2008: Gordon Brown launches Eliasch Review
The Prime Minister has hosted the Number 10 launch of the Eliasch Review into deforestation. Accompanied by report author Johan Eliasch, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, Development Secretary Douglas Alexander and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, the PM said that investment in the environment could offer a “route out of the current economic downturn”. Click here to read more and view the full report.
31/07/2008: Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine. Click here to read full article.
October 2009: Reflecting on the DESD: The 2009 Global Progress Report and the role of HE
Mid-October saw the release of the UNESCO Global Report on ESD at the UN General Assembly, marking the mid-point of the United Nations Decade in ESD (DESD). This is a seminal document: the first report of global scale issued by a UN agency and a substantial exercise in data collection, which includes regional overviews from sub-Saharan Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Arab states, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Its publication provides an opportunity to set in context and reflect upon activities under way in the increasingly fertile field of ESD across UK Higher Education.
You can read the full report here
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EVENTS 2009/2010
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
For additional events please go to the IES website.
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January
20 January: What On Earth Are They Thinking?...Overcoming Barriers to Learning in the Geosciences, University of Birmingham
The GEES Subject Centre is holding a one-day event on learning and teaching in the geosciences with a specific focus on overcoming barriers to student learning. This includes misconceptions, threshold concepts and areas of cognitive difficulty such as geological time, spatial thinking (2D-3D-4D) and complex / systems thinking.
Click here for further details.
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February
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March
19 March: Sustainable Development in the Higher Education Classroom: Perspectives from Area Studies and Development Studies, Birmingham
To date, there has often been comparatively limited knowledge exchange between the fields of Area Studies and Development Studies, but the global and interdisciplinary nature of both subjects would suggest that both ought to be primary sites for engaging with questions of environmental sustainability and climate change. The HE Academy’s Languages, Linguistics, and Area Studies (LLAS) Subject Centre is pleased to host this event where the accent falls mainly, but not solely, on exploring examples of “classroom” practice of whatever form, embracing anything from traditional delivery patterns through to enquiry-based or IT based learning.
Click here for further details
20 - 22 March: The New Green Economy: 10th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment, Washington
The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) national conference is a place to explore issues of the green economy in both a short-term and long-term context. It will engage leading thinkers and doers from a diversity of disciplines, sectors, and perspectives in a structured conversation about the meaning of the green economy and how investment in green education, research and jobs can help solve both the economic and environmental crises.
Please see the NSCE website for further details.
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April
22- 23 April CHES Annual Conference
Hosted by the University of Dundee in collaboration with the Annual Conference of the Tay Estuary Forum, one of Scotland’s Local Coastal Partnerships. This will provide an opportunity for CHES members to network with staff from the three local universities, SNH, SEPA, NGOs, local authorities along with MSc and PhD students.
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May
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June
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July
22 - 23 July: Employability in the Curriculum: Beyond the Bolt-on? University of Central Lancashire
The University of Central Lancashire's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETH) invites you to explore the processes, value, and impact of different ways of delivering employability within subject curricula and asks whether we have moved beyond the bolt-on and to what effect?
Key Note Speakers include: Professor Freda Tallantyre (HEA), Professor Lee Harvey (Copenhagen Business School), Professor Ronald Barnett (Institute of Education, University of London) andOdile Quintin, EU Director General of Education of Culture (tbc).
See the University's website for further details
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2009 CHES Meetings
The next scheduled CHES Executive Committee meetings: 14th January & 22nd April 2010.
Contact CHES if you would like to receive information about this event or would like to exhibit.
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