Tripos prizes for 2017-18
The Department is pleased to announce that the below students have been awarded prizes for their performance in the 2017-18 Tripos Examinations.
Cambridge Future Cities Conference and PhD competition 2018
Date announced for Cambridge Future Cities Conference 2018. PhD Prize Fellowship competition now open for entries.
US Department of Energy workshop on green real estate economics
Dr Franz Fuerst, Reader in Housing and Real Estate Finance at the Department, participated in a workshop jointly hosted by the US Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that took place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on 6th and 7th October.
Horizon 2020 project hosts national advisory board expert seminar at Silver Street
The Land Economy project team in the Horizon 2020 EU project convened a national advisory board meeting and expert seminar at the Department on 29 September 2017.
Risk analysis of green retrofits presented at FRAP international finance conference
The research team led by Dr Franz Fuerst in the Horizon 2020 EU project "Incentives through Transparency: European Rental Housing Framework for the Profitability Calculation of Retrofitting Investments (RentalCal)" presented their preliminary findings at the 16th FRAP Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspective and 2nd SSFII - Social and Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing conferences in Cambridge from 25 to 27 September 2017.
Dr Nicky Morrison welcomes new undergraduates to Land Economy
Dr. Nicky Morrison is the Deputy Director of the Land Economy Tripos and a Fellow and tutor at St Edmund’s College. Nicky welcomed new Land Economy undergraduate students to the Department at the Tripos Induction. She gained a lot of inspiration for her talk by being part of the University’s new Centre for Teaching and Learning meeting for Directors of teaching and Senior tutors where they discussed the meaning of ‘Diversity in a collegiate University’. Below is a copy of the speech that Nicky delivered to the new first year Land Economists.
Land Economy tops the league tables in 2018 Times Good University Guide
The recently published Times Good University Guide has ranked the Department of Land Economy as the top programme in the country in the category of “Land and Property Management”.
The Department of Land Economy co-sponsored the 19th BioEcon conference 20-22 Sep. in Tilburg (the Netherlands).
The 19th BIOECON conference on “Evidence-based environmental policies and the optimal management of natural resources” was co-hosted by the Department of Land Economy between 20-22 September 2017 in Tilburg (the Netherlands).