Virtual Real Estate Seminars
Virtual Real Estate Seminars are calling for Papers for seminar slots in June/July. If you’d like to present on any of the below dates, please send an email including the title of your proposed paper, a link to the paper or an attachment, and the slot during which you’d like to present.
Cambridge University Student Union Awards
The Department are delighted to announce the news that Mr David Stott has won the CUSU award for best Supervisor of the Year in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. A fantastic achievement.
CRERC under COVID
So the Department is in week 9 of lockdown and has been closed since 16th March. But, the business of CRERC has not stopped as staff and students have adapted to teaching and learning remotely. Here’s a snapshot of what’s going on.
MSt in Real Estate 2020 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
The submission deadline for MSt applications for the 2020 course has been extended to 15th June 2020
Call for Papers
The University of Cambridge, University of Florida, The University of Geneva | National University of Singapore (NUS) are pleased to announce a call for papers for their joint 2020 Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium.
Students visit lead architect Bill Price and staff at WSP London
On January 10th, 2020, a group of students of land economy had a unique opportunity to visit lead architect Bill Price and his staff at WSP London that was formed over 125 years ago out of a group of companies of MRM Partnership, Kennedy and Donkin and Merz and McLellan now known as WSP specializing in engineering, architecture, and design. They have been ranked number 1 by ENR’s latest top 225 international design in the world.
21st annual BIOECON conference
Prof Andreas Kontoleon (Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University) co-hosted the 21st annual BIOECON conference on the economics of biodiversity conservation between the 11th and the 13th of September 2019 at Wageningen, The Netherlands. This year’s conference was titled “Inequality and poverty in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management” and was co-hosted with the University of Wageningen and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig.
Prof Jorge Viñuales has been elected to the Institut de Droit International
The Department is delighted to announce that Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at Cambridge, has been elected to the Institute of International Law at its Hague Session of 2019.
Former lecturer in the Dept of Land Economy Dr Diane Dawson has sadly passed away
Over the summer, the Department were sorry to learn of the passing away of Dr Diane Dawson, former lecturer in the Department and a life fellow of Corpus Christi at the age of 76.