Research Centre for Education in the Built Environment
The Research Centre for Education in the Built Environment (RCEBE) promotes built environment education as a collaborative multi disciplinary research field both at the University of Salford and in the broader national and international built environment academic community. RCEBE addresses the development of innovation in educational theory and practice, learning technology and practice and evaluates student learning experiences to optimise approaches between academic discipline and multi disciplinary based research, university based education, and work place lifelong learning practices.
Specifically RCEBE aims to:
- promote research that informs the development of the learning environment and educational processes across the built environment academic disciplines
- build the capacity of academic staff to undertake educational research in built environment disciplines and to implement the results of such research in formal and informal programmes of learning
- promote a community of academics, practitioners, and post graduate research students involved in built environment educational research in order to develop a spirit of co-operation, multi disciplinarily, dissemination and collegiality nationally and internationally
Contact
Professor Chris Fortune
Centre Director
Email C.J.Fortune@salford.ac.uk
The Centre is particularly interested in receiving PhD research proposals in the following areas:
- Innovations in educational theory
- Benchmarking
- Internationalisation and curriculum practice
- Built environment higher education student experience
- Novel models of delivery, academic support and assessment including learning technology, blended learning, E learning and e-assessment practices, distance and work based learning, up skilling in the workplace, and lifelong learning approaches
- Industry and third space engagement with built environment higher education and curriculum design for employability and learning environments in the workplace
- Educational supply chain and issues of retention, recruitment, and wider participation
Projects
Accelerating Change in Built Environment Education
ACBEE was established to encourage the built environment industry, universities and professional bodies to work together to improve dialogue and provide more relevant training and education for the future.
Website: http://www.acbee.org/
Capacity Building for Disaster Preparedness and Reconstruction
This research group takes a more expansive view of the life cycle of infrastructure projects, one that extends beyond the traditional cycle of feasibility analysis, planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance and divestiture.
This revised life-cycle should encompass the construction professional's ability to anticipate and respond to unexpected events that damage or destroy an infrastructure project - from earthquakes and climate change to terrorist attacks - and reflect construction's ongoing responsibility to infrastructure users.
Construction and Women
The Construction and Women project aims to identify the causes of a lack of women in professional construction.
Policies, strategies and best practice guidelines will be produced and disseminated to encourage women to pursue careers in construction, and improve retention in the industry.
Constructing Women Leaders
Constructing Women Leaders aims to research the underlying reasons for the scarcity of women in leadership positions in construction.
The project intends to find ways to improve the current status of women leaders and will highlight the experiences of successful women leaders in other sectors.
The project will produce recommendations, good practice guidelines and strategies to address current barriers for women leaders in construction.
Website: http://www.veber.salford.ac.uk/cwl/
Construction Knowledge Exchange
The Government has established a network of 22 Centres of Knowledge Exchange Activity to support higher education institutions working with business and the wider community.
The Construction Knowledge Exchange (CKE) is funded to support knowledge transfer between universities and the construction-related industries. It is a national project, led by CEBE, where a number of regional universities around the country are working with business and education to build the capability and infrastructure to transfer knowledge.
Website: http://www.cke.org.uk/
EURASIA - European and Asian Infrastructure Advantage
EURASIA is an EU Asia-Link funded network project that aims to enhance the capacity of the partner institutions for training, teaching and research activities required for the creation and long-term management of public and commercial facilities and infrastructure.
It is directly targeted at postgraduate students, and junior and senior faculty members from the EU and Sri Lankan partner institutions. It is indirectly targeted at researchers, public sector organisations, consultancies, and industry.
The partnership comprises five Higher Education Institutions from England, Estonia, Lithuania and Sri Lanka.
Website: http://www.eurasia.buhu.salford.ac.uk/
TECHTRANSFER
The main aim of TECHTRANSFER project is to compare strengths and weaknesses of output standards in higher education on a European level in the scope of new technology and innovation adaptation.
Website: http://www.tech-transfer.eu/