University of West England
Within the Faculty of Environment and Technology, we have about 300 academic staff teaching on courses and working in research centres related to the built and natural environment. Teaching and research on this scale enables specialist work to be combined with a breadth of vision that is increasingly important in environment-related disciplines. Inter-disciplinary teaching and research is a particular strength of UWE’s activity in the built and natural environment.
Our courses are accredited by leading professional bodies, such as the ARB, CIH, CILT, CIOB, CIWEM, RIBA, RICS and RTPI. Most of our courses can be taken as 'conversion courses' by graduates from unrelated disciplines, and can be studied full time and either part time or distance learning.
Departments
Construction and Property
Geography and Environmental Management
Planning and Architecture
Research Centres
Construction and Property Research Centre
Centre for the Study of Sustainable Building
Centre for Environment and Planning
Cities Research Centre
Centre for Transport & Society
WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy
Centre for Leisure, Tourism and Society
Air Quality Management Resource Centre
Geography Research Unit
Centre for Research in Environmental Science
Postgraduate courses enable students to explore closer to the boundaries of established knowledge, and it is therefore important that they are guided by academics who are themselves developing new theory and practice. In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, research in the built and natural environment was rated 'internationally excellent', 'world leading' and 'internationally recognised'.
Town and Country Planning
Half was rated as ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world leading’
Much of the other half rated as ‘internationally recognised’
Architecture and the Built Environment
45% rated ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world leading
Much of the rest rated as ‘internationally recognised’
Geography and Environmental Studies
70% rated ‘internationally recognised
The RAE 2008 demonstrated that much of UWE’s research equates in quality terms with the highest standards achieved anywhere in UK Higher Education. This, in turn, underpins and informs the quality and content of our taught courses at all levels.
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