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May 2009
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Visitor Seminar: From Turning the Tide to the Durham Heritage Coast
21 May 2009
Niall Benson, Project Manager for the Durham Heritage Coast, will visit the Institute on Thursday 21st May to discuss his work regenerating an interesting piece of coastline in North East England.
The coast between Hartlepool and Sunderland had been best known for the depressing backdrop for films such as Get Carter and Billy Elliot until the £10million Turning the Tide transformed it into a popular area with real on the ground improvements, for example the main town Seaham had one coffee shop at the start of the project and now has 13, plus the highest increase in house prices from 2003 to 2006. This has led to the area now having Heritage Coast Status and in 2002 the Turning the Tide project won, jointly with the Eden Project in Cornwall, the prize for Outstanding Achievement in Regeneration in the annual Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors awards.
These achievements have gained above all by engagement with the local community and this will be an important focus of the discussion.
The seminar will take place at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute on Thursday 21st May from 12.30 until 1.30.
East Grampian Coastal Partnership website.
Environmental Change Aberdeen Research Consortium (ARC) Awareness Day
12 May 2009
The aim of the event is to increase awareness of the breadth of research activity in environmental change research within Aberdeen, to encourage and facilitate collaboration and development of new research areas, to identify future funding opportunities and to increase research profile.
Environmental Change has been identified by Research Councils, the Scottish Government and other major research funders as an important area for future research. There is considerable environmental change research activity within Aberdeen, across a range of disciplines and research organisations.
The programme will involve:
- Invited lectures from Andrew Watkinson (Director Living With Environmental Change): LWEC and from Philip Wright (Deputy Director, Climate Change, Scottish Government
- Overarching presentations on environmental change research within the above ARC institutions
- Lunch merging into a poster session on specific research interests
- General discussion on the potential and mechanisms for increased collaboration, identification of new research areas and opportunities and mechanisms for increasing the profile of Aberdeen in environment and human health research.
More information and organisers' contact details
You can find more stories about the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in the latest edition of our newsletter, in-land.
News about upcoming events can be found here.
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