Construction Management student Sinead Reynolds gets best paper award at AISBEE

The University of Ulster in conjunction with Dublin Institute of Technology and the Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE) under the direction of the Built Environment Educational Research Group organised the All Ireland Symposium on Built Environment Education (AISBEE) which took place on Friday 22nd January 2010 at the Belfast Campus of the University of Ulster.

The central theme of the conference was ‘learning through linkages’ and the underlying purpose of the symposium was to provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas and dialogue through participation.

Sinead Reynolds, in 4th year on the Construction Management Degree presented a paper entitled ‘ A Student’s Reflections on Participation in the 2009 Twenty Four Hour Universal Design Challenge’ for which she received the ‘CEBE Best Paper’ award in the student strand. Congratulations and well done to Sinead.

The conference format included a number of key note addresses, with Professor Norton addressing the Challenges, Polices and Practices in Higher Education in Ireland. Professor David Boud of the University of Sydney presented a key note on the linkages in Assessment across courses and beyond where he challenged academics to look differently at Assessment and to make it more sustainable. There were a number of ‘formal’ peer reviewed papers presented along with a number of informal themes discussed. Further information on conference papers from both informal and formal are available at the conference website or by contacting Lloyd Scott, Department of Construction Management and Technology.