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University of Portsmouth Environment Network (UPEN)

Presentation to Portsmouth Sustainable Business Network

Dr David Hutchinson

Cultural and Creative

Industries (CCi)

Humanities and Social Sciences

TechnologyScience

Portsmouth Business School

UPEN is... 120 staff 7000+ undergraduates   36 projects worth over

£5.5 million 100 postgraduate

research students

Sustainability through environment-related:

Deliver Support

StrengthenPromote

• Learning and Teaching• Research & Knowledge Transfer

• Accounting and Finance• Architecture• Art, Design and Media• Biological Sciences• Civil Engineering and

Surveying• Computing• Creative Technologies• Earth and

Environmental Sciences• Economics• Electronic and

Computer Engineering

• Geography• Health Sciences and

Social Work• Human Resource and

Marketing Management

• Law• Mathematics• Mechanical and

Design Engineering• Pharmacy and

Biomedical Sciences• Psychology• Strategy and

Business Systems

Learning and Teaching

BA BScArchitectureEnvironmental Geography 

Civil EngineeringEnvironmental Science 

Geological Hazards

MSc Marine BiologyPhysical Geography 

Applied Aquatic Biology 

Civil Engineering With Environmental Engineering MACrisis and disaster management Sustainable Architecture

Coastal & Marine Resource Management

 

Geographical Information Systems 

CPD

optio

ns

Outreach activities

Employability

Research & Knowledge TransferSustainable

transport

Waste management

Detection & analysis

Design for environment

Deliver• Networking events

• Expanded portfolio of taught programmes

• A growth in collaboration

Support• Public engagement

• Education for sustainable development

• Carbon reduction

Sustainability through environment-related:

Strengthen• Facilitate interaction

• Empower networks

• Raise UPEN profile

Promote• Publicise opportunities

• Encourage collaboration

• Develop UPEN reputation

• Learning and Teaching• Research & Knowledge Transfer

Coastal and Geotechnical Services

Community Spirit Partnership CIC

Climate Change and the Solent: Vulnerabilities and

OpportunitiesTo include:

Mapping and modelling of vulnerable areas

Biological responses Socio-economic resilience

Planning for the future RESULTS LAUNCH FOR EU PROJECTS – TRANSPORT

CARBON INTENCITIES (TRACIT)AND STRATEGIES FOR INNOVATIVE CARBON

SETTLEMENTS (SILCS)

Thursday 15th September 2011

E: environment@port.ac.uk

W: www.port.ac.uk/upen