LAQM Training Days 2009 - booking form available

It won't have escaped your notice that air quality management in 2009 is set to see some changes with the imminent publication of the new Local Air Quality Management Policy and Technical Guidance and tools to facilitate report preparation and submission. To ease air quality professionals into this Review & Assessment year and help them to fully understand the implications of these changes, the Air Quality Management Resource Centre, UWE, and Air Quality Consultants Ltd will be holding a series of Training Days during March 2009. Sessions will be held throughout England (see dates and venues below) and will provide delegates with, among other things, advice on the preparation of LAQM reports (Review & Assessment Reports and Air Quality Action Plans) under the new Technical Guidance, the online USA template and the web submission tool and LAQM support tools. Please click here to access further information and the registration form.

10/3/09 Bristol (hosted by Bristol City Council)
19/3/09 Reading (hosted by the Environment Agency)
23/3/09 York (hosted by York City Council)

Further dates may be announced depending on demand. Click here to receive email notification of training sessions and other upcoming AQMRC activities and here to subscribe to the AQMRC Latest News for RSS feed updates.

The Welsh Assembly Government (10/2/2009) and the Scottish Government (13/2/2009) are also hosting LAQM training sessions in Cardiff and Edinburgh respectively. Please contact us for further information on these training sessions.

On Thursday 23^rd January Jim Longhurst will be speaking at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education’s (http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/) training seminar being held at Warwick University.  Jim will speak on the subject of Research and Enterprise in Higher Education.

 

Back in November Jim Longhurst gave an invited talk on the subject of ‘Major environmental challenges and responses’  at the Great Western Research Conference  ‘Future Imperfect’. The film of Jim’s talk can now be viewed as a streamed webcast on the GWR web site at http://www.greatwesternresearch.ac.uk/FutureImperfect.php

 

Enda Hayes, Tim Chatterton and Jim Longhurst were submitted as part of the University’s submission to sub panel 32 Geography and Environmental Studies. 70% of this submission was judged as being of internationally recognised quality or internationally excellent. See the RAE web page at http://www.rae.ac.uk/ and http://www.built-environment.uwe.ac.uk/research/newsDisplayPublic.asp?NewsID=1143&rss=True

 

Promotion to Senior Research Fellow

Congratulations to Dr Enda Hayes on his well deserved promotion to Senior Research Fellow in AQMRC. Read Enda’s web page at  http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/enda.html