To tackle the climate and nature crisis, people need the skills, knowledge and tools to take action across the world for a better future. Meet a current CAT student using their learning to make positive change happen.
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Learning By Doing
Programme Leader Dr Carl Meddings gives an insight into what final-year students on CAT’s professionally accredited Masters in Sustainable Architecture (ARB Part 2) have been up to over the last few years.
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More than 190 CAT graduates celebrate their graduation
On 20 July we celebrated another impressive graduating class, with CAT graduates and their guests joining us online and on-site for Graduation.
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CAT Conversations – Dr Frances Hill
We recently interviewed Dr Frances Hill, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for CAT’s MSc Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management, about her work teaching at our Graduate School.
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CAT Stories – Edward Macdonald
Around the globe, a community of changemakers is putting the knowledge, skills and networks they have gained at CAT into positive action on the climate and nature crisis. This time, we share CAT graduate Edward Macdonald’s story.
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Designs for Life
Through CAT’s MArch Sustainable Architecture course, students take a genuinely collaborative approach to improving life in an urban environment. Gwyn Stacey, Senior Lecturer, and Dr Carl Meddings, Programme Leader, explain the impact this unique course has on both students and the communities they engage with.
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CAT Stories – Aber Food Surplus
Aber Food Surplus was co-founded by CAT graduate Chris Woodfield, and at our recent CAT Graduate symposium he joined a panel group to share advice based on his journey. He shares his inspiring story with us.
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Changing how we think about food
Co-founded by CAT graduate Chris Woodfield, Aber Food Surplus is a social enterprise on a mission to help their local community to revalue and reconnect with food. Catriona Toms reports.
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Future plans taking shape
A major project to create an innovative sustainable skills hub and inspiring new visitor experience at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is continuing to be developed.
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Why we teach… community solar
Next in our series looking at themes and topics explored by students on CAT Masters degrees, Alan Owen introduces community solar, which we teach to students on a number of our postgraduate courses, including our Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management MSc.
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