Seán O’Reilly said: “This new MA represents an important and rapidly growing strand within the conservation sector. It is part of a wider trend that we can see across a number of the courses we endorse, or ‘recognise’, as part of our quality assurance programme for education standards in conservation. It is clear that courses such as that proposed at Sheffield, linked to more pro-active approaches to conservation, can sit comfortably beside existing conservation courses. They respond to the same skills sets that fall within the wide range required for successful conservation, and build on the international reputation that Britain’s existing courses have worked so hard to secure.
Skills for effective conservation-led regeneration are central our membership criteria, our ‘Areas of Competence’, while we see the same wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary interests in submissions to the IHBC’s award for students with conservation interests, the IHBC Gus Astley Annual Award, currently open for submission for 2010. It is crucial that the interests of future professionals and the wider industry are represented by developments such as these.”
The new MA in Conservation and Regeneration addresses the sustainable management and development of historic buildings and spaces and takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on expertise in historic built environments, conservation policy, urban history, contextual design approaches and community engagement.
The programme can be studied part-time or full-time and will appeal to students from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds. For further information, please visit http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture2010 or contact Dr Jo Lintonbon (Programme Coordinator) on 0114 2220347 or j.lintonbon@sheffield.ac.uk
Sheffield University Masters Progs: LINK
For the IHBC Gus Astley Annual Student Award see the IHBC’s dedicated website at: LINK
