The EWB-UK National Research Conference is an annual one day event designed to bring together the work and study of EWB-UK research students into the public arena for discussion and debate. This year it will be held again at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on Friday 19th February 2010 thanks to their generosity in continuing to support the EWB-UK Research Programme. The theme of the conference this year is ‘From Small Steps to Giant Leaps...putting research into practice’ and looks to highlight, discuss and hopefully outline some positive steps towards improving the dialogue between researchers and practitioners in the development and humanitarian sectors.

This year we are proud to welcome Sarah Adams, CEO of GVEP International as our first keynote speaker of the day and Victoria Hickman, a PhD researcher studying the international engineering contribution to urban slum upgrading, as our second keynote speaker. We have 21 panellists presenting in four panels under the headings of Energy, Habitat, Water & Sanitation and Putting Research into Practice, as well as a room full of research posters! 

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How to Get There

We are now very excited to announce that for the first time in our history, with the help of HEDON, we will be able to share our annual national Research Conference with you over the internet!  This year we will be hosting the conference papers online in an e-conference format provided by HEDON and invite you read them and post questions, comments and suggestions both before and after the day for our researchers to pick up on the day itself or continue discussions afterwards.  The pre-online discussion will start about a week ahead the conference and the post-online conference will continue for one week after the conference.

If you would like to get involved and help set up the conference please contact us.

Follow this link to see what happened at the Research Conference 2009.