RREF Round-up: 2022-23 Academic Year
RREF Highlights 2022/23
Pathways to Property Summer School: Record numbers
We had a fantastic week in July at our eleventh Pathways to Property Summer School, with 109 students attending. We had some great lectures, talks and event facilitation delivered by the academic and staff team at Henley Business School, University of Reading, as well as fantastic support throughout the week provided by the Student Ambassadors. We were especially grateful to all the industry volunteers that supported the project during the week - from those manning stalls at the Meet the Industry event, to those who attended the final day's presentations.
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Property Awards 2023
We were delighted to see that Clare Coe (BSc Real Estate (Land Management)) 2009 - was one of the Young Property Personality of the Year winners at this years Property Awards. In addition, Tom Davies and Sam McGirr (both MSc Real Estate 2015) won the Newcomer Award - Commercial Property for their joint venture, Bloom, founded in 2020.
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Richard Upton pioneering student support
Unlike many of his peers, the creative and successful entrepreneur had to support himself through hard work during his studies, which is why he recognises the exceptional financial barriers that students from non-traditional backgrounds now face, from the burden of loans towards fees, to the rising cost of living. To address these challenges and to allow the industry to tap into a broader pool of talent, Richard has established through RREF the AreYou? undergraduate bursary.
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Real Estate Summit: Event & Research Paper
In November 2022 a group of leading and enquiring minds from the industry were brought together by RREF for our first Real Estate Summit. We examined Sustainable Real Estate: A Force for Societal Change in the UK. We have now published our research paper summarising the day. Download it today, and share it with your network.
Read the paper.
Pathways to Property Insight Day
In March we delivered our first Insight Day in Birmingham for year 12 students offering the opportunity to illustrate the range of careers available within the real estate industry. The Insight Days aim to widen the reach of the Pathways project and engage students who may not be able to attend the residential summer school. The students attending the event in Birmingham took part in a site visit within the City, a chance to work on a small project and a Q&A session with current Real Estate students, as well as recent graduates
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RREF Annual Review
Central to RREF’s work is attracting excellence to study at the Department of Real Estate & Planning (REP) at Henley Business School, regardless of the background of individual students. This we are able to do thanks to the collective giving of time and money. This investment enables us to offer a powerful and diverse range of support; from benefiting industry with pioneering academic research, to seed funding for innovative ideas, and the provision of a dynamic network for REP alumni and supporters to leverage. Dowload and read the Annual Review which looked back at 2021/22. An Annual Review of 2022/23 will be published later this year.
Read the Annual Review.
First Global Henley Prop Tech Forum
On Tuesday 8th November 2022, as part of the Managing Change in the Real Estate Sector module, undergraduate students attended the first Global Henley Prop Tech Forum. The event led by Dr Matteo Borghi, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Henley Business School, UK, with the conjoint support of Kee Liang Chin, Chartered Surveyor and Lecturer in Real Estate and Dr Janice Lee, Associate Professor in Real Estate Management from the Henley Business School Malaysia, connected our Reading and Malaysia campuses in real-time seamlessly.
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John Miles Memorial Scholarship
The John Miles Memorial Scholarship Fund was launched in memory of Reading Alumnus John Miles by his former business partners Ben Simpson and Jim Remfry in conjunction with RREF. The scholarship celebrates excellence and rewards outstanding students enrolling on an undergraduate degree with REP. The funding will not only provide support towards the students’ studies for the duration of the 3-year course but in addition successful applicants will be offered mentoring and internship opportunities at Clifton.
Read about the first recipient.
George Fiennes Memorial Bursary
Last year we were delighted to congratulate Felix Fiennes on the successful completion of the Polar Circle Marathon, honouring his father, George Fiennes (Estate Management, 1973) and raising funds towards the George Fiennes Memorial Bursary, managed by RREF. The bursary was established by friends of the late George Fiennes, and is awarded annually to an academically gifted young person studying towards an undergraduate degree in Real Estate & Planning at Reading, for whom the prospect of attending university would present a significant financial challenge.
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