Graduation 2020 and 2021 - it finally happened!

 After two years of missing, GRADUATION IS BACK! It was so good to see all the students, families, friends and staff who turned up to celebrate Graduation 2020 and 2021 in person on 18 May and 24 May 2022. Some photos and videos of the extra special day for undergraduate and postgraduate students who graduated from courses in Real Estate, Planning and Construction. Enjoy!

Graduation 2020 (held on 18 May 2022)...

And now for Graduation 2021, held on 24 May 2022...

For more information on any of our courses, take a look at the School of the Built Environment website:

Oxford Brookes School of the Built Environment

School of the Built Environment Graduation 2019

Graduation 2019 took place on a cool Monday 17 June. The ceremonies and reception took place back on the main campus in the newly refurbished Kenneth Wheare Hall and the JHB Building. The photos (and video) show the story of the day - photos and videos by the Ed and Daniel Vicars (Real Estate and Construction) and Uzma Khan (Planning and Urban Design)...

Students from courses in Real Estate or Construction graduated in the first ceremony - the staff are getting ready...

Inside the hall and...

...processing out.

(Some of) the prizes for students in Real Estate and Construction - presented by Ramin Keivani (Head of SBE) 

The Graduation Reception for Real Estate and Construction...

...and for students in Planning and Urban Design... 

...who graduated in the second ceremony of the day.

The traditional hat throwing ceremony...

...and the paparazzi.

That's it until the next round of graduation ceremonies at the end of August. If you would like further information about any of our courses, take a look at our website:

School of the Built Environment website

MSc Historic Conservation: the 2018-19 story

The MSc Historic Conservation has been running at Oxford Brookes for more than 25 years, with each new cohort of students bringing new questions and new insights to the course. Here are some highlights from the 2018-19 academic year. With thanks to David Garrard, the course leader for the photos and text - click on the blue links for more information...

SEPTEMBER: Headington Hill Hall, Oxford –
Induction Day at Oxford Brookes' very own stately home

OCTOBER: Wirksworth, Derbyshire – exploring the labyrinthine back-streets of this ancient
lead-mining town with help from the Wirksworth Heritage Centre

OCTOBER: Ilam Hall, Staffordshire –a night in the surviving wing of a vast
Regency Gothick mansion, now a youth hostel… with board games!

NOVEMBER: Broad Street, Oxford –
an introduction to urban morphology in Oxford’s historic centre

DECEMBER: Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford – heritage consultant Nicholas Worlledge shows us around this 18th-century former hospital site, now redeveloped by Oxford University

FEBRUARY: Hampton Court Palace, Surrey – a rooftop tour of the great Tudor and
Stuart royal residence, courtesy of Historic Royal Palaces

MARCH: Mapledurham, Oxfordshire – a hands-on tutorial in traditional lime mortar techniques from conservation contractors IJP Owlsworth

MARCH: Stanton Harcourt Manor, Oxfordshire –
undertaking a measured survey of the medieval great kitchen

MAY: Weald and Downland Museum, West Sussex – inspecting timber repairs at Bayleaf,
a 15th-century yeoman’s house now reconstructed as an open-air museum exhibit

MAY: St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London – a peek at William Hogarth’s famous painted
staircase of the 1730s, courtesy of the Friends of St Bart’s

JUNE: Oxford Brookes University –
some of this year’s MSc graduates celebrate the conclusion of their studies

For more information about the MSc Historic Conservation take a look at our website or the information on this blog:

MSc Historic Conservation on the website
MSc Historic Conservation on the blog

We have also spent the last year making a course video - you can watch the result here:

School of the Built Environment Graduation 2017

Graduation 2017 took place on one of the hottest days of the year, Monday 19 June. The actual ceremony took place in a transformed sports centre and the reception in the beautiful grounds of Headington Hill Hall. Which meant that the students and staff had to walk across Headington Hill Bridge...and I was there to catch them.

School of the Built Environment staff outside the sports centre

Waiting on the bridge...

...the students...

...and staff.

And in the grounds of Headington Hill Hall...

...celebrating

...the paparazzi

Prizes being handed out by (a very hot) Professor Joe Tah (Head of School)

Where's everybody gone? Retreating into the shade as the day got hotter...

Now that you've graduated, don't forget to keep in touch. Join one of our alumni groups on LinkedIn/Facebook...a great way of keeping in touch with your mates and the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes. We use our groups to post job opportunities, source mentors (for the Real Estate Mentoring Scheme), share news and to use your experiences to inform our course development, so make sure you join!

LinkedIn: Real Estate Management
LinkedIn: Construction, QS and Project Management
Facebook: Planning and Urban Design

Finally, for a full set of photos, take a look at the Graduation and Prizes 2017 album on the School of the Built Environment Facebook page.