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Recent MSc Sustainable Heritage students secure roles in industry after studies
1 November 2018
The Institute for Sustainable Heritage is thrilled to announce that four recent students of the MSc Sustainable Heritage programmes took up new roles as their studies came to an end.
Eleni Triantafyllidou
Eleni Triantafyllidou did a summer internship at Arup and recently joined their environmental team as a heritage consultant. As part of her role, she provides cultural and built heritage advice to Highways England, London Legacy Development Corporation and Costain Skanska joint venture. Currently, she's acting as a heritage specialist in regards to the HS2 noise insulation scheme for listed properties in London.
Sohini Nandi
Sohini Nandi got an internship as Heritage Placement Trainee at Historic England (London). She carried out research and delivered reports on how heritage can contribute towards providing small site housing in London and how such developments can help to preserve and enhance historic environments. She also continues to work in collaboration on different projects as a researcher with Envoy Partnership on socio-cultural impact assessment of new builds.
Yixin Jin
Yixin Jin is currently working as an intern at WHITRAP (World Heritage Institute of Training and Research-Asia and Pacific), Shanghai, one of the category II centres under the auspices of UNESCO. She is mainly engaged in the “International meeting and research on Small Settlements in China, South and South-East Asia” project, and also helped with the organisation of the “Training on Heritage Impact Assessments” course held during Oct 15-26, 2018.
Luz Frias Hernandez
Luz Frias Hernandez had an exciting placement at Historic England as part of the Listing Team. She undertook the project ‘Understanding our national heritage through the local lens: Enriching the List with oral history’. She visited three Heritage Action Zones in London in order to capture community memories in form of interviews with the aim of appreciating why people value the built heritage and add these unrecorded stories to the National Heritage List of England. This was a fantastic opportunity to develop new skills, promoting local heritage while interacting with various stakeholders