PORT OF SOUTHAMPTON CONGRATULATES WINNING STUDENT PLANNERS
Two University of Southampton students have won praise and cash prizes from Associated British Ports' (ABP) Port of Southampton with their reports on planning, which impressed the port’s management.
Marianne McKiggan and Elina Kivinien were nominated for the ABP prizes by lecturers of the environmental sciences’ degree course.They were judged to have produced the best reports on the potential impact of a hypothetical scenario of regenerating the Fawley Power Station site on Southampton Water into a wind-energy farm.
The two students were awarded £100 each by ABP – an annual prize the Company has been making for the last seven years as part of its support for the University’s degree course.
Marianne’s and Elina’s reports examined all of the possible positive and negative impacts on the area that would need to be assessed in order for local and national authorities to decide whether or not the project should go forward.
Captain James Chestnutt, Harbour Master & Deputy Port Manager of ABP Southampton, presented the prizes; he said:
“Effective scoping studies ensure that developers, communities and local and national authorities are given the ‘shopping list’ of information that they need to make the right and appropriate decisions. It is a very complex exercise, so Marianne and Elinaare to be congratulated on producing such thorough and well-presented reports.”
The University of Southampton’s first-degree BSc course in Environmental Sciences is one of the top courses of its kind in the country, providing students with a well-balanced mix of academic training and practical experience.
Dr Malcolm Hudson, Senior Tutor in Environmental Sciences, said:
“The guest speakers and wealth of information that ABP has provided to the University over the past seven years have been of immense value to the students, who are able to apply their academic work to ‘real-life’ examples of development processes in the area. Planning incorporates a wide range of issues and interests that can be brought to life through links with local businesses, like ABP Southampton.”
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