Innovation Fest 2026: Industry Mentorship — Bridging Academia and Practice

Talebi, S. (Organiser)
Dilakshana Mayadunne (Organiser)

Department of Architecture and Built Environment

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Description

A session delivered during BCU's Innovation Fest 2026, in which an industry mentor (Associate Director, BWB) shared their experience of the structured industry mentorship programme with staff and fellow industry partners. The session explored how industry professionals mentor final-year students through their dissertations across quantity surveying, infrastructure, urban planning, and construction management, connecting student academic research with live industry realities and demonstrating the programme's value as a replicable model of industry-academia collaboration and enterprise-integrated pedagogy.

Period	19 May 2026
Event type	Conference
Location	Birmingham , United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National