Author: Professor James Norman
Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Civil Engineering
Last month we sent in revision 4 of the book. The final manuscript. With no further reviews. It was with a huge sigh of relief and a great sense of ...
November 7, 2023 -
Over the last two days I welcomed into my classroom 500 new students. They are new to University, and teaching first years is also new to me. I have a ...
October 2, 2023 -
On Friday the 23rd June, at 17:27, I sent in the next version of our book for review! At this point maybe a recap would be a good idea. At ...
June 28, 2023 -
What Africa Can Do For Europe Wow, where did the last three months go? Last time I posted was in February, back then we were part way through the process ...
May 24, 2023 -
Radical Engineering Press I’m going to be honest with you. This is less a blog about book writing, and more a holding post. Over the course of the last week ...
February 28, 2023 -
Re writing a book in a week I love writing books. The days sat in a coffee shop, my email turned off, my headphones on, my finger dancing over the ...
January 25, 2023 -
Happy December. This is the last post of the year. It was supposed to be the last post in the series, but as you know, if you’ve been following this ...
December 13, 2022 -
Read the full series Programme: Civil Engineering How is sustainability included in it? Most of the design work in the programme is iterative rather than transformative, with sustainability teaching emerging ...
December 12, 2022 -
Hi, my name is James and I am a regenerative practitioner. You may think this is an odd way to start the 11th blog post on writing a book on ...
November 21, 2022 -
When I was a practicing engineer I would submit reports and drawings for review. Each time they would come back covered in red pen. I would then go through making ...
October 17, 2022 -
A few years back I decided to run 1000 miles in a year. I created a spreadsheet. Logged every run. And it was going amazingly until July/August. I am not ...
September 21, 2022 -
It’s August. The month of time off, promised writing time, and when I imagined we would finish the book. First of all, an apology – today is my first day ...
August 22, 2022 -
This week has been a first for me. I went on a future walk. Participants joined me as we walked around in 2050! We didn’t use a time machine, just ...
July 19, 2022 -
Hi all. For this month’s post I thought I would try and capture my progress over 4 weeks. You will see from the below that this is only 10 days ...
June 20, 2022 -
If April was about not giving up, May is about throwing in the towel. I’m done. Now let’s be clear, I’m not done with writing a book in a year, ...
May 18, 2022 -
It’s just happened again. Someone asks me what I’m working on and I explain that I’m writing a book about regenerative design. The inevitable next two questions come: First, what ...
April 6, 2022 -
So, now the job of writing a book proposal is done. The next job is to actually write it. One might imagine that this involves sitting down and writing a ...
March 16, 2022 -
So, you want to write a book. And so, it’s time to put pen to paper and get writing. Right? Wrong! Before you write the book you need to find ...
February 21, 2022 -
Looking at successes and rejections This post is about James' previous book proposals – because when we write our new proposal we come with a history (hopefully mostly good) and ...
January 11, 2022 -
This is the second section of the CAME tutor plan for 2020/21. Each week comprise a set of instructions and guidelines, with exercises (some optional) intended to support students through ...
September 14, 2021 -
This is the first section of the CAME tutor plan for 2020/21, spanning week 1 in October 2020 to end of December 2020 (week 11) ...
September 13, 2021 -
“Hi My Name is James And for 12 years I designed buildings.” This is how I normally start my lectures, almost regardless of topic. However when I started one of ...
September 1, 2021 -
Last July, I had the pleasure of presenting at the BILT conference ‘Tales from the digital classroom’1. It was a great event with some fantastic presentations and a broad range ...
July 2, 2021 -
James Norman, Associate Professor in Sustainable Design, Department of Civil Engineering. It is 14:16 on Friday afternoon of week 24. The large pile of marking has moved off the horizon ...
May 17, 2021 -