IAH Student Retreat 2011

Borrowdale Youth Hostel

Students are a very important part of our Institute and their ideas and opinions are highly valued.

To demonstrate this, on 1-2 April 2011 the IAH organised a retreat weekend to which all postgraduate students in the Institute were invited. The main aim of the retreat was for everyone to join in and get to know their fellow students in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. To facilitate this there were organised outdoor activities and team building events, including gorge scrambling, indoor climbing and fell walking, plus a quiz, games and generally lots of fun.

There was also a short session where we asked the participants to give us their suggestions about how we can improve the learning and research environment for postgraduate students. This session produced some useful and thought provoking ideas which will be given serious consideration and those that are practicable will be implemented wherever possible.

The event was a huge success and the feedback from those who attended has been very positive.  The one resounding message from the retreat has been, “Please organise more of these events!”

Some photos are below - more can be found on the IAH Student Committee Facebook page