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iBEE CONFERENCE – SEPTEMBER 2025
iBEE Conference – “Future Facing Learning: Digital, AI and Skills” Hosted by the RICS at RICS HQ. 11th and 12th September 2025, Westminster. London Click on the Events Tab for full details
CHOBE is here to support and represent, with a voice of influence, those with strategic responsibility for the development and delivery of graduate and postgraduate education and research within the disciplines of construction, property and surveying. 
CHOBE objectives include:
- Developing communities of practice in built environment education to support heads of departments/schools (or nominees) in the UK and Ireland.
- Influencing policy consultation through being the collective contact point for issues around built environment education for external stakeholders and Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies.
- Providing a forum in which people can come together to network, share, and address problems in a supportive and collaborative way.
- Addressing the practical, day-to-day matters associated with learning, teaching and assessment.
- Funding to initiate larger research projects that can have an impact on how we deliver our businesses.
CHOBE Executive
Our executive board for 2024 / 2025
Aled Williams - Chair
University College of Estate Management
Dr Andrew Knight
Nottingham Trent University
Dr Mark Shelborn - Vice Chair
Global Banking School
Professor Nick Morton
Birmingham City University
Dr Richard Laing
Northumbria University
Professor Michaela Keenan
Ulster University
Dr Chaitali Basu
University of the West of England
Dr Sabine Coady-Schaebitz
Coventry University
