Region. UWS professor wins top award

Professor Graeme Newell, from the UWS School of Economics and Finance, has been awarded the European Real Estate Society (ERES) Achievement Award, in recognition for his significant contributions to the organisation over a ten-year period. Associate professor, Robyn McGuiggan, executive dean of the UWS College of Business, he has succeeded in putting UWS on the map of the global property sector. In May, Professor Newell was awarded the American Real Estate Society (ARES) Distinguished Service Award - the first time that the major international prize had been awarded to a non-American academic in the award's 22-year history.