Profile: Sally Jones

Letters this month include discussion on: Late payment of fees, the CM exam pass mark, the recruitment market and the Institution's Structural Awards 2014 event.

Undergraduate course lecturer, Harry Partridge, discusses the importance of developing the more intuitive and creative side of the brain — and describes how a short course in art given to final year civil engineering students at Sydney University has endeavoured to encourage students in this direction.

If your dream job involves castles and stately homes, it's unlikely you would turn your attention to structural engineering. But as Kim Rochard explains, it’s possible to combine the two in the specialised field of conservation engineering. Helena Russell finds out more.