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On Wednesday 21 January, the Cranfield Student Association (CSA) played host to a significant occasion: our first-ever Student Funding scholarship celebration. Hosted by Diane Blything (Assistant Registrar) and Gill Ireland (Student ...
Tags: british council women in STEM, Chevening scholarship, Commonwealth Shared Scholarship, great scholarship, student funding|03/02/2026
I’ve learnt to be flexible and try new things – you never know where it could take you to! Hello! My name is Sophie and I’m studying MSc Air Transport Management. Why did ...
03/02/2026
Hi, I’m Kavithanjali Uthayashangar and I’m here to tell you about my journey into environmental engineering. It began with a simple but powerful motivation: a desire to understand how engineering can ...
29/01/2026
What’s it really like to study Air Transport Management at Cranfield? Adit walks us through a typical day, assignment expectations, and the excitement of hands-on group projects. This is the second of three blog ...
Tags: air transport management, alumni, campus life|29/01/2026
If you’re tasked with researching a company, your first port of call might be to search Fame or EBSCO Business Source Complete. Your immediate reaction might not be to look at Factiva. However, for larger ...
Tags: company information, dmda, ecbs, factiva, knl, mirc, muscat, news, newspapers, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-company|29/01/2026
Secondary referencing is used when you’re reading a work which includes a quotation from another author, and you – the researcher – can’t obtain the original source. We always advise, where possible, to try to ...
Tags: barrington, knl, NLM, referencing|22/01/2026
Life on campus
I’ve learnt to be flexible and try new things – you never know where it could take you to! Hello! My name is Sophie and I’m studying MSc Air Transport Management. Why did ...
03/02/2026
When I first arrived at Cranfield, I had no idea that one year later I would be standing at the heart of our student community, serving as President of the Cranfield Student Association (CSA). ...
Tags: cranfield students association, cranfield university, student experience, student life, student support, sustainability|08/01/2026
My personal motto is: Engineering for everyone, communities thrive when women build. It’s a reminder of why I chose this path and why I’m committed to making space for more women in engineering ...
Tags: Commonwealth Scholarship, environmental engineering, international student, student funding, women in engineering, women in stem|17/11/2025
I want to be an astronaut! I know how farfetched that might sound but it’s been my dream since I was 8 years old. I have always been fascinated by how materials are engineered ...
Tags: Advanced Materials|12/11/2025
The first few weeks at Cranfield have been a whirlwind of new ideas, new faces, and the sheer excitement of finally tackling the universe's most complex challenges. As I settle into the MSc in ...
05/11/2025
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment my interest in motorsport truly began. I didn’t grow up around racetracks or garages, and in Kenya, a career in motorsport is practically unheard of. But looking ...
03/11/2025
Libraries
If you’re tasked with researching a company, your first port of call might be to search Fame or EBSCO Business Source Complete. Your immediate reaction might not be to look at Factiva. However, for larger ...
Tags: company information, dmda, ecbs, factiva, knl, mirc, muscat, news, newspapers, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-company|29/01/2026
Secondary referencing is used when you’re reading a work which includes a quotation from another author, and you – the researcher – can’t obtain the original source. We always advise, where possible, to try to ...
Tags: barrington, knl, NLM, referencing|22/01/2026
Just as you cite and reference sources in written work, you should also acknowledge the sources you use or quote in oral presentations. Citing your sources in presentations provides your audience with information about the ...
Tags: barrington, knl, referencing|19/01/2026
Whilst blog posts do not fall into the scholarly material category, they can be useful for providing personal insights into a particular area. For example, there may be a high-profile member of an industry who ...
Tags: barrington, knl, NLM, referencing|15/01/2026
Whether you're analysing industry performance, or comparing company financials, Datastream is a powerful tool. One of its most useful features is the ability to work with constituent lists — collections of companies grouped by index, ...
Tags: company financials, data, datastream, finance, knl, lseg, web-mirc-finance, workspace|08/01/2026
Happy new year! Now is the perfect time to reflect on your studies so far, thinking about what you’re doing well and where you need to focus a bit more attention. Getting back into ‘study ...
Tags: barrington, Bloomberg, knl, linkedin learning, mendeley, referencing, searching, SOMLibrary, study skills|06/01/2026
