Standing on my soapbox for women in STEM
On a notoriously wet lockdown December’s day in 2020, I came across Soapbox Science. A platform promoting women in science? A platform to get my research out to the masses? Yes please. Soapbox Science is ...
Is a PhD for me?
My friends often ask me why I chose to study a PhD and why particularly resource recovery from wastewater (How I simplify my title ‘Enhancing biomineral production for resource recovery from wastewater using biocatalysts’). Initially, ...
Why doing a PhD is not a waste of time!
“Academics tend to regard asking whether a PhD is worthwhile as analogous to wondering whether there is too much art or culture in the world.” from The Economist I always believed that the PhD is ...
My Design Thinking thesis
Hello, I am Jia Yu and I am a student on the Design Thinking MDes. For my final thesis project during my master studies, I worked with a company and provided design services based on ...
My pursuit for green energy…
The pursuit of green energy is an exciting journey, which can span across exploring different alternate energy sources that help us fight against climate change, and renewables are the key to achieving net-zero emissions as ...
What are repositories and why are they useful?
An open access repository is a digital repository where the content is freely available to download and reuse (sometimes with restrictions), where no login or subscription is required. An institutional research repository is a digital repository for the storage ...
Tackling unhealthy grocery shopping – how my thesis is preparing me for my academic career
When the thesis topics were published, I instantly knew which project I wanted to work on: Moving from the Eatwell guide to a Food shopping guide. The Eatwell Guide is a dietary guide from the ...
Why we need connected resilience
Covid-19 shouldn’t have been a surprise. A global pandemic has been at the top of the list of likely threats, the National Risk Register, for years, and has been in the scientific literature for at ...
Making a difference when and where it matters most
To mark World Humanitarian Day, we caught up with Rusudan Gongladze (MSc Procurement and Supply Chain Management, 2019) to find out more about how studying humanitarian logistics at Cranfield kick-started a career ambition to help ...
Afghanistan: History told us what to expect
As U.S. troops prepare to exit Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the Taliban has launched a massive offensive across the country, taking over large swathes of territory. This has forced the Afghan government and its ...