My dream to study phosphorus
My passion for farming from young age drove me to agricultural college. After my first and second degree I have been involved with smallholder farmers making sure they get the best out of their fields, ...
Go big or go home!
For the third two-week module of the Water and Sanitation for Development MSc, students were given the exciting task of participating in an urban water utility simulation. WaterMan is an activity which simulates the financial ...
Field trip – 4 water treatment facilities in 3 days
Scotland is a place I have always wanted to visit; although it is supposed to be colder than Mediterranean countries, I always felt there is something special to it. Maybe it was for its graphic ...
Sanitation… small actions big impact
For the past two weeks, I have been exploring the Hygiene, Health and Sanitation module of my course Water and Sanitation for Development MSc and my oh my, it is mind-blowing. This is a field ...
Living your dream
The past ten weeks have been very busy for me but really fulfilling as I got to experience what it means to live your dream. I finally made it to Cranfield University, my university of ...
A peak into Food Safety and Quality management and certification
My name is Inga Ósk and I come from Iceland. Before I came to Cranfield I had graduated from University of Akureyri with BSc in biotechnology. After I graduated I got a job in a ...
My PhD funded by the Sue White Fund: ‘Sensing charcoal making and understanding links to deforestation in Tanzania.’
The charcoal business in Tanzania is widely spread but the activity is not regulated, and the level and distribution of charcoal kilns are not well known. Studies show that charcoal making causes deforestation and pollution, ...
First months as a Design Thinking MDes student
I was previously a student in a French engineering school, and I specialised in materials and mechanical engineering. For my last year of studies, I wanted to find alternatives as I wanted to work in ...
No cluster is an island: How Brexit threatens Motorsport Valley
Britain’s Motorsport Valley has been described as a ‘jewel in the crown’ of British manufacturing by no less an authority than Harvard’s Professor Michael Porter, perhaps best known for identifying national and regional sources of ...
Being a real life crime scene investigator: Blog 1 – Life before Cranfield
The first crime scene I ever attended was on a hot summer’s day in 2012: a male living alone in a storage facility, decomposed beyond facial recognition and in the perceptible ‘bloat’ stage of decomposition. ...