New perspectives in WASH
On the 20th September we hosted the 2nd ECR WASH conference: “New perspectives in WASH” at the Cranfield Campus. This conference was primarily organised by PhD students of the Water Science Institute. The conference as ...
First module experience on Future Food Sustainability MSc
I am glad I chose Cranfield University for my postgraduate studies. As I was going through the list of universities a year ago, Cranfield stood out for this one reason; its close partnership and links ...
My first few weeks as a mature student
The last few weeks since I started studying Geographical Information Management MSc at Cranfield have been hard work but fun. I recently left my job at MINI where I worked for over 15 years when ...
From Ecologist to Environmental Manager
For the past five years, I’ve been training as an ecologist and had some fantastic adventures (like feeding Baraka - picture above!). However, last summer I decided it was time to leave the ecologist world ...
Airport Emergency Exercise; view from the runway
Since working at Cranfield over the last four years, I have never seen a request for volunteers for an airport emergency exercise, so I jumped at the chance. I thought there would be lots of ...
Expanding the World Soil Survey Archive and Collection (WOSSAC)
Cranfield University's World Soil Survey Archive and Collection (WOSSAC), has recently acquired a valuable collection of documents and maps which ensures the status of this unique resource centre as the principle collection of soil and ...
From a trip to MediaCom to working on a Marketing Consultancy Project – it’s an exciting year ahead on the Strategic Marketing MSc
Orientation week… We have started the academic year on a high. The height of excitement during orientation week for me, apart from getting to know our new cohort of course :) was our student and ...
“It’s for the journey”
You may recall, “It’s for the journey”, was an advertising campaign for a bank that now no longer exists (at least in the form that it was). Why did that bank come off the rails? ...
Sheep-dipping, Centres of Competence, Infective Networks and Other stories
Up Till Now: Until recently, during our trials and tribulations working on Business Change Programmes, we have come across two main-stream approaches to driving new learning throughout an organisation: So-called Sheep-dipping approach: This ...
Missed the screening of “Paywall: The Business of Scholarship”? Watch it on your desktop
If you missed the Library Service's screening of "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship” on Wednesday 19 September, you can now watch it direct from your desktop. Paywall gives you the inside track on the big ...