Logistics and Procurement Supply Chain Management bowling night
Hi everyone Before I start my first post, I would like to introduce myself, so you guys can have an idea as to what I am doing and who I am! My name is Kelly ...
An aspirational toilet for the most deprived & vulnerable
An estimated 2.4 billion people live without improved sanitation, with one in ten people having no choice but to defecate in the open, and diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 315,000 children ...
Green Week, 14 – 18 November – top tips for reducing food waste
The University produces around 70 tonnes of food waste per year. This week it's Green Week, so here are a few tips to save food and money... Did you know that each year we send ...
Micro-factories: are they the future of manufacturing?
Developing economies have the prize consumers: new wealth and hunger to catch-up with developed world lifestyles. And even more significantly, at the bottom of the pyramid are estimated to be 4 billion people on low ...
Use versus ownership: sustainability and smart manufacturing
Predictions for the future of manufacturing tend to focus on fast, adaptable networked systems and customised delivery. But that’s still taking the availability of resources as a given. Ideally, and alongside the high-tech advances, we ...
Do views mean votes? A review of political ads from the 2016 US Presidential election
In 1952, when the first presidential campaign spots were screened on US television, few would have predicted how influential they would become in deciding the race not just to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue but to every ...
“The Innovation One” – A better life in rural areas
Love it or loathe it, the EU has had a profound effect on the lives and livelihoods of all its citizens. One such area is in agricultural policy, which looks to balance the needs of ...
Showcasing my Cranfield research at outreach events
More than 200 years of industrialisation has left a legacy of contaminated sites across Europe. According to the European Environment Agency, some three million sites in our continent alone are affected by potentially polluting activities, ...
The misunderstood vulture can’t go the way of the dodo
Vultures are a keystone species facing an alarming decrease in numbers globally. They do have something of an image problem, however; these scavenging birds feed on the carcasses of dead mammals, and given this gruesome ...
Applying the skills learned during my MSc in Forensic Investigation
Ever since I undertook the ‘Forensic Exploitation and Intelligence’ module I wanted to try and pursue a career in this field. Steve Johnson, one of my Cranfield lecturers, was very helpful in pointing me in ...