Setting sail in a kayak made of aerospace waste materials
When I first decided to create a kayak made from aerospace waste materials and compete in the gruelling Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race, I realised that the risks were high - I honestly didn't know ...
Sunflowers to save us: repairing contaminated land and powering our homes
We know our land is valuable, but we haven’t always valued it in the past. Currently, there are more than 400 million hectares of contaminated or abandoned land (that's roughly 400 million rugby pitches). Obviously ...
Tata Steel, State Aid and Brexit
Ruth was interviewed on Radio 5 Live Breakfast show on 31 March, discussing why the Government could not give State aid to save Tata Steel, and how this might be affected if the UK were to ...
‘Drones for Good’: Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) helping investigators gather evidence and prevent future accidents
Photo: DJI S1000 “Octocopter” Drone scans a demo accident site outside Martell House, Cranfield University Accident sites are often dangerous or difficult places to work. There are always hazards that will require the accident investigator to ...
Sustainable manufacturing and the factories of the future: small, smart and social?
The future of factories is small, smart and social. We’ve come to assume that efficiency in manufacturing is the result of economies of scale from large, centralised operations, speed and standardisation. But a combination of new ...
Male middle managers must see gender equality as business-critical
It is often presumed that the lack of women in senior positions is, at least in part, due to the lack of female role models. While role models are clearly important for women and men ...
The circular economy hack_dif hackathon: three venues, three continents, one 48 hour challenge…
Last Friday afternoon our Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D) was one of three locations, on three different continents, playing host to designers, researchers, innovators and engineers who united to try and solve a circular ...
Doing Good, Doing Well 2016 – Cranfield goes to Barcelona…
Being a financial assurance professional, when I first heard about the 'Doing Good, Doing Well' conference in Barcelona what came to my mind was transparency, ethical conduct and corporate social responsibility disclosures in financial statements. My experiences ...
Water footprint is the answer: what’s the question?
If you ask someone over dinner, “did you know that 7,000 litres of the world’s water have been consumed to bring the beef steak to your plate, but only 42 litres to provide the potatoes?” ...