Environment
Finding your tribe: “Joining the sustainability community was the best decision”
For students on Cranfield’s Sustainability Business Specialist Apprenticeship, community and camaraderie is a vital component for success. Designed in consultation with industry, the part-time Level 7 apprenticeship aims to deepen participants’ knowledge of the ...
“My sustainability studies gave me the confidence to take on Amazon”
Not everyone would have the confidence to challenge a big global power like Amazon but, for Colin Featherstone, Senior Technology Manager and Tech Sustainability Lead at Morrisons, his Cranfield studies equipped him with the ...
In the tyre tracks of the Edwardian geologists
In April 1905 a group of amateur geologists loaded their cumbersome bicycles on to a north-bound train at a London rail station and set off for Bedfordshire on a field excursion. In March 2024 a ...
My journey as a Cranfield Environmental Engineering MSc student
Excited, surprised, and overjoyed are just a few of the emotions I experienced upon receiving the life-changing news that I had been awarded a fully funded scholarship to study at Cranfield University. It left ...
Why I chose the Sustainability Business Specialist Apprenticeship
“Before I came to sustainability, I didn’t consider myself a ‘green’ person,” reflects Cranfield Level 7 Apprenticeship student Nicola Coles. “I thought sustainability was a discipline on its own. “But, since studying for the ...
Using strategic foresight techniques to think about our future food system
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine you’re sitting down for dinner in the year 2050. What’s on your plate? Maybe alternative protein is the centrepiece of your meal, whether that’s crickets sprinkled ...