Working at Cranfield
An unexpected voyage to St. Kilda
Stefano: Kennedy famously said that the Americans chose to go to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard. We chose to sail a 43 feet yacht, with a relatively inexperienced ...
Cranfield – the beginning and the end of 11 wonderful years in the UK
In 2008 I arrived in the UK to study my Master’s in design and Innovation for Sustainability at the Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D) at Cranfield. At that time, I never could have imagined ...
Meeting the bees
It’s not every day you get the chance to don a beekeeping suit and get up-close and personal with the local bees at your place of work, but in June, that’s exactly what I did. ...
Cranfield’s National Flying Laboratory Classroom – up in the air
How better to learn about aerodynamics, than by experiencing them in flight? Andy Foster, Senior Lecturer, Cranfield University, explains the role of the institution’s unique Jetstream 31 ‘flying classroom’ - which is now aimed to ...
Personal time machine
Angelisa Allen takes part in a research project into self-driving vehicles and starts imagining what she could do with the extra time they would create on her daily commute. “What would I do with two ...
Talking STEM with Jane Hodgkinson
What do you do on a typical day (if there is such a thing)? You’re right, there is really no such thing. I always drop my kids off at school and then either cycle in ...