Josephine Burgin Vice-Chancellor’s Prize 2019
Cranfield is a truly unique university and I never expected my time studying here to prove to be such a significant year in my life. I came to Cranfield demotivated with my current field of ...
Meet Cranfield Defence and Security, 3MT competition winner
An interview with Cranfield Defence and Security 3MT competition winner, PhD student Sarah Gosling. Developed by Queensland University, the 3MT competition challenges research students to concisely articulate their research to a non-specialist audience in just ...
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. ...
Media Reporting & Kindergarten Statistics
The BBC reported this problem less than a week ago It dished up the usual typical fayre of poor analysis of the available data. When you put the data (which is published yearly back to ...
Catching up with Phil Renshaw…
Hi there. So as we are now in the month of July 2019, closing in on the very end of my PhD journey, it seems like a good time to add to this blog. In ...
A sit down with Doyin Atewologun.
Tackling discrimination in society; The Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Centre. What are the biggest challenges when we think of Gender, Leadership and Inclusion within organisations? “The expression that comes to mind I think of this ...
My journey from Saudi Arabia to Cranfield and beyond!
With my background in production and design of mechanical systems, I was sponsored by my employer (Saudi Ministry of Defence) to study at Cranfield, to help further my career within mechanical maintenance through the experience ...
A muddy river in a bigger picture
Two years ago I completed my PhD at Cranfield University. Now, after a postdoc at University of Leeds, I am back at Cranfield working on a NERC-funded project on social-economic-environmental trade-offs in managing the land-river ...
Wood in rivers affects invertebrate community traits
The bed of a river is an important habitat for invertebrates with a diverse range of organisms living within and on the sediment. These invertebrate communities may appear similar at different locations within a river ...
Human skeletal analysis in Ibiza.
This June 2019, Cranfield Forensic Institute staff Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant and two MSc in Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology students, Thora Gundersen and Louise Tonks, worked in Ibiza for almost three weeks. Ibiza, of course, famous ...