Living your dream
The past ten weeks have been very busy for me but really fulfilling as I got to experience what it means to live your dream. I finally made it to Cranfield University, my university of ...
A peak into Food Safety and Quality management and certification
My name is Inga Ósk and I come from Iceland. Before I came to Cranfield I had graduated from University of Akureyri with BSc in biotechnology. After I graduated I got a job in a ...
My PhD funded by the Sue White Fund: ‘Sensing charcoal making and understanding links to deforestation in Tanzania.’
The charcoal business in Tanzania is widely spread but the activity is not regulated, and the level and distribution of charcoal kilns are not well known. Studies show that charcoal making causes deforestation and pollution, ...
First months as a Design Thinking MDes student
I was previously a student in a French engineering school, and I specialised in materials and mechanical engineering. For my last year of studies, I wanted to find alternatives as I wanted to ...
No cluster is an island: How Brexit threatens Motorsport Valley
Britain’s Motorsport Valley has been described as a ‘jewel in the crown’ of British manufacturing by no less an authority than Harvard’s Professor Michael Porter, perhaps best known for identifying national and regional sources of ...
Being a real life crime scene investigator: Blog 1 – Life before Cranfield
The first crime scene I ever attended was on a hot summer’s day in 2012: a male living alone in a storage facility, decomposed beyond facial recognition and in the perceptible ‘bloat’ stage of decomposition. ...
Cranfield University: the beginning of an auspicious future
My name is Miguel and I come from Spain. I have been studying Agronomic Engineering for the last five years at Córdoba University. Within this bachelor’s degree I focused my studies on the food chain ...
British Standards and ISO standards demystified
We are frequently asked how to find ISO (International Standards Organisation) standards. The best way to find them is to go straight to our British Standards Online (BSOL) service. Why go to British Standards if you ...
The Commonwealth-Cranfield Experience
Hi guys, I am Daniel F. Akrofi, an Environmental Scientist from the Republic of Ghana with passion for green spaces and the environment as a whole. This edge to see a cleaner environment led me ...
Spending on the elderly – how should we interpret the numbers?
Radio 4 yesterday morning presented figures collated from analysis by the BBC on how the spending in England per head on those over 65 has fallen by approximately 25% in real terms since 2010. That ...