Stepping Out – Women in Leadership Conference
Reflecting on this school year as it comes to an end, I'm so excited to see how much our humble little Women in Leadership group has grown. The culmination of our efforts was our end ...
Tackling food waste on World Food Day
What would you do with £700? If you live in the UK, believe it or not you’ll likely throw it in the bin. The average UK family wastes up to £700 per year on wasted ...
Family business and logistics: Alena Laskova’s entrepreneurial view
Alena Laskova works at Lasek transport and logistics, a family business established by her father in the Czech Republic. Being one of the authorised signatories of the company, she holds an important responsibility to ensure the ...
Submarine hunter by day, PhD student by night
Completing a PhD part-time at Cranfield Defence and Security is allowing me to earn an income while studying and means that I’ve not lost sight of the ‘real world’, which has helped to ground my ...
How big tech can anticipate its responsibilities
“The Circle” is a powerful albeit dystopian novel by the American writer Dave Eggers, about an eponymous fictional Internet company. Think Google, Apple, LinkedIn and more rolled into one. The novel follows the central character ...
From freight-forwarder to lecithin trader: Levan Merkviladze’s entrepreneurial supply chain business
Levan Merkviladze is the co-founder and Head of Business Development at Seven Lines (www.7lines.biz). He is currently in the final year of his Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (Executive) at Cranfield School of Management. ...
The Autonomous Vehicle battle between AI and its application in the real world
Performance artist James Bridle caused a flurry of interest - and delight - with his video clip “Autonomous trap 001”. In the film, a white circle is made on a side road using salt, a full circle on ...
Who were the humans buried on Rat Island?
One of them could have been a convicted criminal or murderer. One was likely a clay pipe smoker, and another had damage to his shoulder similar to that found on skeletons thought to be archers ...
New Operating Models – do they deliver the claimed benefits? (Or, never place rocks next to hard places!)
On our travels, we often see organisations declaring they’re using new operating models (or they’re about to). Someone, somewhere will have done some calculations, simulations or forecasting and arrived at the conclusion “we need to ...
Agrifood on tour: bringing science to life!
Throughout the year my Agrifood team and I travel around the world to raise awareness of Cranfield’s research and teaching expertise. Central to this is our participation in outreach activities, and this year has been ...