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Our Library Services staff run a wide range of webinars and in-person workshops to support your work and boost your success at Cranfield. They cover topics including using our databases effectively, referencing, study skills, the ...
Tags: barrington, knl, Lunch+Learn, SOMLibrary, webinars, workshops|05/12/2023
UN World Soil Day on 5 December is a vital reminder of the importance of soil in all our lives. Supporting growth of the food we eat; cleaning the water we drink; supporting the foundations ...
Tags: landis, soil, soilscapes|04/12/2023
SOM Library customers, did you know that you can reserve items on Library Search and then pick them up at any time of the day or night from our SOM Library locker using your University ...
Tags: access, books, borrowing, mirc, new students, SOMLibrary|04/12/2023
References for journal articles are one of the most used reference types for postgraduate research as these sources are frequently used in assignments. In the NLM Numbered Referencing Guide they are listed under periodicals. Periodicals ...
Tags: barrington, ejournals, journal articles, knl, NLM, referencing|01/12/2023
Growing up in Southampton with her father, an Air Cadet Instructor, Kathy had an interest in aviation from an early age and was committed to join the Royal Air Force from the age of ...
Tags: aviation, Safety and Human Factors in Aviation MSc, SATM, student experience, student journey|29/11/2023
Richard Robinson, a Chevening Scholar, completed his course in Counterterrorism MSc in the Summer of 2023. Before traveling to Cranfield from Montego Bay, Richard was the Head of School for the Caribbean Special Tactics ...
Tags: alumni, cds, cranfield defence and security, cranfield forensic institute, student experience, student journey|29/11/2023
Life on campus
A year ago I was making the decision that changed my life: I decided to join Cranfield University for the MSc in Strategic Marketing. The photo on the left shows the first time I visited ...
28/02/2018
Cranfield, a place I couldn’t initially find on the map just six months back, is now my home. No matter how much I complain about the apparently boring and mundane daily life here, I am ...
Tags: campus environment, campus life, diversity, life on campus|14/02/2018
Within two years of starting my bachelor’s degree I knew I wanted to pursue a research and academia-based career. The journey that has unfolded through the course of me realising this path has brought me ...
12/02/2018
I arrived at the office on the morning of April 7, 2017 to go about my regular work day. Little did I know of the surprise to come. Finally, the email dropped…the acceptance email from ...
Tags: “Cranfield”, finance, investment, life on campus, management, msc, school of management|08/02/2018
I grew up around 20 minutes away from Liverpool airport and as a kid I became fascinated with planes and plane spotting. This fascination grew as I watched documentaries like Air Accident Investigation but when ...
02/02/2018
As I travel to Tuscany in Italy, sitting by the window in the train, looking out at the picturesque hills, it seems an ideal time for me to write about all things Cranfield, to appreciate ...
Tags: “Cranfield”, campus life, cranfield school of management, management, new students, postgraduate, study routine, varied cohort|22/01/2018
Libraries
You may find it helpful to look at examples of past Cranfield theses when you are writing your own. They may be valuable for reading previous research, and for looking at the structure, style and ...
Tags: barrington, ceres, knl, library search, mta, SOMLibrary, theses|28/07/2023
If you have never investigated it before, Knovel is a handy resource created for engineers by engineers. A new Engineering Newsfeeds feature has been added which makes it easy to keep track of industry news. ...
Tags: barrington, keeping up to date, knl, Knovel, news|27/07/2023
University life involves a serious amount of reading and writing. We study the work of other people to inform ourselves about a topic. When we then re-use that knowledge to create our own work, we ...
Tags: academic writing, APA7, referencing, SOMLibrary|27/07/2023
We are running a Lunch+Learn webinar on using DMPonline on Monday 31 July, 1-2pm. A data management plan (DMP) is a written document that outlines how research data will be collected, organized, stored, shared, and preserved ...
Tags: barrington, data management planning, data management plans, DMP, knl, rdm, SOMLibrary|25/07/2023
Great news! Library Services has just renewed two major Read and Publish deals which allow Cranfield authors to make their work open access by covering much of the costs involved. It has taken a while ...
Tags: barrington, knl, OA, open access, publishing, research publishing, SOMLibrary|17/07/2023
On the hunt for ESG data and don't know where to start? Make Bloomberg your first port of call! Whether you're looking for a quick report on the key facts and figures or you want ...
Tags: Bloomberg, business and the environment, cranfield school of management, data, esg, governance, mirc, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-company, web-mirc-finance|10/07/2023