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I'm Caroline Harris, and I work for the Sustainable Business Group and the Bettany Centre of Entrepreneurship. As the Event Coordinator for both teams, I focus on creating and increasing engagement and outreach both internally ...
21/03/2023
The words we use in studying neurodiversity are important. It's easy to get caught up in the conversation about words. This is often generated by not wanting to cause offense or being in search of ...
Tags: disability, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, neurodivergent, neurodiversity|14/03/2023
'Have a solutionist mindset' These words were spoken by Ms Solitaire Townsend, the founder of Futerra, who kicked off the Edie 23 conference Consisting of 130+ speakers and 700+ delegates. To achieve the goals of ...
09/03/2023
Having seen and heard the excitement generated online and around campus about the Exploring Sustainable Futures game, it was with great anticipation that I accepted a recent invitation to participate. Developed within the Cranfield ...
09/03/2023
In March 2023 we caught up with Zeliha Kirik, a student on our Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Engineering MSc who was awarded a British Council Women in STEM scholarship. Why did you choose to ...
Tags: automotive, automotive engineering, autonomous car, autonomous vehicles, british council women in STEM, transport systems|09/03/2023
In 2021 I suffered from Covid-19. To keep myself busy and avoid such thoughts I avoided reading any news on the pandemic. Which was really hard to do during those times! One day, while ...
09/03/2023
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Some of our readers may already be familiar with Bloomberg's News service, available via their website. But did you know that News is also available on Bloomberg terminals? Because it mainly relates to what is happening in the world's financial ...
Tags: Bloomberg, mirc, news, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-news|19/04/2019
The next item I've chosen to highlight best practice use of our research data repository, CORD, is https://doi.org/10.17862/cranfield.rd.5590840. It is an example of work presented at the Defence and Security Doctoral Symposium. Firstly, anyone brave ...
Tags: barrington, cord, cord best practice, knl, mirc, rdm, SOMLibrary|10/04/2019
If you are a full-time student leaving Cranfield to write your thesis or go on a placement, then the Library can help you. We provide our Support Off-Site (S.O.S.) service to those students studying away ...
Tags: knl, mirc, off campus, off site, placement, SOMLibrary, sos, support off site, thesis|05/04/2019
This time I'm looking at an example which takes advantage of the longevity of preservation on CORD and the provision of a DOI for each published item. At https://doi.org/10.17862/cranfield.rd.7655579 you will see the Carbon Brainprint ...
Tags: barrington, cord, cord best practice, knl, mirc, OA, rdm, SOMLibrary|13/03/2019
You’ve written a paper and have got to the task of sharing the underlying data. It’s quite enjoyable once you’re used to the process, but your first time can seem a little awkward, so here’s ...
Tags: barrington, cord, faq, knl, mirc, rdm, SOMLibrary|21/02/2019
The second in my series of favourite items on CORD is the video "When is CO most dangerous". It's under four minutes and summarises the initial findings on the production of CO as charcoal burns. ...
Tags: barrington, cord, cord best practice, knl, mirc, OA, rdm, repository, SOMLibrary|13/02/2019