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Water and sanitation – why community is so important
Today we attended Buckingham Palace to pick up a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our research into water and sanitation. It is a real privilege to be recognised in this way, but what is most rewarding ...
The snow, project management, Chinese New Year celebrations and other updates
Greetings from Cranfield 🙂 I am sure you've read Nok's post from two weeks ago - we've had snow here at Cranfield! It's prettier than you'd ever imagine. I had to borrow a few photos from ...
Fatbergs in our sewers – are modern culinary habits to blame?
Food is crucial in our life. Since the Neolithic period, our eating habits have dramatically evolved. Early man lived a nomadic life, hunting and picking fruits and vegetables. The revolution in our ancestors’ lifestyles came ...
Flooding in the Aire: why we can reduce floods in the UK
As a researcher looking at sediment transport and storage in the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme, I need rain. Rain causes surface runoff and runoff causes erosion, which eventually results in sediment transported towards and within the river. When I ...
Reviving UK manufacturing – is cross-sector collaboration the answer?
The British Chambers of Commerce’s Quarterly Economic Survey for Q4 2015, published last week, calls the UK manufacturing sector “close to stagnation” after domestic and export sales and order balances fell below their (2007) pre-recession levels. ...
Entrepreneurship and making water from waste: Bottles for Growth and the Social Venture Challenge
Cranfield University’s Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship recently organised the University’s first Social Venture Challenge, a start-up weekend aimed at encouraging students to 'think like entrepreneurs' about ways to solve complex social and environmental issues to ...