cranfield defence and security
My Apprenticeship Journey – Broadening Horizons
Laura, Senior Systems Engineer at a leading aircraft manufacturing company, joined Cranfield on the Systems Engineering Master’s Apprenticeship after initially considering taking a year off from her role to complete an MSc. Apprenticeship over MSc? ...
My Apprenticeship Journey – Taking on a New Challenge
Philip Carey, Senior Environmental Test Engineer at defence company Martin Baker is currently undertaking the Explosives Ordnance MSc Apprenticeship, with the three-year course being partly funded through his employer’s apprenticeship levy payments. ...
My journey since completing my Counterterrorism MSc
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 ...
Submarine hunter by day, PhD student by night – an update: What I wish I’d known at the start…
Lieutenant Commander Ed Oates wrote about his experiences while completing a PhD part-time at Cranfield Defence and Security in 2017. After recently successfully defending his thesis, Crowdsourcing with serious games for defence procurement, Dr Oates ...
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 ...
Design and defence acquisition – the missing piece of the jigsaw
Reports in the Sunday Times and other newspapers this weekend have highlighted a number of familiar issues in defence acquisition. Tales of gold plated requirements, service chiefs ‘gaming’ the system to get preferred projects funded, ...