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Helping to revive wargaming in the Royal Navy – an update: Games in a COVID world
Lieutenant Commander Ed Oates, recent PhD graduate at Cranfield Defence and Security and helicopter simulator instructor at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall, previously shared his experiences in using knowledge learnt at Cranfield to drive a wargaming ...
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 ...
A sit down with Dr Natalia Falagán Sama
Can you tell us a bit about your background? I studied Agricultural Engineering at Universidad Politécnica of Valencia (Spain) followed by an MSc and PhD in Food Engineering in Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain). Here ...
A sit down with Dr Nathaniel Erb-Satullo
Last year Dr Nathaniel Erb-Satullo joined Cranfield as lecturer in Archaeological Science at the Cranfield Forensic Institute, find out more about his Cranfield journey so far..
CFI group at the German electron synchrotron (DESY)
A group of three PhD students from Cranfield Forensic Institute finished a four day visit to DESY, the German electron synchrotron in Hamburg. The group was led by Marleen Vetter, whose PhD project explores novel aspects of polymers under stress. This was this first time the scientists at DESY had used their state of the art X-ray Raman system to look at this sort of material, and they were very interested to see how it would perform.
Every drop counts: Water conservation at Cranfield University using smart technology
About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered (that’s two thirds). 3% of this is freshwater and less than 1% of the Earth’s freshwater is accessible for humans. This leaves only 0.007% of the planet’s ...