research
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 ...
Agrifood on tour: bringing science to life!
Throughout the year my Agrifood team and I travel around the world to raise awareness of Cranfield’s research and teaching expertise. Central to this is our participation in outreach activities, and this year has been ...
Introducing… Citation analysis
It's common practice when you're doing research to take a good paper and follow up on its references, looking for anything you haven't yet read, to make your research more comprehensive. This involves working backwards ...
Five reasons to reconsider submitting primary data to your journal publisher
When you submit a paper for publication, you often provide supplementary information including the data used in the research. It's important to make this data available for the paper's readers, to provide the evidence for ...
From Cranfield to Basel – how the Santander Mobility Award helped me disseminate my PhD research
One of the most popular myths surrounding PhD research is that it takes place in what Estelle Phillips, independent educational consultant, and Derek Pugh, Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, describe as ...
Using European Space Agency expertise to grow better crops
When you hear the words European Space Agency (ESA), ambitious missions to mars or spectacular crash-landings on comets may come to mind. What is less likely to occur is agriculture and improving crop yields. But ...