research
A horticultural message from Madagascar
Siobhan Gardiner, a PhD student at Cranfield University, is a 2017 recipient of the SCI's David Miller Travel Bursary Award. The award aims to give early career plant scientists or horticulturists the opportunity of overseas travel in ...
Outsourcing safety – what’s in a model?
This is the third blog of my series sharing my work on a IOSH funded research project investigating the safety management of contractors. Over the last few months we have been wrestling with the questions, “Who is ...
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 ...
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 ...