science
My journey to COP26 in Glasgow
I was lucky enough to spend 3 days at COP26 hosted in the Glasgow Science Centre. Climate change is now a serious issue impacting the environment, humans and all species. I was involved in ...
Magnets in the sand castle
If you spent your childhood close to the beach, you would probably share the hobby of building sandcastles. With plastic pails, shovels, and water cans, you would spend hours playing with sand. When the night ...
What is it like to be a female engineer? International Women in Engineering Day 2018
STEM is literally a field where 'things happen'. It is constantly changing and evolving, whether it is discovering a new chemical compound, working on artificial intelligence, developing a novel technology or finding the best route ...
Wonderplants: natural superheroes that turn poison into profit
I first became interested in using plants to clean contaminated land – phytoremediation - during a research council ‘sandpit’, an event where I met other researchers interested dealing with the massive legacy of resource loss ...
Injuries, insects and inspiration…
There was one thing I loved when I was at high school – and it wasn’t studying for my GCSEs! It was horses. I was sure that my future was in professional horse-riding and as ...
National Women in Engineering Day – we ask the experts…
On National Women in Engineering Day 2016 we ask Professor Jane Rickson, Chair of Soil Erosion and Conservation and President Elect for the Institution of Agricultural Engineering, and Dr Helen Lockett, Senior Lecturer in Computer Integrated Design, ...