Welcome to Welcome Week (Guest post)
Student experience 22 September 2015
Hello everyone, and welcome to Welcome Week. I was going to write this post myself, but it’s nearly a decade since I went through the joys of my first week in uni. So I thought I’d pass the responsibility on. Who better than Kate Taracinska, a Fashion and Textile Retailing student and the current Welcome Week Intern […]
Our alumni in Amsterdam (Part 1)
Materials World 16 September 2015
If you can cast your mind back a couple of months, you might remember me taking a little trip to the Design, Fashion, and Business Degree Show. I met a lot of interesting people that day. One of them, and perhaps the one I’m most jealous of, was Charlotte Lowther. She had just landed herself a graduate […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 8 – Dr Delia Vazquez
Meet the Department 14 September 2015
It’s #MondayMaterials time again, and today we’re chatting with Dr Delia Vazquez. If you’re particularly eagle-eyed and have the memory of an elephant, you might remember Delia’s name from one of our very earliest episodes. She is the PhD supervisor of Sophie Miell, our second interviewee. What made Delia’s interview all the more exciting for […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 7 – Professor Sarah Cartmell
Meet the Department 31 August 2015
#MondayMaterials has been going fantastically so far, with a range of fascinating interviewees discussing subjects which have shown just how broad and exciting the work happening in the School of Materials can be. And there’s no change this week, in that respect. Episode 7 has been particularly interesting for me, though, because it’s the first […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 6 – Dr Gianpaolo Vignali
Meet the Department 17 August 2015
Gianpaolo Vignali was one of the first academics I met when I started working for the School of Materials. Just a few days into my job I was sitting in his office and discussing the intricacies of the Fashion SOC, a web app he is creating with his colleagues. So early in my time here, I didn’t […]
DFB Degree Show – student interviews
Welcome to Materials 6 August 2015
So, who remembers one of my earliest posts on the blog? The one where I went along to the Design, Fashion, and Business degree show and talked to a few of the students about their final year projects? Well we had a fair few questions for them on the day, and over the last week […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 5 – Rhys Archer
Meet the Department 3 August 2015
It’s that time again! We’re already on Episode 5 of #MondayMaterials! This week we chat to Rhys Archer, a PhD student who has been here with the School of Materials ever since the day she started her undergrad! Rhys first came to my attention on Twitter (@PhDArcher) where I saw her talking about the outreach work […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 4 – Amy Nicholson
Meet the Department 20 July 2015
This week the #MondayMaterials series takes a bit of a departure. So far, we’ve been meeting with the School’s researchers, learning about their current projects and how they got to where they are today. This week, and just a few days after the School of Materials graduation ceremony, we meet up with Amy Nicholson – someone […]
National Women in Engineering Day
Welcome to Materials 9 July 2015
On June 23rd, or National Women in Engineering Day to those in the know, I attended a Women in Materials event, co-hosted by the School of Materials and The Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3). Grace Burke opened proceedings, discussing her career so far and the decisions that have led to her role as Director […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 3 Professor Paul O’Brien
Meet the Department 6 July 2015
Hi everyone! Welcome back to #MondayMaterials! Not sure about you, but to me it feels like a long time since the last instalment. Luckily, we have an exciting interviewee for you all today. Professor Paul O’Brien, or POB as he is affectionately known to some, is a person that everyone in the School of Materials should be […]