October 2015

  • Small Molecule NMR – a SMASHing time

    The following blog comes from Andrew Hall, who between the 20th-24th September, attended the Small Molecule NMR Conference within the beautiful setting of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. SMASH NMR is not something you do when your Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer...

  • British weather in Brazil...Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy conference

    This post is contributed by Joe Donnelly. During September a trio of CSCT students (Myself, Jonathan Wagner and David Miles) attended Challenges in Chemical Renewable Energy (ISACS17), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 12 hour flight from Heathrow was a relatively...

  • Video: Plastic from waste sugar and carbon dioxide

    Watch George Gregory's performance at the finals of The Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT). George talks about her research into improving plastic waste, with the help of a spoonful of sugar. George is currently working on her PhD project on Cyclic carbonates from...

  • 17 things I didn’t know about music festivals: Confessions of a first time camper

    This post is contributed by Emma Sackville. Our most recent public engagement experience took us to Green Man music festival to run a stall as part of Einstein’s Garden. Being more of a One Direction fan who loves a cosy...

  • Video: Meet the new students - Cohort 2015

    During the induction week, our new starters ventured over to the nerve-racking TV studio where they shared with us their motivations of joining the CSCT. (Includes bloopers!)  

  • We're 6 years old!

    EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) was first established in 2009. This academic year, we have turned six! We are the only CDT to focus on developing new molecules, materials, processes and systems from the lab right through to industrial application,...

  • Euromembrane 2015, Germany

    Chris Davey went to the Euromembrane conference in Aachen, Germany to give a talk on sustainable separations for Industrial Biotechnology. Here is Chris' account on his trip: At the beginning of September I attended the conference Euromembrane in Aachen, Germany....

  • CO2 Utilisation Faraday Discussion

    George Gregory went to the Faraday Discussion - Carbon Dioxide Utilisation in Sheffield to present a poster and won the poster prize. Here is George's account on her trip: A conference with a difference! Held over three days at the...