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When biodegradable plastic is not biodegradable
By Isabel Thomlinson, PhD Researcher, Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies The idea of a “biodegradable” plastic suggests a material that would degrade to little or nothing over a period of time, posing less of a hazard to wildlife and the...
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Annual Sustainable Materials Group at the IOM3
Jamie is a first year PhD student working with Professor Matthew Davidson and ARTIS on the application of self-healing for rubber seals in the oil and gas industry. My industrial partner, ARTIS, runs the annual Sustainable Materials Group (SMG) meeting....
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Attending a Colloquium: the Power of Timing, Networking, and Joining a Network.
At the end of January, I headed to Manchester for the Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Network Research Colloquium, ‘Beyond Biogas’. Thanks to some good timing, plenty of opportunities for networking, and being a member of a network I had an amazing...
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The New Future of Food
My name is Jessica Pinheiro de Lucena-Thomas and I am a Marie Curie FIRE PhD Fellow at the University of Bath. I am in my second year at the CSCT working towards my PhD on “Organoid Expansion Bioreactor Development” with...
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Plastics: Problem Polymers or Sustainable Solutions?
The article below was written by Emma Daniels, Jack Payne and Ciarán Callaghan from Cohort '18 about their trip to the Bristol Against Plastics society. The issues surrounding plastic pollution are all too prevalent in the today’s media and most...
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Frontiers in Green Materials Conference
Stefanie is a second year PhD student working with Professor Matthew Davidson and Professor Janet Scott on the synthesis of novel bio-based polymers from terpenes. It’s early Monday morning in London a week before Christmas. I’m fighting my way through...
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Reflections of our MRes year
Cohort 2017 reflect on key moments from their MRes year.
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Out of the Research Lab and into the Fjord - Tackling Palm Oil with Rainforest Foundation Norway.
Rob Hicks is a PhD student working with Dr Daniel Henk and Dr Chris Chuck on using natural variation and adaptive evolution of Metschnikowia pulcherrima for lipid production from low value plant feedstocks. As the detrimental environmental and social impacts of the...
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Cohort 18: Experts In The Field
Cohort '18 spent three days on Magdalen Farm in October 2018; an organic working farm set on the edge of Dorset. The cadre participated in team building activities and a tour of the farm's sustainable practices. The following post was...
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Sustainability in Practice: my two-month internship with Reckitt Benckiser in Hull
Maria is a final year PhD student in Professor Tony James' group working on diagnostic tools for early cancer detection. I worked within the sustainability team of Reckitt Benckiser (RB) from the end of July until the end of September....