July 2015

  • Beer and Batteries in Bremen: 11th ECHEMS Meeting

    Second year student Emma Sackville recently attended the 11th ECHEMS meeting in Bad Zwischenahn, near Bremen. Here's how she got on: What does a statue of a chicken-on-a-cat-on-a-dog-on-a-donkey have in common with electrochemistry? Admittedly not much, but I was able...

  • Could hydrogen be the answer?

    Second year CSCT student, Jemma Rowlandson, writes about her research topic of materials for hydrogen storage. Jemma recently won the regional finals of the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Present Around the World Competition and won a prize of £300 and a place...

  • Sustainable Solutions at the Royal Society

    On 4 and 5 July 2015, five of our students (Helena Quilter, James Coombs OBrien, Matthew Camilleri, Andrew Hall and Marcus Johns) presented an exhibit at the Summer Science Exhibition at the prestigious Royal Society in London. This post was contributed by Andrew...

  • Emma takes on FameLab

    Second-year CSCT student Emma Sackville made it to the UK final of this year's FameLab competition at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London. Emma has written this blog about her Famelab experience, including the FameLab bootcamp she took part in! You can watch...

  • Bath Spa Collaboration 2015

    It's been another successful year for our Bath Spa collaboration! This year the team was led by Tamsin Bell, who contributed this post. For the third year running, the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies at the University of Bath has...

  • "Water, Water, Everywhere" at Cheltenham Science Festival 2015

    On the 6th and the 7th of June, the ’14 cohort took their ‘Water Water… Everywhere?’ exhibition to the Cheltenham Science Festival – one of the foremost science festivals within the UK – where they aimed to inform the public...

  • Video: Cheltenham Science Festival 2015

    Our MRes cohort took part in ‘Water Water… Everywhere?’ exhibition at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Participating student, Dan Davies created this video to compile the highlights of the event.