Internships & visits
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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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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....
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The CSCT PhD Himalayman - A Newton-Bhabha Placement (Part 1)
Touchdown at IIT Mandi As part of my PhD at the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies at the University of Bath, I have been fortunate enough to secure three months of research funding through the Newton-Bhabha fund to visit the...
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Research placement at the National Renewable Energy Lab: Solar cells, snow and sunshine in Colorado!
During my PhD I was very fortunate to do a research collaboration placement at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Colorado, USA. My placement took place over the course of autumn and winter so I certainly had some interesting...