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Speaking at RSC's 13th International Conference on Materials Chemistry
From 10 - 13 July, the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) Liverpool hosted the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 13th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC13). This conference happens every two years and always attracts hundreds of delegates from all over...
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Volunteering at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2017
The Royal Society, or rather, the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, to use to the full name, was established in 1660. In the early days of the Royal Society, membership was...
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Home is Where Clean Water Flows
IWA Young Water Professional Benelux Conference, 5-7 July Going back to the source On the 5th of July I returned to the Bioscience Engineering department of the University of Ghent where I gained my Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering nearly...
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European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting - Two years on!
The following blog is written by Suzy Wallace. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting twice now during my PhD. The first time I presented at this meeting was during my first...
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Our 'Island of Sustainability' at Festival of Nature 2017
On 10 and 11 June, our first year students took their ‘Island of Sustainability’ exhibition to the Festival of Nature 2017, where they ran activities to answer questions such as: “Can fruit waste make plastic?” and “How do you clean water?” Watch this...
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Explaining my PhD to a six-year-old
The Festival of Nature will be hosting the Bristol Free Fun Family Weekend at Bristol Harbourside on the 10 and 11 June. A group of 19 PhD students from the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, University of Bath have been...
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Developing the Next Generation of Solar Cells at Oxford PV
Since January I’ve been working with scientists and engineers at Oxford Photovoltaics, a start-up company spun out from Oxford University research that aims to scale up and commercialise perovskite solar cells (so named for the crystal structure of the absorber...
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Our sustainable island at 'Bath Taps Into Science' Festival
'Bath Taps into Science' is a free, educational outreach event, organised by the University of Bath, in attempt to make science accessible to all. This year, the MRes cohort created a series of fun and hands-on activities showcasing the research being...
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Research Rocket sets out healthy futures for early career researcher community
CSCT student Marcus Johns was one of the 12 speakers who delivered a six minute presentation, in which he set out his research and why it matters. He also explained his motivations and progress in his research journeys, including advice...
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7 Reasons to Experiment Abroad
My PhD focusses on improving materials for solar cells. One of the ways we can do this is by understanding more about their fundamental structure. So, in the last days of January I headed out to the Institute Laue-Langevin (or...
