Materials World
Read all about the impact of materials research in the real world, and find out what our alumni have been up to since graduating.

After Uni with Patrick Coburn
Materials World 4th November 2016
Since graduating in July 2015, I have worked and travelled in Australia for eight months, travelled in Ireland and Indonesia, and have finally ended up in Canada doing a PhD in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. It’s fair to say that my journey since graduation has been a rollercoaster. The material that I […]

After Uni with InTheFrow’s Victoria Magrath
Materials World 18th November 2015
Hello everyone. We have a pretty exciting treat for you all today! It’s an ‘After Uni’ post with none other than Victoria Magrath, the creator of InTheFrow. InTheFrow began as a blog and, in Victoria’s own words, ‘a hobby’. These days, with nearly 80,000 Twitter followers, 390,000 subscribers on YouTube, and 571,000 followers on Instagram, it […]

After uni with Amy Nicholson (Part 1)
Materials World 28th October 2015
If you can cast your mind back as far as July, you might remember that I interviewed recent graduate Amy Nicholson for part 4 of the #MondayMaterials series. Well she recently got in touch to let me know that she’d had some exciting news. I thought you might like to hear about it too, so here she is: “The […]

Our alumni in Amsterdam (Part 2)
Materials World 5th October 2015
My first month in Amsterdam is coming to an end and it’s been quite an adventure already. Arriving at the PVH offices at the beginning of September I was given a tour of the company’s collection of buildings located on the Stadhouderskade canal, right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of central Amsterdam. […]

Our alumni in Amsterdam (Part 1)
Materials World 16th September 2015
If you can cast your mind back a couple of months, you might remember me taking a little trip to the Design, Fashion, and Business Degree Show. I met a lot of interesting people that day. One of them, and perhaps the one I’m most jealous of, was Charlotte Lowther. She had just landed herself a graduate […]