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. […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 9 – Dr Joao Quinta da Fonseca
Meet the Department 28th September 2015
Dr Joao Quinta da Fonseca first came to my attention when I edited an article about his research for the School of Materials website. While I had to Google terms like ‘deformation at the nanoscale’ and ‘polycrystalline plasticity of austenitic stainless steel’, I found the basic ideas of his work to be both intriguing and […]
Welcome to Welcome Week (Guest post)
Student experience 22nd September 2015
Hello everyone, and welcome to Welcome Week. I was going to write this post myself, but it’s nearly a decade since I went through the joys of my first week in uni. So I thought I’d pass the responsibility on. Who better than Kate Taracinska, a Fashion and Textile Retailing student and the current Welcome Week Intern […]
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 […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 8 – Dr Delia Vazquez
Meet the Department 14th September 2015
It’s #MondayMaterials time again, and today we’re chatting with Dr Delia Vazquez. If you’re particularly eagle-eyed and have the memory of an elephant, you might remember Delia’s name from one of our very earliest episodes. She is the PhD supervisor of Sophie Miell, our second interviewee. What made Delia’s interview all the more exciting for […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 7 – Professor Sarah Cartmell
Meet the Department 31st August 2015
#MondayMaterials has been going fantastically so far, with a range of fascinating interviewees discussing subjects which have shown just how broad and exciting the work happening in the School of Materials can be. And there’s no change this week, in that respect. Episode 7 has been particularly interesting for me, though, because it’s the first […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 6 – Dr Gianpaolo Vignali
Meet the Department 17th August 2015
Gianpaolo Vignali was one of the first academics I met when I started working for the School of Materials. Just a few days into my job I was sitting in his office and discussing the intricacies of the Fashion SOC, a web app he is creating with his colleagues. So early in my time here, I didn’t […]
DFB Degree Show – student interviews
Welcome to Materials 6th August 2015
So, who remembers one of my earliest posts on the blog? The one where I went along to the Design, Fashion, and Business degree show and talked to a few of the students about their final year projects? Well we had a fair few questions for them on the day, and over the last week […]