Students
Meet Zainab: a first year Fashion Buying and Merchandising student
Fashion 20th July 2022
We sat down to chat with Zainab, a first year student on the BSc Fashion Buying and Merchandising course at Manchester.
From sewing scrubs to Royal Charter Prize nominee: our alumni Olivia-Faye Dickinson
Alumni 29th March 2022
We caught up with Olivia, our MEng Materials Science and Engineering alumni. Back in 2020 and while still studying, Olivia has taken on sewing scrubs for NHS staff during the COVID-19 crisis. Since then, Olivia has graduated and was nominated for the Royal Charter Prize. Hi Olivia, it’s lovely to catch up with you […]
My Industrial Placement experience: Amy Hardy at Boohoo.com
Fashion 3rd March 2021
Amy Hardy, final year Fashion Marketing student tells us all about her experience working at Boohoo during her placement. From landing the internship, to working with different departments and her experience working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before I got my internship I became aware of internships in my first year of university and knew it […]
My blended learning experience: Libby Thorne
Student experience 24th November 2020
Second-year Fashion Business and Technology student Libby Thorne tells us about her experience of switching to a blended learning approach.
COVID-19 testing volunteer: Fashion Buying student Imogen Rowley
Student experience 26th May 2020
We talk to third-year BSc Fashion Buying and Merchandising student Imogen Rowley, who is volunteering to test people for COVID-19.
Fourth Composites@Manchester Research Workshop
Welcome to Materials 11th July 2019
Find out what happened when early career researchers shared their work in composite materials as part of the fourth Composites@Manchester Research Workshop.
From Sydney to Manchester: PhD student Mia Maric
Student experience 8th April 2019
Hear Mia Maric’s story – a Materials Science PhD student who has arrived from Sydney, Australia and is enjoying her time at The University of Manchester.
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 […]
#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 […]