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#MondayMaterials Episode 15 – Sobia Khan
Meet the Department 18th January 2016
So I’m looking at all these different types of strategies that retailers are using for product presentation, but I’m looking at it more specifically within a mobile context. More consumers are going shopping using their mobile phones, so we think that, you know, technology needs to improve on that front.
#MondayMaterials Episode 14 – Professor Constantinos Soutis
Meet the Department 7th December 2015
Hello all – and welcome to the final #MondayMaterials of 2015! Yes, I know there’s a few Mondays left in the year yet, but after 14 excellent episodes I figured the series deserves a Christmas break. Don’t worry, though, we’re ending on a high point. Professor Constantinos Soutis (Costas) is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering, […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 13 – Dr Patsy Perry
Meet the Department 23rd November 2015
I was only about a month into my role here when I first met Dr Patsy Perry at the Design, Fashion, and Business Degree show. She was introduced to me as someone I should definitely talk to about my plan’s for the School’s digital media, someone who would have a very useful insight, and someone who, on […]
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 […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 12 – Dr Christopher Blanford
Meet the Department 9th November 2015
I first came across Dr Christopher Blanford’s name a few years ago. I worked for the Faculty of Life Sciences in my previous role at the University, and in that role I used to help look after the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology’s website. Christopher is a research group leader within that institute, and I clearly remember […]
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 […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 11 – Professor Stuart Lyon
Meet the Department 26th October 2015
Welcome back, everyone – and thanks for continuing to follow the series. I was introduced to this week’s interviewee by Delia Vazquez, a previous #MondayMaterials star. In fact, she introduced me to a whole host of people during a recent School of Materials coffee morning, so you can expect to hear this story again and […]
#MondayMaterials Episode 10 – Rachel Parker-Strak
Meet the Department 12th October 2015
So today the #MondayMaterials series hits double figures. What better place to do that than with Rachel Parker-Strak, a lecturer and part time PhD student in the Design, Fashion, and Business area of the School. I first met Rachel while attending one of the School’s Discover Days. These sessions offer A-level students the opportunity to […]
I’m an Engineer, Get Me Out of Here (Guest blog)
Welcome to Materials 7th October 2015
Hello all – and thanks for coming back to the blog (or for coming for the first time, if that’s the case!). The audience has been growing recently, and I’m really grateful to everyone who has taken the time to read the blog posts. Those of you who have been coming back for a while might remember […]
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. […]