Turning a passion into a business: Bike Bros The life of a PhD student is not all work, work, work. A lot of people join student societies and sports clubs. In […]
May 18, 2015
SATRO Summer Research Placement Awards 2014 Each year, SATRO sponsors a select group of sixth form students, pairing them with scientists and engineers for four to six weeks. The students […]
Nov 24, 2014
IMPACT ACCELERATION ACCOUNT The EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) follows on from the University of Surrey’s successful Knowledge Transfer Account (KTA) and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences […]
Sep 25, 2014
The fourth postgraduate research conference at the University of Surrey was held at the beginning of February. I spoke to some of the young researchers, the organisers and members of […]
Feb 10, 2014
Today’s guest uses this machine for aligning carbon nanotubes by electrospinning. Simon King is an engineering doctoral student at Surrey’s MinMat Industrial Doctoral Centre supported by the EPSRC and industrial […]
Dec 17, 2013
Despite its astounding mechanical properties, carbon fibre has poor electrical characteristics. My guest today seeks to enhance them and by so doing, make the material safer to use in aircraft. […]
Dec 10, 2013
In this podcast, we visit the Theory and Computation group at the ATI. I’m speaking to Ross Maspero, a PhD researchers who studies lasers and ways of making them more […]
Dec 3, 2013
So far, series has been featuring PhD students. Today I’m speaking to a postdoctoral researcher who changed her field after she became a Doctor. Her passion for the subject, she […]
Nov 26, 2013
Today’s guest showed up in a T-shirt reading “This is what a feminist looks like” and has given up jiu-jitsu for roller derby, only to find this sport equally intense. […]
Nov 19, 2013
Today I’m talking to another of our chemists. He reveals some less well known properties of nanostructured materials based on carbon and argues that you don’t have to work around […]
Nov 12, 2013