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017 PD Podcast – Turning a passion into a business: Bike Bros

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2015


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 […]

016 PD Special – SATRO Summer Research Placements 2014

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2014


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 […]

015 PD Special – Surrey Impact Acceleration Account Showcase 2014

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 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 […]

014 PD Special – Postgraduate Research Conference 2014

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 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 […]

013 PD S02E08 – Simon King – Electrospinning – Engineering Doctorate

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2013


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 […]

012 PD S02E07 – Thomas Pozegic – Carbon nanocomposites

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 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. […]

011 PD S02E06 – Ross Maspero – Lasers – Material Modelling – Work Placement

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 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 […]

010 PD S02E05 – Nicola Rolfe – Silicon photonics – Public engagement

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 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 […]

009 PD S02E04 – Nathanael Roome – Molecular interactions

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 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. […]

008 PD S02E03 – Liam McCafferty – Magnetic carbon composites, industrial R&D

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 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 […]

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