… brought to you by Earth System Science (ESS) and Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) DTP students. This is a series of blogs written by PhD students involved in the NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships at Cambridge. They have a diverse range of expertise and research areas, with students from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge in the following departments: Archaeology, Chemistry, DAMTP, Earth Sciences, Genetics, Geography, Plant Sciences and Zoology.
By Helen Brooks, Second Year PhD in Geography
What are the real world applications of your research? Just one of those questions that, as researchers, many of us get asked only too often. For some, the immediate relevance is obvious, but for others, less so.
In recent years, there has been a real drive to show “Impact” of scientific research, i.e. to show that … Continue reading