

CRITICAT PIs Receive RSC Awards
Congratulations to Guy Lloyd-Jones, Polly Arnold and Andrew Smith who recently received awards from the RSC for their contributions to...


Science in the Local Community
Last month Samantha Russell organised an outreach event at a local nursery called Westfield Family Nature Centre. The event allowed...


Process Chemistry Workshop at AstraZeneca
At the end of September, Cohorts 1 and 2 were invited to visit AstraZeneca at their site in Macclesfield. Whilst there, our time was...


National RSC/SCI Retrosynthesis Competition
Over the last five months, five members from the Smith group took part in the 4th National RSC/SCI Retrosynthesis Competition: Elizabeth...


Annual CRITICAT Conference
As part of being a CDT student, we get to take on variety of experiences whilst doing our PhD's. One such experience for me was the...


CRITICAT Mini-Project
One of the biggest challenges in the CDT so far has been the mini-project. Chiara and I worked on the catalytic conversion of biomass...