Research projects

Explore examples of a selection of our current research projects and learn more about Cranfield's impact

Peruvian glacier retreat and its impact on water security (Peru GROWS)

Investigating the impacts of climate change on glacier retreat and water resources in the Rio Santa, Peru
Place-based AI-driven clustering and demand flexibility assessment for net zero

This project innovates on the use of machine learning algorithms for evaluating the flexibility of domestic and commercial consumers
Precision surface finishing of nano structured coatings

Development of post-synthesis processing techniques for precision surface finishing of nano-structured hard coatings
Project U-AGREE: U-SPACE Air and Ground Risk Models Enhancement

Developing risk models for unmanned aircraft operations, linking hazards to severity and probability
Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online

Aiming to characterise, manage and mitigate online risks ME communities experience when accessing digital services in housing, health and energy
Protecting the Rivers: promoting resilience-thinking for pollution management in rivers

Establishing a community of practice aiming to promote resilience-thinking for pollution management
Proving the concept of sewage sludge pyrolysis

Delivering the first continuously operating, sludge-fed UK-based pyrolysis demonstration plant
R3M

Reconfigurable robotics for responsive manufacture
Reducing potato losses by creating a predictive model for black dot disease

Creating a predictive model for black dot disease
Remote Assessed Moisture Profiling for Perennial Biomass Crops (RAMP-4-PBC)

This project aims to test the efficacy of a drone-mounted synthetic aperture radar to measure crop biomass
Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial Robotics

Developing a robotic system capable of adaptive responses based on human emotions and gestures
RestREco

Restoring resilient ecosystems
Revealing new insights into MDR evolution, ecology and transmission across human, animal and environmental microbiomes

Investigating how multidrug resistance evolves and spreads across human, animal and environmental microbiomes, integrating omics, modelling and wastewater epidemiology
Riverbed biofilm communities as integrated indicators of ecological health

A new approach to diagnose the reasons for poor ecological health in rivers using cutting-edge genetic sequencing technology applied to riverbed biofilms
Root-soil interactions

Exploring techniques that study the rhizophere at fine spatial and temporal resolutions