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Science and engineering provide a platform for logical deduction and  in some circumstances can help the understanding of the very complex world that we now live in. This section of the web site contains a mixture of themes that have at various stages in my academic life and retirement exercised my mind sufficiently to put “pen to paper”. The section starts with a short pdf on the scientific and creative mind.

An introduction to the scientific creative mind

The following parts of this  web site section includes a route to being a successful academic, photographs which deserve to be thought of as artistic, movies clips that also have an artistic twist and  a  fiction “High Tension”, adventure novel within the university world of  scientific discovery and big business.

• Academic success-2013 A short article on how to succeed as a young academic.
• Photographs.  Most of the photographs involve fluid flow although there are also some on polymer crystallisation.
• Movie clips Again most of the selected movies involve flow. 
• European Union 2016 A short article on the 2016 UK EU Referendum vote
• Plastic sustainability,   This includes a 2016 presentation Plastic is fantastic.  on some of the  Good, Bad and Ugly aspects of plastics, followed by a recent presentation on The Beauty and Nightmare of Plastics.
•  Engineering a Sustainable Framework. A short article written in 2018 on formulating a strategy for establishing a contemporary code of practice for engineers scientists and others.
• A fiction novel written in the 1990s about scientific discovery and big business.  High Tension-pdf