On Monday 2 April, Long Road Sixth Form College students from Cambridge, UK visited CARES as part of a Turing Scheme-funded overseas trip to improve carbon literacy. The trip to Singapore would help students understand the green jobs sector, international trade, and post-schooling advancement opportunities.
Students would have to complete a carbon literacy qualification for the trip. The visit to CARES to learn about the Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technologies (C4T) programme served as an ideal platform to fulfil this educational requirement.
Three early-career CARES researchers presented work from their field and shared personal insight into their career choices at the end of secondary school (16 years old in Singapore and Malaysia).
Research Fellow Dr Li Chin Law presented her research and spin-off, EMICAST to identify holistic solutions for low-carbon ships of the future through ship optimisation and emissions forecasting.
PhD student Adarsh Arun and Software Developer Shin Zert Phua both presented their work on knowledge graph technology; Adarsh maps the process of converting biowaste to value-added chemicals and Shin Zert is part of the team building a connected network beyond digital twins (called “The World Avatar“) to answer cross-domain questions, with his focus on city resilience.
Pictured are Prof Markus Kraft and Elizabeth MacRae (top left), Dr Li Chin Law (top right), Adarsh Arun (bottom left), and Shin Zert Phua (bottom right).
The visit ended with an open discussion and a guided lab tour. Students were allowed to engage directly with researchers, seek advice, and get personal insight into their own study choices.
Pictured are the students on the guided lab tour.
While CARES functions first as a research centre, we believe that impact can be created on a technical level and by building relations and positive engagements.
