As the UK’s only exclusively postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships is creating leaders in technology and management globally.Our specialist areas of focus, or Cranfield themes, are where we bring a range of academic disciplines together in order to tackle the grand challenges facing the world within a range of industrial and commercial sectors. These are Water, Agrifood, Energy and Power, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Transport Systems, Defence and Security and Management. We have two campuses - the Cranfield campus is situated close to Milton Keynes and Bedford, about 10 from the M1 motorway. Based at the UK Defence Academy at Shrivenham in Oxfordshire, Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS), a School of Cranfield University, is the Academic Provider to the UK Ministry of Defence for all postgraduate education at the Defence Academy College of Management and Technology and training in engineering, science, acquisition, management and leadership. Cranfield's activity at Shrivenham, therefore, uniquely combines our academic excellence with the Directing Staff from the armed forces.