An important part of being Director of nanofolio was student recruitment. Sheffield has a large number of very good Iranian students, so it was worth going there. I also had the opportunity to visit three Universities to present some of the research that we are doing in Sheffield: Iran University of Science and Technology, Sharif University, and AmirKabir University. An Iranian colleague (whom I shall call P), then a Ph.D. student in the Polymer Physics group at the University of Sheffield, came with me to provide an Iranian perspective on life in Sheffield (and Leeds) to prospective students.