Envision infohackit 2018 – Communicating science through infographics

Envision infohackit is a science infographics hack event. It’s a unique opportunity for infographic designers and data developers to work with PhD scientists to produce amazing graphics to communicate research. Read the blog about our infohackit event on the main infohackit website.

Royal Yachting Association Level 2 Powerboat Handling Training

Giles Exley training to use a power boat

Additional funding from Envision allowed me to undertake training in powerboat handling at Preston Marina. My project looking at the environmental impacts of floating solar panels on lakes and reservoirs will have a fieldwork component requiring me to access a water body using a boat. A health and safety requirement of using a boat for […]

Undergraduate research experience placement in Past Climate Change in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham.

Paid summer research placement opportunity A funded opportunity is available for an undergraduate student (subject to eligibility, see below) to be part of University of Nottingham/British Geological Survey research project with Dr Matthew Jones, Dr George Swann and Prof. Melanie Leng during the summer of 2018. The work will start on the 16th July and […]

Undergraduate research experience placement on the impact of ozone pollution on the growth and yield of tropical crops at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Bangor)

Paid summer placement opportunity A funded opportunity is available for an undergraduate student (subject to eligibility, see below) to be part of CEH research during the summer 2018. The opportunity will focus on assessing the threat to the staple African food crops ‘cowpea’ and ‘bean’ from potential uptake of ozone pollution using the ozone exposure […]

Undergraduate research experience placement in environmental geochemistry at the British Geological Survey

Paid summer placement opportunity – Characterising sulphur pools in a river catchment: evidence from hydrochemistry and sulphur isotope measurements A funded opportunity is available for an undergraduate student to be part of a BGS research project with Dr Barbara Palumbo-Roe and Dr Angela Lamb during the summer of 2018. The work will start from the […]

Advanced Spatial Statistics Course for Researchers using ArcGIS

By the end of the two-day course I feel like I’ve learnt a lot. Having had very little experience of using Arc GIS and teaching myself to have a basic understanding of the programme, I found that the course has already been invaluable to me for a range of reasons: It allows you to see […]

“Communicating your science” – My Experiences

In early January I found details of an amazing sounding course, run jointly by the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), entitled “Communicating your science: an introduction to social and traditional media”. This course offered the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in how to communicate science, designed specifically for […]

View publications by our Envision students!

ALGAR, A. & TARR, S. 2018. Fossils, phylogenies and the evolving climate niche. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 414-415. BLOCKLEY, S., CANDY, I., MATTHEWS, I., LANGDON, P., LANGDON, C., PALMER, A., LINCOLN, P., ABROOK, A., TAYLOR, B., CONNELLER, C., BAYLISS, A., MACLEOD, A., DEEPROSE, L., DARVILL, C., KEARNEY, R., BEAVAN, N., STAFF, R., BAMFORTH, M., TAYLOR, M. & […]

From the Laboratory to Westminster…my placement in the Open Innovation Team

As a third year PhD student I decided to undertake a placement to broaden my career prospects and get some professional experience outside of the university environment. An opportunity came up within the Open Innovation Team in the Cabinet Office and I took a break from the lab and started a three-month placement in Westminster. […]

Envision Internships

Envision students have been undertaking 3 month policy placements with the Open Innovation Team at the Cabinet Office in London. So far Nick Girkin, Laura Deeprose and Rachel Efrat have taken up this opportunity. You can read about Nick and Laura’s experiences here. David Foster has organised his own placement at CEH and we are currently […]

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