Student Impact

Congratulations to Beth Francis who won the “best presentation runner up” at the Marine Biology Association Postgraduate Conference in P…

As a final year PhD student, I started to consider what to do after submitting my thesis. I decided it would be valuable to gain some experi…

In January of this year, I was fortunate enough to gain the RTSG top up funds which enabled me to attend the “Mechanisms and Outcomes of P…

Additional funding from Envision allowed me to undertake training in powerboat handling at Preston Marina. My project looking at the environ…

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 …

In early January I found details of an amazing sounding course, run jointly by the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Zoological Socie…

ALGAR, A. & TARR, S. 2018. Fossils, phylogenies and the evolving climate niche. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 414-415. BLOCKLEY,…

As a third year PhD student I decided to undertake a placement to broaden my career prospects and get some professional experience outside o…

At the end of February 2017 I stopped research for my PhD to go on placement with the Cabinet Office’s new Open Innovation Team. On my fir…

We know that trade and transport of ivory is strictly controlled to safeguard the elephants, and that other animal by-products such as the u…

Savannah Worne The NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee is an excellent opportunity for UK based researchers to apply for f…

Connor McCarron In my PhD project I am investigating the transport of sand and gravel mixtures in shelf seas through bedload transport. When…

Since moving to North Wales to start a forestry degree at Bangor University, I noticed many productive apples trees were not being picked an…

Paul McLachlan I understand the importance and enjoy communicating science through a range of physical and virtual formats. It is important …

The Cabinet Office’s Open Innovation Team generates analysis and ideas for priority projects by collaborating with academics and other…

Figure 1: Common mycorrhizal network in a forest (van der Heijden et al, 2014) T. D. Peters¹, D. L. Jones¹, A. R. Smith¹ ¹Scho…