I am a PhD student in the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research within the Department of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading, with external supervision from the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London, and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, who have provided the long-term Fody monitoring dataset.
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British Science Week
This week is British Science Week, and one of the things that ZSL do to get their message out is organise Skype sessions with schools from across the country, for kids who might not get to talk to scientists otherwise. I did some of these for Biology Week last Autumn and really enjoyed myself, so …
Earley Environmental Group
A couple of weeks ago I did a talk, sort of a short lecture, to this local conservation group about my research, and my trip to Mauritius. It was the first time I’d presented my work in this way and I really enjoyed filling in a bit of the background to the project. The audience …
Talking science
I’m doing some more science outreach tomorrow, at the Earley Environmental Group, which is partly run by a friend of mine. Pitching the talk has been interesting, as they have a wide range of scientific literacy in the members, but I’ve ended up with a ramble through Mauritius and it’s wildlife, and more detail about …
