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Charles Sutherland Scholarship Fund - YoMos Workshop

In May 2025, I was fortunate to receive funding from the Charles Sutherland Scholarship Fund, which enabled me to co-organise and participate in this year’s Young Modellers in Ecology (YoMos) workshop in Germany.

My involvement with YoMos began at the 2024 workshop, where I experienced firsthand the value of creating…

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Rachael's internship with Grevy's Zebra Trust & Marwell Wildlife

For my internship, I have been working with Grevy’s Zebra Trust and Marwell Wildlife on their collaring project. They deployed 20 collars on Grevy’s Zebra in September 2023 in two different areas of northern Kenya to understand their movements. This project was initiated in response to the proposed LAPSSET corridor that will involve…

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Emma's experience at Posters in Parliament

Posters in Parliament is an annual event under the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, held at the UK Houses of Parliament in London. I was incredibly grateful to be asked to attend this year’s event, presenting my honours thesis: “The Short-Term Impact of River Restoration on Birds” which I completed…

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Exploring high mountain ecosystems in Sestola, Italy: A week of soil science and climate insights

This past September I attended a week-long international summer school in Sestola, Italy. The programme: ‘Assessment of high mountain ecosystems by soil survey, remote sensing and GIS-based maps’ focussed on key skills, including soil profile description, sampling techniques, pedodiversity and biodiversity assessment, soil ecosystem functions, and the construction of GIS-based…

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Representing the University of Aberdeen at the Technician Commitment Signatory Event

Martin Cowie is the Technical Resources Manager in the School of Biological Sciences.

On the 18th of November, I was delighted to be able to represent the University of Aberdeen at the 2024 Technician Commitment Signatory Event held at the Royal College of Pathologists in Whitechapel, London. The event brought…

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A PhD in sustainable arsenic mitigation for wheat

Muhammad is currently a PhD candidate having been selected for the Commonwealth Split-Site PhD Scholarship 2023-2024. His passion, sparked as the child of a farmer, has taken him across the globe and landed him an academic career researching the climate impact on crops.

I, Muhammad Saeed, am currently pursuing a…

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Scholarship fund supports Denmark butterfly field study

In April of 2024, I was fortunate to receive support from the Charles Sutherland Scholarship fund, which significantly contributed to my research. This funding allowed me to partially cover the expenses associated with a field work trip to Denmark.

The primary purpose of this trip was to collect DNA samples…

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Attending Courmayeur, Italy with QUADRAT DTP

At the beginning of June, QUADRAT DTP second year students from University of Aberdeen and Queens University Belfast reunited in Courmayeur, Italy to spend the week together to learn more about glaciology. QUADRAT DTP is a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast that offers studentships that…

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Posters in Parliament with Marianne Richards

After finishing my Honour’s project dissertation, I was incredibly lucky to receive an opportunity to present my undergraduate research, a project titled “Niche Partitioning of Native British Bumblebees on a Temporal and Floral Resource Scale in Machair Habitat on Orkney, Scotland” at the Posters in Parliament session in the Houses…

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Charles Sutherland Scholarship fund: Willow as a bioenergy crop for net zero

In the first week of August 2023, I was able to travel to UKCEH in Lancaster thanks to the funding provided by the Charles Sutherland Scholarship. My research project lies under the interdisciplinarity Demonstrator ‘Perennial Bioenergy Crops for Greenhouse Gas Removal’ (PBC4GGR) and aims to bring scientific support and best…

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