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Whilst nearing the end of my final year of my BSc Marine Biology at the University of Aberdeen, I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to present my Honours Thesis: “Assessing predator-prey interactions within an operational wind farm” at the Houses of Parliament in London.

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QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) is a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast. The doctoral training partnership offers studentships covering three themes: Biodiversity, Earth Systems and Environmental Management. In 2023, we are going to welcome our fifth group of students.

Ivana Drdakova (she/her) has been working…

The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) is the main organisation promoting the study of animal behaviour and the ethical treatment and conservation of animals in the UK. Each year, ASAB awards one early career researcher with the Christopher Barnard Award, recognising outstanding contributions by a new investigator…

The last couple of years have seen some big changes in the ways that teaching has had to be achieved at SBS. From the turmoil of Covid and taking everything online, to the recent move to the all-new Science Teaching Hub (STH). But one thing has remained the same, the…

While we, Fenella and Tanja, are spending most of our time obtaining and analysing genetic data from our elasmobranch species, there comes a time when we get to share our work with others. Especially inspiring for us as PhD students are scientific conferences, where experts from our field present their…