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In the week of 7th-11th of June 2021 Aberdeen partners delivered a planned training event called SANH BAAP GWAS Training Workshop. It ran for four hours every day for a week and was attended by 25 trainees and three trainers.

SANH is a £17M GCRF project funded by UKRI with…

The title of our project was “Patterns and drivers of change in the alpine plant communities of Creag Meagaidh NNR”. This meant we were looking at how the plant communities of this mountain range have changed in relation to climate change, deer grazing, and nitrogen deposition. We used information from…

For the last three months, as part of my EASTBIO PhD experience, I got to undertake a UKRI policy internship at the Department for Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), where I had the opportunity to lead on the G7 Chief Veterinary Officer meeting as part of the UKs G7…

During my time as an undergraduate conservation biologist, I concluded that we all have a conservation niche. Some are mad about mammals. Others can spot and identify birds from a mile off. My niche is insects. From watching the humble bees of my back garden to enjoying the flashy, jewel…

“What are you going to do after your PhD?”

We face difficult questions in our research. There’s another difficult question—well for me anyway—was “what are you going to do afterwards?”. Maybe I found it hard because I’d given up a job for my PhD. And of course, Covid-19 certainly didn’t…