Bring your kids to work day
We held the Biology Department’s second “Bring your kids to work day” this week. Thursday 4th May was an inset day so local school children had the day off school. Prof. Will Cresswell provided a fantastic schedule for…
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Teaching Excellence awards
Congratulations to Prof Will Cresswell and Dr Rona Ramsay, who received Teaching Excellence awards at the annual award ceremony this week. Will was recognised with a University Teaching Excellence award for his…
Work-life balance in marine mammal science
A new article on the challenges of work-life balance in marine mammal science titled “Equity and career-life balance in marine mammal science?” has just come out – published (appropriately) in the journal Marine Mammal…
Speaker suggestions for International Day of Women and Girls in Science
In preparation for next year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the School’s Equality and Diversity Committee would like your suggestions for an eminent female scientist to invite to speak about her…
Welcome to Caroline Kosiol
Carolin Kosiol is a new Lecturer in Bioinformatics. She works on problems at the intersection of computer science, maths and evolutionary biology. In particular, she wants to understand how natural selection has shaped…
New Head of School – Dr Clare Peddie
I’d like to extend my warm congratulations to Dr Clare Peddie, who has been confirmed as the next Head of the School of Biology. Clare will take up the post on 1 August 2017 when I step down after 3 years in the role.…
Biology Equality and Diversity Committee careers event
On 17 January 2017 we held a careers session as part of the annual Biology Postgraduate Student Conference. Our intention was to highlight the diversity of careers available after a Biology PhD to the postgraduate and…
Carnegie professorship
Prof Thompson awarded a 2017 Carnegie Centenary Professorship
Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship Award
Dr Stefania Pasare receives Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship Award
The nature of hummingbirds
Dr Sue Healy of the School of Biology, and fellow researcher Andy Hurly from the University of Lethbridge have been filming a documentary about animal cognition in the wild for the prestigious nature series The Nature…
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