{"id":715,"date":"2018-12-19T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/bio-equalityanddiversity\/?p=715"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:53:37","slug":"marine-mammal-science-msc-students-meet-dr-asha-de-vos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/2018\/12\/19\/marine-mammal-science-msc-students-meet-dr-asha-de-vos\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Mammal Science MSc students meet Dr Asha de Vos"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">One woman whale show!<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Marine Mammal Science MSc students met with the inspirational and charismatic cetacean scientist, Dr Asha de Vos. As a St Andrew\u2019s alumni herself, Asha proved to the excited and awe-stricken students that the sky is no longer the limit!<\/p>\n<p>She spoke animatedly to a captive audience about the struggles that she overcame in reaching her goal of becoming a marine biologist. Asha founded and directs the NGO Oceanswell which aims to educate the next generation of students from under-represented nations in marine conservation research.<\/p>\n<p>The full blog post can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biopostgraduate\/2018\/12\/07\/one-woman-whale-show\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Original blog written by Jenny Hampson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One woman whale show! The Marine Mammal Science MSc students met with the inspirational and charismatic cetacean scientist, Dr Asha de Vos. As a St Andrew\u2019s alumni herself, Asha proved to the excited and awe-stricken students that the sky is no longer the limit! She spoke animatedly to a captive audience about the struggles that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equality-diversity-and-inclusion","category-student-ecr-activities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/asha-de-vos-meeting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}