Part-time fellowship advisor

This year I have started a part-time position as fellowship advisor for the Daphne Jackson Trust based at the University of Surrey in Guildford. The Daphne Jackson Trust offers fellowship to people with a background in a STEM field, who wishes to return to active...

Part-time Director of Studies position

I have been offered and accepted a part-time position (0.2 FTE) as Director of Studies for Biological Sciences at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. The main responsibilities include to organise and oversee the teaching of biological courses in...

Popular science article in Danish engineering weekly

This Friday the 2nd of December, the Danish weekly engineering magazine ‘Ingeniøren’ published an article written by me about the use of advanced engineering technology (i.e. uni-axial tensile tests and finite element methods) in the study of orb webs and...

Student paper out in Naturwissenschaften

An undergraduate student that I supervised for his Final Honours School Research project managed to get his project on the effects of wind on predatory behaviour in orb web spiders published as a short article in Naturwissenschaften. Abstract: Wind has previously been...

Research associate status at Oxford

I have been granted research associate status at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford for two years commencing on the 1st of October 2011. This status allows me continued access to the University’s email and online resources as well as access to...

Evening class in animal behaviour for interested adults in Oxford

Through the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, I am offering a 10 week course on animal behaviour in Oxford running from January to March 2012. The course is meant as an introduction to animal behaviour for all interested members of the...