Short-term research fellow at the University of Gloucestershire

This week, I have taken up a short-term ‘summer job’ as Research Fellow (Biological Data Analyst) in the School of Natural and Social Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire. I am assisting Dr Anne Goodenough and Prof Adam Hart in analysing their...

External Examiner at Moulton College

I have recently been appointed external examiner at Moulton College for their newly developed BSc in Applied Zoology. As external examiner it is my duty to ensure that standards of marking and assessment are fair and transparent. Moulton College is a further education...

OUDCE open day talk on biomimetics

The Oxford University Department for Continuing Education held an open day for all interested members of the public on Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th of September 2015. I was kindly invited to do a talk on biomimetics (as well as plug the department’s...

Part-time lecturer in animal science and management

I have recently been appointed as part-time Lecturer in Animal Science and Management at Wiltshire College, where I will be teaching on the foundation (FdSc) and the BSc top-up degree in Animal Science and Management. I will be tutor and module leader for a number of...

Short communication on bio-inspired design ideas for sanitation

I have been involved in a small project with Torben Lenau from the Technical University of Denmark about using bio-inspired design and exchange of ideas between an engineer and a biologist as a way of developing innovative ideas. In the study we focussed on developing...

Review paper on spider exploration behaviour

The journal Current Zoology (formerly Acta Zoologica Sinica) has just published a special issue on The Evolution of Mechanisms Underlying Behaviour’, partly inspired by the 2013 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour’s Winter Meeting on the same topic. I...