Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

by | Feb 1, 2014

Last year I followed the TFP (Teaching Fellowship Preparation) Programme at the Oxford Learning Institute, which I successfully completed by writing a teaching portfolio entitled ’Reflections of Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate and Continuing Education’. The TFP...

Presenting a poster at ASAB Winter Conference 2013 in London

by | Dec 8, 2013

Thursday the 5th and Friday the 6th of December, I had the great pleasure of attending the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour’s Winter Conference 2013 in London on the Evolution of Behavioural Mechanisms. I went for getting ideas on my own research...

Additional responsibilities at OUDCE

by | Nov 10, 2013

This Michaelmas Term I have been handed a number of additional responsibilities at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE). The main new job is that I have been commissioned to develop and author an online course in Animal Behaviour at a...

Visit to DTU and giving a seminar on numerical biology

by | Aug 31, 2013

During the week Aug 12 – Aug 16, I visited the Technological University of Denmark (DTU) on an invitation from my long term collaborator Dr Torben Lenau from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. We discussed a number of ongoing and potential future...

Collaborative paper on impact behaviour of silk cocoons

by | Jun 29, 2013

I am co-author on a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology on the impact behaviour of moth silk cocoons. The paper is part of then DPhil student Fujia Chen’s comprehensive study on the structure and material properties of a range of silk cocoons of...

Chapter in biomimetic book on self-organisation and self-healing

by | Jun 29, 2013

I have helped my collaborator Torben Lenau from the Technical University of Denmark with biological input to a chapter on the biomimetic potential of self-organisation and self-healing in nature. The chapter forms part of the book ‘Engineered Biomimicry, which...