I remember that ever since my first year at Bangor, I have been receiving weekly emails about the “Bioscience seminars”. Therefore, I am glad that with this module, I finally managed to attend them. It was quite fascinating to be able to see how real scientific projects look like. And even though I had already […]
First comment: Seminar: What does India think of snakes? Although I did not attend this seminar, I really enjoyed reading your post. You made a great use of this layout, and I really liked the fact the you also included videos (very helpful). Now back to the matter at hand, I think that the Indian government […]
When I first heard about this assignment, I wasn’t sure of what to expect. I have never seen a business plan before, so everything was quite new to me. Our task was, firstly, to understand what a business plan is and how to design one. After this, we had to describe how this newly-acquired knowledge […]
This Friday we received an interesting talk from Elspeth Ingleby, a Chat Moss Project office for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Her talk referred to the conservation and restoration of mosslands within the Greater Manchester area, with a focus on lowland raised bogs. Bogs are a type of peatland, an environment with very specific conditions, which is […]
First comment: http://jameshaden.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/seminar-lets-all-save-the-lesser-of-two-evils/comment-page-1/#comment-20 I really enjoyed reading such an opinionated post. I do agree with you, the seminar seemed tilted towards proving that the red squirrels must be saved from the grey squirrels who are, literally, home-wreckers (chewing through lofts, beams, wires, you name it). I wonder if rats receive the same treatment (and these […]
This Friday we had a rather controversial talk given to us by Dr Craig Shuttleworth, from the Red Squirrel Survival Trust. It was about a very “hot” topic in UK conservation circles nowadays: the endangered Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and the effect that the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) has on the red’s survival. The […]
This activity was set out to try and teach us the steps which are involved in creating a business and it had a similar layout as the notorious “Dragons’ Den”. We were assigned to groups and given the task of either choosing a business idea or developing an idea of our own. Each group had to expand […]
First comment: http://hannah2708.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/aspects-of-the-bio-enterprise-and-employability-module-writing-a-cv/comment-page-1/#comment-27 A well written article. I agree with you, and I think that this knowledge should be taught to all students. In these days, it is essential to know how to write your CV, how to tweak it and improve it so that it fits properly with the job that you apply for. […]
Last week I attended a very interesting and eye-opening talk given to us by Professor John Colbourne, the current Chair of Environmental Genomics from the University of Birmingham. He talked about a potential new model organism which could be used in studying environmental genomics – Daphnia pulex. Daphnia (water flea) is a keystone species of […]
Nowadays it’s all about presentation. How do you present yourself in a way that would be impossible to ignore by your potential employers? How do you differentiate yourself from other people with exactly the same qualifications? How would you advertise yourself, as a “product” (I know it sounds strange, but if you think about it, […]
Why Do We Love Science 