Behavioural ecology field trip – Devon
Last week I was on my final field trip of my degree for the third year behavioural ecology module!! We went to Slapton in Devon for a week and stayed a field work centre there. We arrived on the friday and had a short introduction talk about what the trip would entail, before having […]
Conservation Biology Field Trip – Part 1
By now most students have left Leicester for the summer and are at home enjoying the freedom that comes with the end of another academic year. But for those of us studying the third year module ‘Conservation Biology’ we had a five days of field based teaching. This took place in locations around Leicestershire […]
Mallorca – Part 2
During our field trip we had to complete a group research project. We worked in groups of three and our group was assigned the topic of cyanogenesis in legumes and mollusc herbivory. Basically some plants produce two compounds which are keep separately in the leaves but when the leaves are damaged (due to chewing) the […]
Mallorca – Part 1
On the Sunday I landed back in Birmingham airport after a week and a half in Mallorca on a field trip. The field trip formed the majority of teaching for the ‘A Field Guide to Evolution’ module and I can honestly say it has one of the best things I have done at uni so […]
End of term 2
That’s it, it’s the end of the second term (well almost, I still have the field trip which starts on Wednesday) and the start of the Easter holidays! I thought I might take this chance to reflect on what I have been up to over the last few months! This term started with […]
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