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Behavioural ecology field trip – Devon
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on April 22, 2019
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Behavioural ecology, Devon, Easter, field trip, Third year
Conservation Biology Field Trip – Part 2
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on June 24, 2018
As you will know if you read part 1 of this post, I spent last week on the conservation biology field course. This makes up part of the teaching for the third year module, which I will study next year in semester 1. Over the week we went to locations around Leicestershire and Rutland to […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, field trip, Third year, Wildlife | 2 Responses

Conservation Biology Field Trip – Part 1
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on June 17, 2018
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 […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, field trip, Third year, Wildlife

Mallorca – Part 2
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on April 21, 2018
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 […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged A Field Guide to Evolution, Cyanogenesis, field trip, Mallorca, student project

Mallorca – Part 1
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on April 18, 2018
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 […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged A Field Guide to Evolution, botany, field trip, Mallorca, sea, species diversity, sun, Zoology

End of term 2
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on March 30, 2018
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 […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged Committee, dissertation, Easter, End of term, Equestrian and Polo, field trip, gym, Internship, Lab Placement, Lets Do Leicester, Module choices, Revision, Sport, Term 2
Preparing for a field trip
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on March 10, 2018
I have an exciting start to the Easter holidays to look forward to as I head of to Mallorca, for just under two weeks, on a field trip. The field trip will make up to majority of teaching for the module ‘A field guide to evolution’ and the assessment for this module is a report […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged evolution, field trip, Mallorca, Study
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