The winner of this year’s Janet Moore Prize for supervising in Zoology is Benno Simmons. Benno received his award from Dr Nick Mundy, Deputy Head of Department (Teaching), at last night’s annual Part II Zoology party. The prize is awarded on the basis of nominations from Zoology students and module organisers. Benno, who...

We were delighted to hear that one of our PhD students, Riva Riley has won the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Award for the best " Undergrad supervisor (science and technology)" award for 2017. CUSU received nearly 600 nominations from students for teaching awards across all departments in the University. Nominations were then...

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Balmford on the award of the Pilkington Teaching Prize for Teaching in 2017. Andrew has been a member of the Department since 1998 and has been an inspiring lecturer in both second and third year courses in Ecology and Conservation. He has been one of the key leaders of the second year...

Congratulations to the winners of the Graduate Poster Competition: 1st Prize “Seeing Red to Being Red” Hanlu Twyman, supervised by Dr Nick Mundy 2nd Prize “Predicting the antigenic evolution of influenza viruses” David Pattinson, supervised by Prof Derek Smith

Many congratulations to Syuan-Jyun Sun from the Behavioural Ecology Group who won the Best Student Talk prize at the Easter Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour meeting, describing his work on the evolutionary interactions between burying beetles and their mites.

On Friday, 18 March 2016 , the Department of Zoology held its annual seminar day at St. John’s College. The day was a great success, thanks to our line-up of exceptional speakers and poster presenters. We would like to congratulate the winners of our poster competition: 1st place: Ben Jarrett “Parental behaviour increases...