Our annual Alumni and Friends Open Day, last Saturday, 27 September was a great success. It was a pleasure to welcome so many old friends back to the Department. The packed programme included lab tours with Prof Nick Mundy, Dr Iris Hardege, Prof Howard Baylis, Dr William Foster and Dr Tiffany Ki, a lecture, 'Feeding the...

Livestock ranching threatens aquatic insects, large-scale analysis finds A paper published this week in Global Change Biology led by Lindsey Barnes and Andrew Bladon of our Agroecology Group , describes the effect of livestock farming and ranching on aquatic insects. The Group, led by Prof Lynn Dicks, has been involved in...

Adapted from text by Fiona Gilsenan (Corpus Christi College) Research into peacock spiders by an international team, including PhD candidate candidate Jonah Walker and his doctoral supervisor Dr Joana Meier, featured on BBC One's breakfast programme this morning. Jonah is a member of Joana’s research group , which is based...

We’re very pleased to announce that Professor Andrew Balmford FRS has won the inaugural Royal Society Environment Medal and Lecture for outstanding and sustained work in environmental science. The award recognises Andrew’s 'groundbreaking contributions to conservation science, having built transformative partnerships and...