PhD student Alex Hackmann , from the Insect Biomechanics Workgroup , has won first prize in the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition on 13th March 2014 for his Scanning Electron Microscopy image of a polystyrene particle attached to a cleaning hair of an ant. In the course of evolution insects have developed...

As a direct result of the staff survey and Athena SWAN discussions, the Department has launched a mentoring scheme for post-docs . We are one of five trial schemes in the University. Pictured at the initial training session for mentors and mentees are: (Left to right): Dr Sharon Saunders, Research Staff Development...

Wendy Whitmore visited the Department yesterday, to hear how the Trust Fund set up in her husband's memory (the Tim Whitmore Zoology Fund ) has been supporting the work of graduate students in our Conservation Science and Aquatic Ecology Groups. Recent recipients of funding gave presentations about their research (pictured...

PhD candidate Nick Crumpton has appeared in episode 2 of Ben Garrod's 'Secrets of Bones' on BBC 4, along with the RVC's Prof. John Hutchinson and UCL's Prof. Susan Evans discussing vertebrate's adaptations to life on (or underneath) the ground. You can view the episode here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vrtkp