Education
‘Forest School’ grows respect for Nature
Hannah Brett CBiol MSB, is an ecological consultant who works with the Heart of the Wildwood charity, Oxfordshire, promoting outdoor learning and a holistic educational approach. The Society of Biology’s Regional Grant Scheme is supporting their Forest School for children and parents, throughout 2015. Activities at the Forest School include cooking stick bread on the … Continue reading
How can plants change the world?
Dr Joseph Buhagiar FSB is a lecturer at the University of Malta. He received the first overseas award of the Society of Biology’s Regional Grant Scheme. It all started with an email from David Urry on 6th January pertaining to the Regional Grant Scheme for 2015. Not that I am usually idle but the title … Continue reading
Budding Biologists Inspired by the Science of Survival
By David Snowdon, biology student at Imperial College London and science communicator. Articulated hands, bizarre heart facts and a Velcro organ assembly competition; these were some of the interactive activities on offer at the Society of Biology stand at the Science4u Schools Science Conference at the University of Westminster last month. The theme for the … Continue reading
Eat, Sleep, Wake, Repeat: A day in the life of your hormones at the Big Bang Fair
By David Snowdon, biology student at Imperial College London and science communicator. While wading through packs of schoolchildren on my way to the Society of Biology and Society for Endocrinology stand at the Big Bang Fair I really didn’t know what to expect. These excitable kids had just got off a hot, stuffy coach and were … Continue reading
The value of the patent system
Robert Andrews is a European patent attorney and has worked for Mewburn Ellis LLP since 2006. Robert is running the patently valuable workshop at the Society of Biology on March 10th 2015. Innovation in biological science has allowed for unprecedented improvements in public health: all the way from processes we now think of as basic … Continue reading
Location, location, habitat – who shares our neighbourhood?
By David Urry, regional coordinator for the Society of Biology. Applications for the regional grant scheme close on 12th January 2015. Please contact David to find out more or to get involved with running activities in your local area. Curiosity is an innate and essential human quality. It is also the main driver for scientific … Continue reading
Supporting our future scientists and engineers
Rachel Lambert-Forsyth, director of education and training at the Society of Biology, discusses the role degree accreditation can play in building the next generation of skilled life scientists. On 3rd June, I participated in a panel debate for Westminster Higher Education Forums. The topic of the event was ‘Developing the next generation of scientists … Continue reading
BioArtAttack: closing the gap between art and science
Jenni Lacey, membership marketing officer at the Society of Biology, finds inspiration for BioArtAttack – an art science competition being run as part of Biology Week 2014. Creative thinking is fundamental to problem solving and is often at the heart of great discoveries. At the Society of Biology we want to inspire people from a … Continue reading
A taste of the future in Cardiff
David Urry, regional coordinator at the Society of Biology, discusses his latest event in Cardiff, looking at food sustainability by exploring a ‘Menu of the Future’. Apply to the Regional Grant Scheme if you would like funding to run your own biology event in your local area, or contact your local branch committee to see … Continue reading
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Michael Walsh, policy intern at the Society of Biology, gives a student’s perspective on the largest piece of text that a researcher will write The British Library curates the Electronic Thesis Online Service (EThOS), which is an open access database for UK theses. They are currently running a survey to see how you use theses; … Continue reading