Funding and Awards

Funding

QUADRAT DTP - NERC PhD studentship (2019-2023)

My ongoing PhD is titled: "Flying sentinels: using a long-distance migratory bird to assess exposure to POPs over two continents and their health consequences."

Studentship - University of Edinburgh (2017)

Completed a 10 week studentship to get my undergraduate project researching the effects of parent-offspring competition in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides. Published paper available here.

Awards

Best student presentation - 2022

I received the award for the best student presentation at the QUADRAT DTP annual science meeting. I presented the preliminary results of the first chapter in my PhD thesis. This research will now be presented at the British Ecological Society (BES) in Edinburgh this year (December 2022).

Good ways to reach me are through email or twitter. Both can be found below:

• f.gray.19@abdn.ac.uk
• @Chess_95