Funding, Awards and Other Qualifications

Funding

QUADRAT DTP - NERC PhD studentship (2019-2023)

Disertation Title: "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)

I 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.

Conference Attendance Grant - British Ornithologist Union (2023)

I was awarded a travel grant from the BOU to travel to the European Ornithological Union in 2023 as my oral presentation was selected to be given alongside the invited speakers for the seminar "Tools to monitor bird contamination and exposure effects".

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).

Other Qualifications

Charted Management Institute Level 7: Strategic Management and Leadership qualification, 2021
Rescue Diver - PADI, 2015
QUADRAT DTP
UKRI
Vogelwarte
The University of Edinburgh