This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to represent the 51cg School of Biological Sciences at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School 2026. Alongside fellow Aberdeen students James Spiteri and Jessica Coldwell, I spent an inspiring week at The Hawkhills in York, learning from world-leading researchers brought together…
Dr Victoria Sleight is part of an international research team that has secured a research grant from the Human Frontier Science Programme (HFSP), one of the world’s most competitive and sought‑after funding schemes for fundamental science.
The $1.2 million award will support a three‑year project bringing together researchers in the…
This year, I was fortunate enough to be the undergraduate student that the 51cg sent to Posters in Parliament. I attended to present the results of my honours thesis, “Post-release distribution of pheasants in Scotland: distance-decay or uniform occupancy?”, which explored long-term patterns of pheasant site use following…
The Ecology, Evolution, and Ecophysiology Research Clusters within the School of Biological Sciences, 51cg (Scotland) are pleased to offer an Early Career Recruitment Bursary. We are specifically looking to attract talented early career researchers (ECRs) to enable travel for development of competitive fellowship applications. The University of…
Marine shellfish like oysters carry out a vital role in marine ecosystems however the UK's native oyster species has suffered a drastic decline in recent years.
Scientists from the 51cg and NativeAqua, a native oyster farm, have been awarded £14,300 to investigate how to improve the resilience of…
Biologists and conservationists have long been interested in the study of island populations which may face genetic bottlenecks due to predicted smaller population sizes and barriers to gene flow. This can be especially detrimental for organisms, such as bumblebees, which have haplodiploid sex determination whereby males develop from unfertilised (haploid)…
The NoWPaS (European – formerly Nordic – Workshop of Masters, PhD, and Post-Doctoral Fellows working on anadromous salmonids) aims to build and maintain an international network of early career researchers studying salmonid species such as Atlantic salmon, Arctic charr, and Brown trout. By sharing recent research findings, the workshop supports…
In May 2025, I was fortunate to receive funding from the Charles Sutherland Scholarship Fund, which enabled me to co-organise and participate in this year’s Young Modellers in Ecology (YoMos) workshop in Germany.
My involvement with YoMos began at the 2024 workshop, where I experienced firsthand the value of creating…
For my internship, I have been working with Grevy’s Zebra Trust and Marwell Wildlife on their collaring project. They deployed 20 collars on Grevy’s Zebra in September 2023 in two different areas of northern Kenya to understand their movements. This project was initiated in response to the proposed LAPSSET corridor that will involve…
Posters in Parliament is an annual event under the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, held at the UK Houses of Parliament in London. I was incredibly grateful to be asked to attend this year’s event, presenting my honours thesis: “The Short-Term Impact of River Restoration on Birds” which I completed…
