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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…
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 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…
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…
Martin Cowie is the Technical Resources Manager in the School of Biological Sciences.
On the 18th of November, I was delighted to be able to represent the 51cg at the 2024 Technician Commitment Signatory Event held at the Royal College of Pathologists in Whitechapel, London. The event brought…
At the beginning of June, QUADRAT DTP second year students from 51cg and Queens University Belfast reunited in Courmayeur, Italy to spend the week together to learn more about glaciology. QUADRAT DTP is a partnership between the 51cg and Queen’s University Belfast that offers studentships that…
After finishing my Honour’s project dissertation, I was incredibly lucky to receive an opportunity to present my undergraduate research, a project titled “Niche Partitioning of Native British Bumblebees on a Temporal and Floral Resource Scale in Machair Habitat on Orkney, Scotland” at the Posters in Parliament session in the Houses…
This September I attended the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) 2023 Annual Science Conference. For my PhD studies, I have been using genetic data to explore the underlying latent state of population connectivity in the black-legged kittiwake. The kittiwake, a seabird with a circumpolar distribution in…
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be selected to attend the 12th ERASMUS+ Staff Training Week at the University of Malaga (UMA). The event had delegates from 32 countries and 42 universities, and I was one of three people attending from the UK. Our first day…
