Elizabeth Hopkinson

  I was thoroughly looking forward to this module as I knew that it would be helpful considering I was unsure on my future. Although I was not looking forward to the seminars quite as much, they were altogether much more interesting than I thought they would be, and although some provided slightly too much […]

My comments for Aprils blogs: Chat moss project I also gained a lot more from this seminar than I thought I would! Elspeth spoke with such a passion for her work which I think was one of the things which made it so much more interesting. Peatlands are something which unless you specifically study them, […]

The assignment was to write about each section of a business plan, describing what it was, why it was important to the business plan as well as why knowing how to write that section would help our future careers. As I am unsure of my future career as of yet I felt like for many […]

‘Protecting Wildlife for the future” My first thought going into this seminar was that it would not be as interesting as others, considering my interests in biology are more molecular ecology, evolution and drug based. This being the case, I actually came out thinking that it was a talk in which I had learnt the […]

The first comment I made for March was: Tim Hall’s hitch hikers guide to Forestry Although I did not attend this talk I find this topic quite interesting. However, from your blog I didn’t feel like you summarised much of the talk as it was mainly composed of your own experiences on the matter. I know […]

‘Fix it, don’t ban it’- was the phrase used by Peter to describe the future of the bushmeat trade. The bushmeat trade is currently a crisis which is happening in many parts of Africa, occurring because of many reasons including: Human population growth, therefore an increased demand Open access to most land with no clear ownership […]

Although called Dragons Den I found this assessment more like a mix of this and a task on the Apprentice. I enjoyed how unlike the assessment centre, this workshop was many small tasks leading up to one pitch which summarised what you had been working on all day. We had a choice of whether to […]

Below are the two blogs I have commented on this month, one from a talk I attend and the other a squirrel seminar which I did not attend: February Post – Model species Daphnia: a genome for the environment I found your blog very easy to read as it was well broken up into paragraphs with […]

Before the attendance of the Employability module I thought my CV was quite good… how wrong I was! I had made many of the ‘not what to do’ criterial such as: Titling it Curriculum Vitae Taking up many lines with my personal details and education Taking up more than 2 pages Stating all employments, even […]

‘John Kenneth Colbourne joined the faculty of the University of Birmingham in 2012 and holds its inaugural Chair of Environmental Genomics. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, a founding member of the Daphnia Genomics Consortium (DGC) and of the Shanghai Consortium for Environmental Genomics and Toxicology, Section-Editor for BMC […]