Details of student and placement Name: Oliver Baines Institution: University of Nottingham Placement Host: United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) From February-April 2021, I was lucky enough to carry out a 3-month placement at United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), working in the Climate Change and Biodiversity programme. Having […]

Details of student and placement Name: Jeneen Hadj-Hammou Institution: Lancaster University Placement Host: Wildlife Conservation Society   I completed a three-month internship with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) team in the final year of my PhD, from January-April 2021. My internship focussed on contributing to the management of a new marine Trans-Boundary Conservation Area (TBCA) […]

Details of student and placement Name: Helen Ford Institution: Bangor University Placement Host: Zoological Society of London   I wanted to do a placement with a scientist that I have admired since I first saw her give a talk at a conference in the first year of my PhD. I had heard great things about […]

Details of student and placement Name: Beth Clark Institution: Bangor University Placement Host: HM Government Open Innovation Team   I applied to do a placement with the Open Innovation Team at the end of 2019, in my third year of a part time PhD in Ocean Science. I was keen to get a taste of […]