Sharing Learning and Good Practice: Arup and BSG collaborate to Provide Staff Training
During 2020 BSG Ecology and Arup have collaborated to provide training in dormouse survey and monitoring for staff working towards licences.
During 2020 BSG Ecology and Arup have collaborated to provide training in dormouse survey and monitoring for staff working towards licences.
Training provision during 2020 has been significantly complicated by Covid-19. To address this, we have attempted to integrate job-related work with training wherever possible. One such initiative has seen Dr Jim Fairclough, our lead entomologist, providing training to staff based in South Wales, Derbyshire and Newcastle in invertebrate survey.
This article aims to provide guidance to students, graduates and early career ecologists on the skill sets they might seek to develop, and how to set themselves apart from their peers in a highly competitive job market. It is an updated version of the article last...
Dr Tom Flynn, Principal Ecologist, has recently been awarded Chartered Ecologist status by the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM).
During winter 2019/20 ecologist Emily Moore has taken a sabbatical to travel and to work with the African Bat Conservation Trust. She has been involved in research in relation to the ecology of various bat species, including little epauletted fruit bat, white-bellied free-tailed bat, yellow-bellied house bat, and Egyptian slit-faced bat, and has also taken part in local projects to raise awareness of the benefits of healthy bat populations to ecosystems and local communities.