Staff Newsletter 20 September
- Annabel Jackson (Deactivated)
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Important Information
Farewell to Michelle coffee morning - Wed 25 Sep
Our fabulous Student Services Manager, Michelle Barton, departs at the end of the month to start a new role in Economics. Come along to Coffee Morning on Wed 25 Sep, 10:30-11:00 in the Heartspace to wish her farewell. Extra baked goods will be most welcome!
Good News
⭐Sam Buckton has had a paper published in The Naturalist: Buckton SJ (2024) The terrestrial flatworm Marionfyfea adventor Jones & Sluys (2016) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Geoplanidae) new to Yorkshire from St Nicholas Fields LNR, York. The Naturalist 1116, 111-113. Sam was also invited to contribute statements for the International Evaluation Academy's ‘Three Horizons Initiative for Evaluation’ (3HEi) project/survey to help advance deep thinking about the future of the evaluation field in a time of polycrisis.
⭐ On 11th September, Liz Hurrell delivered a presentation titled "Tackling Britain’s Environmental Challenges: a solutions-focused, multidisciplinary, role-play field module" at the Enhancing Fieldwork Learning showcase event. Martin Varley (from Cumbria Connect) and Dean Waters were co-authors on the presentation. Liz has also been elected as a committee member for the RGS-IBG Geography Education Research Group!
⭐Oliver Andrews has been selected to join the CMIP7 author team for Earth Systems. This is the WCRP climate modelling exercise that will run alongside and inform IPCC AR7.
⭐ Tom Sloan published apaper from his PhD work in Science of the Total Environment on carbon stocks in afforested peatlands in the Flow Country in northern Scotland. Tom was supervised by the late Richard Payne and Roland Gehrels, who are both co-authors. Tom is now a postdoc at Leeds.
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