Posts in this category are about the various science outreach activities and learning I participate in.
You should be recording your lectures. I’m salty about this.
This is as close as I’ll come to an academic year in review
Is it cruel to keep a fennec fox . . . on a vegan diet. This was the catchily provocative title of the BBC News article that riled me up this morning. What really angers me about this whole article is the tone of the debate. The two ‘balanced’ opinions Read more…
I want to tell you why I have chosen to join my fellow members of the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) in industrial action from the 28th February. I consider myself incredibly lucky in my career. I am lucky, because I only signed on once after my PhD, for a Read more…
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a writer. As a child, I filled endless notebooks with my stories. They were mostly stories about animals, or thinly veiled replicas of Lord of the Rings. I may even have tried my hand at the odd love Read more…
For the record, I managed two whole plenaries in AMEE before I was overcome with opinions and had to blog about it. First things first, AMEE 2017, an International Association for Medical Education, has been a bit of a revelation for me. Sitting in a crowd of 3800 medical educators, Read more…
I am terrible at training animals. No, really, I am. Any good behaviour my animals show is mostly entirely accidental. I understand the theory, I can correctly distinguish between continuous and variable reward schedules, but I lack patience, and I lack consistency, two of the key aspects of animal training. Read more…
Hey folks – while I edit the book, I’d like to give you another blog recommendation. NextGen Dairy is from a friend of mine I met at ISAE a few years ago. Amy has always had really interesting ideas and looked for practical applications for animal welfare science. Glad to Read more…
Have you always wanted to hear my opinions on MOOCs but been unable to bring yourself to search through the MOOCs tag of this blog (or read the papers, or look at Twitter, or . . . never mind). Well it’s good news for you! The Human Behavioural Change for Read more…
Quick – what’s the difference between parliament and government? If, like me, this question makes you mimic a quizzical puppy – imagine sitting in one of the beautiful meeting rooms in the Scottish Parliament while this is Q.1 in our pop quiz introduction to the Academic Engagement with Parliament workshop. Thankfully Read more…
