News
Read on for a round-up of what has been going on recently in the Department of Biological Sciences.
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August 3, 2021
Biological Sciences department represented at the Animal Welfare Research Network (AWRN) 6th annual meeting
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August 3, 2021
Dr Krista McLennan presented her work on the automated detection of emotional states through facial expression in sheep to over 200 neuroscience and animal welfare scientists on 14th June 2021.
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August 3, 2021
Dr Krista McLennan hosted a workshop on time management and resilience as part of the AWRN’s Early Career Researchers (ECRs) Monthly Meet Ups on 29th March 2021.
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August 3, 2021
Dr Krista McLennan delivers talk to Laboratory Animal Science Association group on using facial expression to assess welfare of sheep.
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April 20, 2021
Finn was the first in his family to go to University and successfully completed his BSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare
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April 20, 2021
Professor Cynthia Burek has been asked to act as one of three judges in a UN Committee
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September 29, 2020
One of our department's PhD students, Morgan Welch, has just had her first research paper published in the journal Animals. Morgan's PhD focuses on the behaviour and welfare of Livingstone's fruit bats
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June 9, 2020
In February 2020, members of our department shared their research with the public at two local events: Chester SciBar and Chester Zoo's Conservation & Cocktails event.
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May 14, 2020
On 9th December, Professor Carl Smith delivered a fascinating research seminar summarising over 20 years of research on bitterlings - various species of fish found in shallow water habitats.
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May 14, 2020
PhD Students Kate Peters and Rachel Ball have both had abstracts accepted at the BES Ecological Genetics Group conference which will be held at the University of St Andrews later on in the year.
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January 23, 2020
In December 2019, Professor Cynthia Burek signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Univerity's previous Vice Chancellor Professor Tim Wheeler.