Muhammad is currently a PhD candidate having been selected for the Commonwealth Split-Site PhD Scholarship 2023-2024. His passion, sparked as the child of a farmer, has taken him across the globe and landed him an academic career researching the climate impact on crops.
I, Muhammad Saeed, am currently pursuing a…
In April of 2024, I was fortunate to receive support from the Charles Sutherland Scholarship fund, which significantly contributed to my research. This funding allowed me to partially cover the expenses associated with a field work trip to Denmark.
The primary purpose of this trip was to collect DNA samples…
At the beginning of June, QUADRAT DTP second year students from University of Aberdeen and Queens University Belfast reunited in Courmayeur, Italy to spend the week together to learn more about glaciology. QUADRAT DTP is a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast that offers studentships that…
After finishing my Honour’s project dissertation, I was incredibly lucky to receive an opportunity to present my undergraduate research, a project titled “Niche Partitioning of Native British Bumblebees on a Temporal and Floral Resource Scale in Machair Habitat on Orkney, Scotland” at the Posters in Parliament session in the Houses…
In the first week of August 2023, I was able to travel to UKCEH in Lancaster thanks to the funding provided by the Charles Sutherland Scholarship. My research project lies under the interdisciplinarity Demonstrator ‘Perennial Bioenergy Crops for Greenhouse Gas Removal’ (PBC4GGR) and aims to bring scientific support and best…
As you walk the aisles of your local grocery store, you are balancing a multitude of internal and external factors that together influence your food decisions. Your personal preferences, family eating history, and receptivity to advertising comingle with internal signals indicating your level of hunger or any nutritional deficiencies you…
This September I attended the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) 2023 Annual Science Conference. For my PhD studies, I have been using genetic data to explore the underlying latent state of population connectivity in the black-legged kittiwake. The kittiwake, a seabird with a circumpolar distribution in…
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be selected to attend the 12th ERASMUS+ Staff Training Week at the University of Malaga (UMA). The event had delegates from 32 countries and 42 universities, and I was one of three people attending from the UK. Our first day…
Whilst nearing the end of my final year of my BSc Marine Biology at the University of Aberdeen, I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to present my Honours Thesis: “Assessing predator-prey interactions within an operational wind farm” at the Houses of Parliament in London.
The ‘Posters in…
QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) is a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast. The doctoral training partnership offers studentships covering three themes: Biodiversity, Earth Systems and Environmental Management. In 2023, we are going to welcome our fifth group of students.
Ivana Drdakova (she/her) has been working…
