Top: Stephanie Jayson (left) and Helle Hydeskov (right) at graduation. Below left: our much-missed colleague Ben Collen, pictured with Sir David Attenborough. Below right: the ‘Where the wild things are’ team in action
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▲ Wild Science Podcast
▲ Master of Veterinary Medicine graduations
Stephanie Jayson and Helle Hydeskov successfully graduated with a master’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Royal Veterinary College in July 2018. This qualification is an outcome of their senior clinical training scholarships, co-run by ZSL and the Royal Veterinary College. These training programmes focus on Wildlife Population Health and Zoo Health Management, under the governance of the European College of Zoological Medicine. ZSL staff provide a range of teaching in Wildlife Health to veterinarians, from undergraduate placements and postgraduate degrees, such as the MSc in Wild Animal Health, to PhDs and these three-year residency programmes.
▼ Remembering Ben Collen
It is with great sadness that we pay tribute to our friend and colleague, Ben Collen, who died in May at the age of 40 following a bone-cancer diagnosis just 15 months earlier. After completing his PhD at the Institute and Imperial College London in 2005, Ben joined ZSL as a postdoctoral research associate, later heading up our Indicators and Assessments Unit. Ben developed the conceptual and analytical basis for the Living Planet Index, the comprehensive data set that informs the
WWF Living Planet Report. The report is now a staple of the environmental calendar, widely accepted as a trusted barometer of the state of life on our planet. In 2013 Ben became a lecturer then reader in biodiversity at UCL’s Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, but his connection to ZSL continued through his research and supervision of numerous PhD and MSc students. Ben had a gift for science, and a gift for friendship, and he will be sorely missed.
Delve into topical issues in zoology, conservation and the environment with our ZSL Wild Science Podcast. Hosted by Institute researcher Monika Böhm, our podcast offers engaging discussion and insight on the science being done to advance conservation work around the world. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify or any podcast app, or visit zsl.org/zsl-wild-science-podcast to listen to episodes.
▲ Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition is a week-long festival celebrating the most exciting cutting-edge science and technology in the UK. The ZSL stand ‘Where the wild things are’ was one of 22 exhibitors at this year’s event. Twelve thousand visitors, including public and school audiences, had an opportunity to hear how our researchers develop and use novel technologies, such as adapted cameras, tracking devices and camera traps, to monitor and understand the status and behaviour of animals around the world.
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