Outreach and Media

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Fieldwork Vlog Series

Check out the whole series here!

Fieldwork Vlogs Part 1: Travelling from Toronto to Madagascar – Join me in this video for part 1 of a fieldwork vlog series where I travel to Madagascar for the first of two 6 month field seasons to collect data for my PhD research. In this video, I cover the first 10 days of my trip from leaving Toronto (on my birthday!) and heading to my fieldsite for the first time this year!

Academic Chats

Academic Chats: Mental health in the field – In this video, I talk about mental health in the field and my own experience with mental health during extended periods of time away from home during field research. Everybody’s journey with their personal mental health is different, but I wanted to just get us talking a bit more about how hard and conflicting it can be when we leave home, family and friends for long periods of time.

Blogs

Creature Candy: Guest Blog Post

Recently a blog post I created on ‘5 simple steps to reduce your plastic waste‘ was featured by Creature Candy. Creature Candy are a UK based business created to raise awareness of Britain’s declining native species, in a hope to inspire people to take an active role in conservation efforts on their doorstep.

For each online purchase, information on the species on the product is provided, and 10% of the sale goes to one of the charities Creature Candy supports.

To find out more visit their website.

Operation Wallacea Blog Post

Wrote a blog post for Operation Wallace about my time as a dissertation student at their Madagascar site. The blog was a ‘day in the life’ style where i gave a breakdown of a ‘typical’ day researching in the forest