Outreach

At the University, we provide field trips to the Cole Museum of Zoology and the Harris Garden. We can also visit your school for talks and career days.

We require a minimum of 2 weeks’ notice to reserve space and plan activities.

• Talks and interactive demos for primary and secondary schools on climate change, conservation biology, why plants matter, biodiversity in plants, evolution, how to survey wildlife, animal taxonomy using the Cole Museum.
• Career Day visits on what it means to be a scientist, educator or conservation biologist, and what you can do with a biology degree.

• The Whiteknights Biodiversity project encourages student participation in reporting of biodiversity on campus
• The Cole Museum of Zoology tweets about specimens @ColeZoology and has a blog about the museum
• Dr Alastair Culham tweets about plant diversity @RNGherb.

Our academics write many books and popular science articles and often appear on TV and radio shows.

Books by our academics include:

• The Self Delusion by Tom Oliver
• 30-Second Biology by Nick Battey and Mark Fellowes
• 30-Second Evolution by Nick Battey and Mark Fellowes
• Garden Entomology by Amanda Callaghan and Mark Fellowes.