From the macro to the micro: analysis from the IES

Gitte Kragh
Article
August 2016

environmental SCIENTIST | They Walk Among Us: The Rise of Citizen Science | August 2016


Millions of people worldwide spend their valuable time engaged in volunteering. Why? It all starts with the concept of motivation and therefore exploring motivations can...

Chloe Fletcher
Article
August 2016

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is fundamental to an environmental professional’s career. It offers individuals the opportunity to augment their ability within the workplace by furthering their knowledge of a discipline, demonstrating professional achievements, enhancing career...

Noel Nelson
Blog
August 2016

Dr Noel Nelson, the current Chair of the IES, is an environmental scientist presently working on the role the atmosphere and the weather plays in transmitting a wide range of animal related diseases. Noel has always had an interest in space and astronomy, and in this blog explores what...

Christopher Betts
Blog
August 2016

The principal element of my first degree, when ecology was still a relatively new subject, was entitled Ecosystems and Man and Mark Everard’s latest work provides a fascinating compendium of the intellectual revolution that has occurred over the decades since then.  This book...

Robert Ashcroft
Blog
July 2016

It has been a complicated, fast-paced, and often frankly confusing month in British politics. There was barely time to take stock of the implications of the vote to leave the European Union on the 23rd June, before we were confronted with leadership battles, resignations, re-shuffles, and re-re-...

Robert Ashcroft
Blog
June 2016

In the wake of the referendum result, many in the environmental and science communities are shocked and concerned about the future.


The UK now faces much uncertainty regarding the future of funding for some scientific research, as well as the freedom of movement for researchers and...

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