Myerscough HE Animal Studies

Opportunities!

🌵 WANTED! WANTED! 🌵INTERNATIONAL INTERNS.

Dreaming of gaining hands-on conservation experience in one of Namibia’s most spectacular desert landscapes?

Kanaan Desert Retreat is looking for enthusiastic international interns to join an exciting Quiver Tree Survey in the heart of the Namib Desert.

As a conservation-focused property, Kanaan is dedicated to protecting Namibia’s unique biodiversity through ecological monitoring, habitat protection, and sustainable land management. This internship offers a rare opportunity for BSc or MSc students, as well as recent graduates in Environmental Science, Ecology, or Conservation, to gain valuable field research experience while living and working in a truly breathtaking environment.

📍 Southern Namibia
🌿 Hands-on field research
🌵 Desert ecosystem conservation
🎓 Ideal for students & recent graduates

Ready for an unforgettable conservation adventure?

👉 Apply now and view full details: https://www.naankuse.org/careers

Huge thanks to Jess Aikman for organising the end of year trip to Chester Zoo for our hard working students and staff yesterday. We were joined by Geoff Hosey who was delighted to see a copy of the first edition of his book “Zoo Animals” in the lab mock up display! No photos of humans as we were all too hot but here are some animal photos from the day including Womble the two month old aardvark and a cat eyed mantis (click on the rest of the photos to see it circled if you can’t find it in the main photo)

Last week was one of the proudest days of the year for HE lecturers at Myerscough. Our final year students presented the results of their research conducted over the last nine months at our showcase event. Numerous industry guests were invited to discuss the students’ work and meet the next generation of animal scientists joining the industry imminently. A huge thanks to all our industry partners who supported us on the day. Greenspace, Equine and Floristry departments also joined in the event so there was a really interesting diversity of research presented.
Award winners were Connie Rawcliffe (BSc Zoology) for Best Poster, Ashleigh Watkins (BSc Zoology) for Runner up Best Poster, both pictured below, and Sophie Melling (BA Equine Management) for the Aspinall Endeavour Prize (awarded to the student who has shown outstanding effort and dedication against the odds).
Very well done to all our students, we are proud of each and every one of you, it is tough presenting and being graded with an audience in attendance but you all smashed it!

https://www.myerscough.ac.uk/news/degree-students-celebrate-their-research-projects-at-annual-graduate-showcase/

May be of interest to our upcoming graduates 😊

Job opportunity 📢 Assistant Ecologist

Are you at the start of your ecological career and looking for a role where no two days are the same? We're looking for an enthusiastic and passionate individual to join our team, supporting the delivery of ecological consultancy services and conservation projects across the region.

🎯 Wednesday 29th April
🔗 Apply https://www.lancswt.org.uk/jobs/assistant-ecologist

You'll work alongside experienced ecologists on a varied programme of surveys, site visits, and client facing work, gaining hands on experience that spans the full project lifecycle, from fieldwork through to professional reporting.

Good luck! 🍀

Go Allis!

Donate to Help protect our beloved Hedgehogs!, organized by Allis Pretelli Hello I'm Allis, a zoology student looking to raise funds to help protect our belov… Allis Pretelli needs your support for Help protect our beloved Hedgehogs!

Please consider supporting our Allis with a donation as she runs 10k to raise funds for our Myerscough College Hedgehog Friendly Campus group. The link is here

Donate to Help protect our beloved Hedgehogs!, organized by Allis Pretelli Hello I'm Allis, a member of the Hedgehog Friendly Campus programme at Myerscough C… Allis Pretelli needs your support for Help protect our beloved Hedgehogs!

Our first year students experienced a valuable life lesson this week by taking part in a fantastic fundraising effort where they sold home baked cakes and donated books and gifts in class. This was to raise funds for Hedgehog Rescue Blackpool who have given us our six resident hedgehogs (Lottie, Lee, Hazelnut, Harry, Horace and Hector) and Chorley Hedgehog Rescue both of whom will be busy caring for sick, injured and underweight hedgehogs who need to stay in this winter. Check out our page to see what else we get up to: Myerscough College Hedgehog Friendly Campus

Massive congratulations to Helen Ashton who is currently studying for an MSc Animal Science at Myerscough College & University Centre. Helen was nominated by her tutors for the Land-Based and Environment HE Student of the year award, organised by LANTRA. Out of 50,000 students nationwide last night Helen not only won her category of Animal Care and Management, she also won the overall HE Student award (“Best in Show!”). Congratulations Helen, the whole team is so proud of your achievements 🥳

What a fantastic day at the Myerscough College & University Centre annual research conference! Inspiring speakers, fabulous industry-relevant research and a successful set of assessments for our second year FdSc’s at their Industry Project expo. Well done to Charlotte and the HE team for all the organising 🥳

Happy Hallowe’en everyone from the second year Animal Studies students who took some time off their studies to carve pumpkins which were then used as enrichment for selected animals on the unit.