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Have a PhD? Enjoy Science communication and outreach? Have you ever considered teaching in secondary schools? If, so why not check out the Researchers in Schools programme here.
What is it like to work on the Edinburgh Teaching Award? A blog about my experience can be found here.
Where do you learn best ?Is it always in the classroom? https://iad4learnteach.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/where-is-the-classroom/
Research the Headlines recently did a piece on the recent Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'api eruption.
Congratulations to Rebecca Astbury who won the student prize in her session at VMSG. Well done. Also thanks to everyone who organised VMSG 2015, a brilliant meeting.
Did you know just 30% of the world researchers are female? A new interactive tool has been developed by UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
27A Edinburgh Brownies, part of GirlGuidingUK are currently busy putting together their judging panel for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. The Brownies were very excited to learn they had been chosen as part of this year's voting panel.
The Young Academy of Scotland welcomed 43 new members, including myself in July 2014. See the press release here.
See what is going on with the Scottish Geodiversity Forum here
The Earth Science Education Scotland is currently running a campaign to retain the Higher Geology in Scotland and to increase the earth science content of the curriculum in general. See http://earthscienceeducationscotland.com/ for more information.