Great news! Over the next two years, FERG will be building collaborative research with the Intraspecific Diversity Lab, Raul Costa-Pereira’s research group at Unicamp, Brazil! This is a really exciting project funded by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Brazil’s São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP. This project will involve exchanges between the twoContinueContinue reading “Jordan secured NERC-FAPESP funding with Raul Costa-Pereira to kickstart new UK-Brazil collaborative research!”
Category Archives: Achievements
FERG joined NEG in hosting EcoNet 2025!
Following the last Symposium on Ecological Networks (EcoNet) in Israel in 2023 (which was the topic of one of our first blog posts), Darren Evans of the Network Ecology Group (NEG) was approached to host the next EcoNet. Darren asked Jordan, Katherine Baldock of Northumbria University, Madeleine Fabusova from NEG and Shai Pilosof from theContinueContinue reading “FERG joined NEG in hosting EcoNet 2025!”
Jordan awarded RES Alfred Russel Wallace Award
Jordan has been awarded the Royal Entomological Society’s Alfred Russel Wallace Award for his PhD thesis, submitted in 2020! The award is for post-graduates who have been awarded a PhD, and whose work is considered by their supervisory team to be outstanding. The research involved should be a significant contribution to the science of entomology. TheContinueContinue reading “Jordan awarded RES Alfred Russel Wallace Award”
Congrats to Rosy on being elected RES Student Rep!
Massive congratulations to Rosy on being selected to be the next Royal Entomological Society Student Representative! The RES Student Reps represent the society in a wide range of contexts, and represent the views of postgraduate students in society matters too. One of the most significant contributions they make is the organisation of the annual StudentContinueContinue reading “Congrats to Rosy on being elected RES Student Rep!”
Our nutritional networks paper shortlisted for the 2024 Elton Prize!
We are super excited that our paper from last year proposing the concept of ‘nutritional networks’ has been shortlisted for Journal of Animal Ecology’s 2024 Elton Prize! The Elton Prize celebrates ‘the best paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology by an early career author.’ It is named after Charles Elton, a pioneer in the field ofContinueContinue reading “Our nutritional networks paper shortlisted for the 2024 Elton Prize!”
Ben and Jordan become Open Research Champions for Newcastle University!
As part of a new initiative across Newcastle University, Ben and Jordan have been made Open Research Champions! This involves advocating for open research at events both locally and institutionally, and forming part of Newcastle University’s wider progress toward open research as part of its research culture priorities. This follows Ben and Jordan both separatelyContinueContinue reading “Ben and Jordan become Open Research Champions for Newcastle University!”
Congrats to Will for winning a presentation award at the Fera Symposium!
Massive congrats to Will for winning the Best Early Researcher Presentation Prize at the Fera Science Symposium! This was the first talk Will has given in his PhD, so he’s off to a great start! Titled “Noisy eaters! Building belowground invertebrate trophic networks for soil health monitoring using metagenomics and ecoacoustics”, Will’s talk set outContinueContinue reading “Congrats to Will for winning a presentation award at the Fera Symposium!”
Congrats to Ben for receiving an Open Research Commendation!
Massive congrats to Ben for being awarded an Open Research Commendation at Newcastle University’s recent 2024 Open Research Awards! Ben wrote a case study and gave a presentation about his experience of adopting open research practices throughout his PhD so far, including his involvement in open datasets, open protocols, and the preprint and open accessContinueContinue reading “Congrats to Ben for receiving an Open Research Commendation!”
Jordan shortlisted for national postdoc award
On his last day as a postdoc before officially starting his Newcastle University Academic Track Fellowship through which FERG is being established, Jordan was shortlisted for the Impact for Postdoc Careers Award! He was nominated for his work in establishing the researcher network, a network for representing, connecting and supporting postdocs and other researchers acrossContinueContinue reading “Jordan shortlisted for national postdoc award”
Open Research Award for Jordan and FERG!
Jordan was awarded the 2023 Newcastle University Open Research Award!
Foraging Ecology Research Group 