Pub Plan...
The Institute is renowned for being a very friendly place to work, with members of all research groups mixing freely both during the working day and afterwards. Many members of the Institute go for a social drink on Friday evenings (after the regular research seminars that take place every Friday afternoon) - since there are many different potential destinations within walking distance of the main University campus, the chosen pub is announced in the weekly Institute newsletter (BAHmail) and on a dedicated Institute Pub Plan Facebook page, which is also used for other social announcements.
Social Events
The Institute has an annual Christmas event that features a lecture from a visiting ornithologist, followed by a party (with buffet meal) and finally a ceilidh (= dance). While the ceilidh music is provided by a live professional band, the tradition is that the party features a short musical item by the ad hoc Institute band, made up of anyone in the Institute who is prepared to play a musical instrument in public. Everyone at least pretends that they enjoy listening to it....
Below are photographs from past events
- Alexander Wilson - celebration evening - 14th June 2013
- IBAHCM Ornithology Christmas Lecture and party 2012 – speaker Dr Claire Spottiswoode, Cambridge University - Ornithology Christmas 14Dec12 (pdf format)
- DEEB Ornithology Christmas Lecture Photos - 5th December 2008 - speaker Dr Lukas Keller, University of Zurich
- Prof. David Houston's Retirement Get-together - 30th May 2008
- DEEB Ornithology Christmas Lecture Photos - 14th December 2007 (pdf format) - speaker Prof Heinz Richner, University of Bern
Past Viva Celebrations - Amazing Cakes!
It is the tradition in the Institute for there to be celebratory drinks and cake when PhD students pass their oral examination - and the research students are getting ever more ambitious in trying to make a cake that sums up the topic of the PhD thesis, as is clear from the examples given below
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Debbie McNeil - Great Crested Newt |
Eliza Leat - 2012- fieldwork |
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Leoni De Wert |
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Donald Reid |
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Ashley Le Vin |
Steve Larcombe |
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Karen Millidine |
Katherine Herborn |
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Douglas Kerlin |
Angus Cameron |
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Hussein Jenjan - 2012 |
Nick Beevers - Nephrops |
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Juan Hernando - 2012 - Gannet |
John Hume - Lamprey |
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Andy Watts - 2012 - nephrops |
David Murray - 2012 |
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Gemma Jennings - 2012 |
Zara Gladman - 2012 |
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Maria de Lourdez Ruiz - 20th March 2009 |
Adriana Vallarino - 24th April 2008 |
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Susie Coyle - 1st March 2007 |
Veronica Neves - 15th December 2007 |
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