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

  • 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

‌Debbie McNeil - Great Crested Newt

 

Eliza Leat - 2012 - fieldwork

     

Leoni De Wert

     
 

Donald Reid

     

Ashley Le Vin

 

Steve Larcombe

     

Karen Millidine

 

Katherine Herborn

     

Douglas Kerlin

 

Angu‌s Cameron

     

Hussein Jenjan - 2012

 

Nick Beevers - Nephrops

     

Juan Hernando - 2012 - Gannet

 

John Hume - Lamprey

     

Andy Watts - 2012 - nephrops

 

David Murray - 2012

     

 

Gemma Jennings - 2012

 

 

Zara Gladman - 2012

     

 

 Maria de Lourdez Ruiz - 20th March 2009

 

 

     Adriana Vallarino - 24th April 2008
     

 

 Susie Coyle - 1st March 2007

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  Veronica Neves - 15th December 2007

 
 ‌‌Patrick Walsh - 31st March 2008