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Posted: 25th February 2011
2011 Free Effective Grant Writing Workshop
Due to popular demand the BES is running its second grant writting workshop at Charles Darwin House on the 20th of May 2011 between 12:00am and 4:30pm.
This year advice will focus around applying for BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) grant funding alongside BES and general grant writing hints and tips. The workshop will be led by the BES Grants Committee Chair Professor Mike Begon and the chair of a BBSRC research committees Professor Richard Bardgett. In addition attendees will be able to go over their previous grant applications with one of a selection of pre-eminent BES members who have been successful in a number of grant applications in the past.
As the limited places on this free workshop are expected to be in high demand, places will be provided on a first come first served basis. A light lunch will be provided but no travel support is available.
Please send an email with your name, current positions and reason for wanting to attend the workshop to the Grants Officer at grants@britishecologicalsociety.org.
20 applicants will be invited to attend and to secure a place a cheque for £50 will be required to be received by the BES at least two weeks before the workshop takes place. This £50 cheque will be return to applicants when they attend but will be forfeited for non attendance.
Posted: 23rd September 2009
Free Effective Grant Writing Workshop
The BES is pleased to announce a grant writing workshop to on the 23rd of April at Charles Darwin House between 12:00am and 4:30pm.
The aim of the day will be to help BES members with their grant writing skills and there will also be some opportunity to discuss a current or previous grant proposal with other participants and with a select panel of "facilitators". These facilitators will be current BES members with numerous successful grant proposals under their belt along with current BES Grant Assessors, a member of the Natural Research Councils Grants team and the BES Grants Officer.
As the limited places on this free workshop are expected to be in high demand, places will be provided on a first come first served basis. A light lunch will be provided but no travel support is available.
Please send an email with your name, current positions and reason for wanting to attend the workshop to the Grants Officer at grants@britishecologicalsociety.org.
25 applicants will be invited to attend and to secure a place a cheque for £50 will be required to be received by the BES at least two weeks before the workshop takes place. This £50 cheque will be return to applicants when they attend but will be forfeited for non attendance.
Posted: 30th September 2009
Applicants are requested to note that the Early Career Project Grant now has two granting rounds. The first round will take place on the 31st of January and the second round deadline will be announced to those shortlisted from round 1 and should be no more than three months from the deadline of the first round.
Applicants are also requested to note that the date of the Public Engagement Grant has been moved form the 23rd of April to the 15th of January.
Posted: 21st August 2009
University of Leeds ecologist and PhD student Ute Bradter has snapped up first prize – worth £750 – in this year's British Ecological Society's photographic competition.
Ute's stunning photograph, taken in Wilderness National Park, South Africa, is of a jaunty, yellow male Cape Weaver bird using his acrobatic and weaving skills to construct one of several nests to impress potential mates. The apt title of her photograph is “tying the knot”.
More than 120 photographs were entered for this year's competition.
According to Ute: “I took the picture in November last year in Wilderness National Park, South Africa. It was fascinating how this male weaver bird worked tirelessly to construct something bigger than himself from just grass, and how he clung on to the beginnings of the nest – sometimes with just one leg – while working. I watched and photographed him for several hours, and this picture is one of my favorites from the sequence because it shows his acrobatic skills and I liked the curve in the blade of grass he was using.”
To see press coverage please visist: http://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/content.php?nID=739;id=565
Celebrating ecology – an exhibition of images from the British Ecological Society photographic competition will be on show at the University of Hertfordshire's De Havilland Campus from 8-10 September 2009.
2009 Winning entries can be viewed by using the following link: BES Photographic competition winners 2009
Posted: 21st August 2009
University of Hull ecologist Dr Silviu Petrovan has snapped up two prizes worth £350 in this year's British Ecological Society's photographic competition.
Silviu's photograph of a female adder, taken in the North York Moors National Park, so impressed the judges that the image was chosen as overall runner up as well as winner of the student category.
More than 120 photographs were entered for this year's competition.
According to Silviu: “The picture was taken with a compact camera and the female adder became interested in the front of the lens and started tasting the air with her tongue to try and identify the mysterious object. I like the fact that it shows adders probably as close as possible to how another adder or small animal - maybe one of the rodents about to become its next meal - would see it.”
Celebrating ecology – an exhibition of images from the British Ecological Society photographic competition will be on show at the University of Hertfordshire's De Havilland Campus from 8-10 September 2009.
To see press coverage please visist: http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Ssssnake-snap-picks-up-the.5578939.jp
2009 Winning entries can be viewed by using the following link: BES Photographic competition winners 2009
Posted: 16th July 2009
Dr Philip Nyeko, a 2005 BES Award Winner and a 2007 Fellowship Award winner has just had his paper published in BIOTROPICA. This was a result of his Overseas Bursary grant.
Posted: 16th July 2009
Dr. Rutledge Steve Boyes who after completing his recent Overseas Bursary Award has been awarded a PostDoc position at the NRF/DST Centre of Excellence at the Perct FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town.
Posted: 14th July 2009
A 2009 Public Engagement Grant awarded to Dr Micheal Pockock from Bristol University entitled "Our web of life: Understanding how we depend upon nature and nature depends on us." has been shown on BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8140215.stm
The project was also mentioned in the Bristol Evening Post:
Posted: 13th July 2009
Mr OUMAR Doungous who received an BES Overseas Bursary grant in 2007 has recently benn awarded a research fellowship from CIMO (Centre for International Mobility) to spend 8 months (from November 1st, 2009 till June 30, 2010) in Finland.
Oumar kindly dropped us an email to let us know saying "I sincerely appreciate the support from the BES. I feel that my overseas bursary influenced me receiving the CIMO research fellowship"
Posted: 13th July 2009
The Chelsea Group of Children Special Schools received a BES Field equipment Grant is 2009 and wrote to say:
"Thank you for our equipment grant which has been very useful in developing our nature based curriculum project for special needs primary students at The Chelsea Group of Children Special Schools. I thought you might be interested in sharing some of the outcomes of the project with BES members interested in ecological education.
We have a 'dokuwiki' avalable at www.natureofexperience.com and have loaded a case study available on the DCSF WhatWorksWell site (available by clicking here.)
In September 29th 2009 we will be running a training day for primary teachers-if you have any members that you think this will be of interest to please forward the details."
