Postgraduate students will be exhibiting their work in a celebration of research across the University of Lincoln, as it hosts its seventh Annual Postgraduate Student Conference. The conference, which will showcase discoveries being made, applied and critiqued by current postgraduate…
Lincoln blue tits provide insight into climate change
Researchers believe that the size of birds’ nests created in response to changing weather patterns may be partly to blame for reproductive failures over the last two years. An article in the April edition of The Biologist, the Society of…
Growing success for ‘green’ compost
Research into environmentally friendly, peat-free compost is proving successful. A joint project between the University of Lincoln and Bettaland nursery in Spalding, Lincolnshire, has been looking at peat alternatives following a Government announcement that all garden centres and DIY stores…
Pet Rabbits Wanted for Lincoln Animal Welfare Research
Researchers at the University of Lincoln’s Riseholme campus are appealing for rabbit owners to lend their pets for a study into pet rabbit welfare. “Behaviours such as normal hopping, stretching and rearing may require more space for expression than is…