Cartwheels and carpets

Dr Shepherd and Dr Mabey, University of Southampton, July 2023.

I love this pic – and love what it represents! Two stellar scientists and people marking the end of the huge challenge and journey that is a PhD. [cue lots of celebratory cartwheels]

Massive congratulations, Harry and Abbie, on graduating from your PhDs! Monumental achievement – and such a profound privilege for me to be involved in your journeys.

And on the (red) carpet front, we recently welcomed Jonathan Sutton to our group as a new PhD student.

Co-supervised by Vincent Jansen at Royal Holloway, Jonathan is a theoretical ecologist building models of community dynamics responding to invasion, other global change factors and evolutionary effects.

Jonathan has very much hit the ground running. We look forward to seeing (more!) of what he’ll get up to in the next few years.

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