Category Archives: PhD research

PhD update: An apple by any other name…

The question at the heart of my PhD is a very practical one: ‘How can we use the appearance of apples as an authenticity tool for industrial purposes?’

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Can the Iberian Floristic Diversity Withstand Near-Future Climate Change?

In the lastest paper from Marshall Heap’s thesis we discuss the impact of near-future climate change on plant species in the Iberian peninsular (Spain and Portugal).  3267 MAXENT environmental niche models (ENMs) at 1-km spatial resolution for known Iberian plant … Continue reading

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L’Oreal Scholar studies DNA barcodes of arid land flora

I am a visiting (ad hoc) research student at the University of Reading; my research is on the evaluation and exploration of the biodiversity of arid-land Fabaceae in Nigeria funded by the Competitive Agricultural Research Grant Scheme – CARGS project … Continue reading

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How to write your science: a dissertation is a story

This is the season in the academic year when I spend much of my time reading and commenting on MSc dissertations and draft PhDs.  Each year I remind my students that a thesis is like a novel, you need to … Continue reading

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