Author Archives: Isla Watton

Adriana Lowe (@adriana_lowe) is a PhD student at the University of Kent. She will be taking part in Soapbox Science Canterbury 2018 on 23rd June, giving a talk entitled “Life and death in the forest: studying the behaviour of wild chimpanzees”       SS: How … Continue reading →

Claire Stewart (@clairecology) is a PhD student in the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent. She will be taking part in Soapbox Science Canterbury 2018 on 23rd June, giving a talk entitled “Deciding what species to save”         … Continue reading →

Raysa went to school in Stockholm and after graduating top of her BSc degree in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry from Nottingham Trent University, she joined the University of Sussex for a PhD in Chemistry in 2014. Having recently submitted her … Continue reading →

Elizabeth is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Sussex. In her career she has travelled around the world, working in different fields of engineering. Elizabeth will be explaining her current research at Soapbox … Continue reading →

Onyx has spent significant amounts of time in three different Continents. Having grown up and studied in Nigeria up to GCSE level, and then came over to the UK for her A-levels and Undergraduate degree. She went on to pursue … Continue reading →

Charlotte studied for a Masters in Physics and Astronomy at The University of Sheffield, graduating in 2013 before getting a PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Warwick. This involved using Hubble Space Telescope images to study the galaxies of … Continue reading →

Having volunteered at Soapbox Science Brighton in 2017, Tochukwu is now taking part as a speaker! Currently in her third year of PhD study, Tochukwu’s research is focused on developing nanomaterial-based strategies for biomedical therapies. She will be speaking at … Continue reading →

Helena is part of the John Adams Institute for accelerator science within the particle physics group and the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, and has experienced scientific research around the world, training in McGill University (Canada) and before that at the … Continue reading →

After working at a zoo and studying Zoology, Gigi Hennessy is currently a working toward a PhD in Bee conservation in the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of Sussex. She is taking part in Soapbox Science … Continue reading →

I work at UCL/University of Bristol investigating the genes involved in the evolution of social behaviour in wasps. Wasps are the ideal organism for studying  social evolution as they display the full repertoire of social behaviour; from solitary wasps where … Continue reading →