Dr Jo Badge

I'm leaving my post at the University of Leicester, so won't be using this account to support undergraduate students from Biological Sciences after that date. - Dr Jo Badge

Thanks for all your help, Dr Badge. May you find much happiness your new teaching career! :) I can certainly see you being a really supportive primary school teacher. - Zainab Chaudhary

‘Becoming a Biologist: Degrees and Careers in Biology’ has information about different types of degree and alternatives to degrees, qualifications you will need for further study, skills you gain from studying biology, and advice about careers you could do after a biology degree. - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

"Article abstracts typically say little about what the researcher has discovered or what the key findings are, what they are arguing as a ‘bottom line’, or what key ‘take-away points’ they want readers to remember. Here we present a simple ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts." - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

The Department of Health and Health Protection Agency run a "live" health emergency planning exercise each year within Strategic Health Authority regions in England. Exercise Greystoke aims to test the ability of the East Midlands emergency services and NHS organisations to respond to a mass casulaty exercise. This is the region's largest "live" emergency planning exercise to date, and they are recruiting volunteers that would benefit from this experience and play as "casualties" in the live element of the exercise, which will take place on the campus of the University of Loughborough on Tuesday 5 July 2011, i.e. after the end of the Semester for those in Phase One. Please find attached a summary with details of how to register. - Dr Jo Badge

really great critical analysis of the recent report from WHO on mobile phones and cancer. - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

Like a one-man tribute band, Steve Jones plays Darwin's greatest hits. Unlike most tribute bands, he delivers a surer performance than the original. He is a more natural raconteur than Darwin and he knows a great deal more about Darwinian descent with modification - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

some new locations this year, including the church shown above - directions and information on the PDF file attached. Exams take palce all over the university, so you may not have been to some of these places before, make sure you know where they are. - Dr Jo Badge

The official timings state that Covenant Life Church is 10-15 mins from main campus, but I'd say more like 20 from the "science" end of the site - Dr Chris Willmott

“Making it up as you go along” may seem an odd title for a careers talk, particularly since Stuart Johnson [BSc(Hons) Biological Science 1995] was acting head of the University’s Careers Service at the time of the presentation. As he points out, however, the choice of title reflects both the route to his current role and the fact that not all undergraduates have a clear career path in mind whilst they are doing their degree. In these increasingly hostile times, however, there are plenty of things you can be doing to enhance your employability, even if you haven’t yet pinned down an exact job to aim towards. - Dr Jo Badge

Some really good tips there. - Roisin Thomas

I know you've all a little while before you need to start looking for jobs, but it's interesting to see what experience and qualifications you might need for great looking jobs like this! No harm in getting prepared :-) - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

I just read this. This sounds like such an incredible job, I just wish it was something I could apply for now :/. - Jaspreet Seehra

some great new help pages from ITS on using Blackboard and Turnitin from a student point of view. - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010... some great advice here on keeping your writing free of 'spare' words. Great if you are over a word count and need to edit down. - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

I already have these. They come with a nice little guide too. My daughter has arranged them all in pairs on the fridge. She thinks we could use them to play snap. - Roisin Thomas

Finding out how to get a set of magnets is almost as hard as cracking the code - I've watched all th ptogrammes with interest as would love a set. - Jacqueline Bortoft

Student Development is changing it's name - vote now and have your say on what it should be. It's YOUR service! - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet