Ronald Guthrie, DPhil in Environmental Research (2016) Life on Earth has been punctuated sporadically by mass extinctions. Evidence of these events are preserved in the rock record. A change in the environment can result in a sudden and widespread decrease in biodiversity, increasing extinction levels above the background rate, leading to a mass extinction.… Continue reading

How many times have you explained your research to someone not in your field? Had to simplify complex concepts and paradigms? Do you enjoy it? This year the MCR is introducing a new opportunity for students to write about their work for a general audience, in the form of an research journal called Ex Aula: Research… Continue reading