A successful career in a scientific lab environment needs leadership and management skills as well as research skills. To get the best from people, team leaders need to be able to form teams, provide ...

The Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming may be best known for Mount Rushmore and the town of Deadwood, but in this book they feature as one of the few, and somewhat isolated, territories left for ...

No formal qualification in biology is required for our affiliate grade, all you need is a passion for the life sciences and a desire to get involved with the biological community. Biology occupies a ...

Fire is a major factor in the dynamics of many ecosystems. Its incidence, regularity and intensity are influential in determining the biotic components and their adaptations, as well as in ...

How would you describe your role at the RSB and what you do? Within the education policy team, I focus on curricula and supporting the Society’s Curriculum Committee. Their main purpose is to ensure ...

Online delivery is becoming an increasing focus of university undergraduate education, and distance-enrolled student numbers are growing worldwide. In addition, there is a proliferation of free ...

The Biologist looks at how a series of DEFRA-sponsored studentships are helping to build resilience and capacity in the UK plant health sector This year the RSB is again partnering with DEFRA to offer ...

Developmental biologist Dr Alison Woollard tells Tom Ireland about her Royal Institution Lectures, and how cells know what to do Dr Alison Woollard FSB is a dean and lecturer in genetics at the ...

The resources are aimed at post-16 students taking biology (or related subjects) to A level, Scottish Higher or similar level. These will also be of use to first year undergraduates studying biology.

The Royal Society of Biology (RSB) has a long-established Animal Licence Holder (ALH) Accreditation Board. The main purpose of which is to provide accreditation to approved UK modular training courses ...

The majority of my research is focused on how and why the bacteria Streptomyces produce useful molecules such as antibiotics. My passion has always been Streptomyces bacteria, since I first came ...

Professor Petra Oyston FRSB explains the unique projects and working life at the UK's Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) I am exceptionally proud to work at Dstl. The Dstl site near ...