September 2026
Delivered a full day of workshops for emerging leaders and teachers in Open Science as part of the instructor training track at the LMU, Munich Open Science Summer School. Materials can be found here.
August 2026
I was on the opening panel of the Beth Chatto Symposium Connections Through Time discussing climate change impacts on plants. Photo credit: Beth Chatto Gardens and @julieskeltonphoto
May 2026
Co-delivered a workshop “In Pursuit of Citational Justice: Introduction to the Citation Justice Toolkit” at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) 2026 online meeting.
2025
November 2025
Co-delivered training workshop with Dr Flavio Azevedo on equitable Big-Team Science at University of Amsterdam.
Graduated from an 8-week course on Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE)!
July 2025
I became a Dr of plants! You can read my thesis “Trait-based methods in (plant) ecology: theory and practice” here. Photo credit: Mariam Essafri.
January 2025
Gave a webinar hosted by the Ecological Continuity Trust about the RainDrop experimental site providing an overview of the main research findings to date.
2024
November 2024
I passed my PhD viva! Photo credit: Brooke Johnson
August 2024
Panelist on the “First steps in academia” event at the 2024 Botanical University Challenge Student Festival. Photo credit: Botanical University Challenge 2024.
March 2024
Invited speaker for Neurodiversity in STEM event hosted by Neurodiversity at Oxford. Title of my talk: “Roots, blooms and STEMs: a neurodivergent plant scientist’s academic journey”.
2023
March 2023
Plant detectives outreach activity with South London Botanical Institute (SLBI) and secondary school students at West Norwood Cemetery. Photo credit: Sarah Webley/SLBI
February 2023
I gave a KMIS Lecture at Kew Gardens on Plants and people: finding the roots of community across the tree of life
2022
November
Interviewed on ITV regional news about my research on drought impacts on grasslands
March
Guest on PhD Rhapsody podcast discussing my grassland research, bananas, diveristy and being neurodivergent in academia.
February
Featured researcher in Kurt Jackson’s art exhibition on Biodiversity in Oxford’s Natural History Museum
2021
November
Featured in Oxford’s Student Spotlight
Virtual talk on grasslands at the South London Botanical Institute
September
Guest on the Conservation Optimism Good Natured Podcast
Short video with Andy Hector and I about the importance studying grasslands during the era of climate breakdown
June
The BIPOC STEM Network won an award for Best Initiative in the Oxford University MPLS Division EDI 2021 Awards
I made a short video about the importance of wildflowers #30DaysWild challenge by The Wildlife Trusts
May
I gave a webinar to WWF UK staff about the importance of decolonising STEM and education.
April
Virtual Behaviour Ecology and Evolution (BEE) Conference I co-organised took place on 7-8th April
March
Fireside chat with Joe Buck where we discuss many topics from my PhD, Open Science and a few of my side projects
February
I gave a talk at the Oxford Conservation Society: Plants, People and Place: A Conversation about Conservation
January
New Oxford Sparks video out of my supervisors and I talking about the research taking place at RainDrop, Wytham Woods, Oxford.
I became a member of the steering group and divisional representative for Reproducible Research Oxford (RRox)
