Teaching, mentoring, and scientific outreach are some of my favourite parts of academia. An area I have been particularly active in is LGBT+ inclusion and visibility in STEM. Some highlights of events and organisations I have participated in are below. Full details of my teaching and outreach can be found on my CV.
BES LGBT+ Peer Mentor
Along with Lewis Bartlett, I serve as a peer mentor for the new LGBT+ Mentoring Scheme with the British Ecological Society. For more information or to sign up click here
LGBTSteminar 2019
Contributed talk. Nutrition supplementation drives parasite community dynamics in wild wood mice.
Pride in STEM Out Thinkers Event, Edinburgh. “Amy Sweeny, a graduate researcher at the University of Edinburgh, who will talk about the role of nutrition in disease ecology of wild wood mice”