TEACHING

Members of the group really enjoy contributing to all levels of teaching in the Department. Nick and Martin lecture on several of the taught courses, and in particular Martin is unit director for the Year 3 optional unit Staying Alive: the Sensory and Behavioural Biology of Survival

First Year - Level 1

In the First Year, both Martin and Nick teach a number of lectures on a diverse range of topics, including crustaceans and ethics and philosophy in biology. Nick has previously introduced Sensory Biology as part of the BIOL12000 Life Processes Course.

Second Year - Level 2

Nick teaches vision sciences on the Neuroethology optional unit. This is part of our coordinated progression in sensory biology from Year 1 through to Year 3; from learning fundamental principles of neurophysiology through to cutting-edge research in Visual Ecology. 

Third Year - Level 3

In the third yea,r we teach a variety of different things. Martin is the Unit Director for one of our third-year option units - Staying Alive: the Sensory and Behavioural Biology of Survival.  Martin and Nick also supervise several L3 projects working in the lab. Something we are particularly proud of are the number of papers we get published from these projects. We also supervise L3 literature reviews.

Every year Martin and Nick offer a variety of MSci projects. From working on polarization vision in crustaceans, to investigating animal colouration or measuring the effects of anthropogenic light pollution, we use a range of different techniques including microscopy, image processing and controlled lab based behavioural experiments.