by Louise Gathercole | May 5, 2025 | Blog
Catherine spent her six month internship working with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Catherine had the challenge of pulling together data from multiple different places to create a database and a map of the different species of elm and elm cultivars in...
by Louise Gathercole | May 5, 2025 | Blog
Jack spent his six months with the Centre for Forest Protection working with one of our PhD students, Fritha, and social scientists at Forest Research and the University of St Andrews. He was looking at the cultural and social connections between people and tree...
by Louise Gathercole | Apr 29, 2025 | Blog
The successful applicant will play a central role as a forest ecologist in a new two-year CFP project entitled SUPPoRT: SUstainable Plant Provenancing for Resilient Trees. This project aims to improve tree seed collection choices and planting decisions guided by an...
by Louise Gathercole | Mar 20, 2025 | News
Kew researchers, Dr Laura Kelly and Dr Mohammad Vatanparast from our ash pangenome project recently organised a fascinating international online conference for fellow researchers working on ash tree genomics. They presented their own work on developing an ash...
by Louise Gathercole | Mar 12, 2025 | Blog
A Hands-On Learning Experience As part of the Centre for Forest Protection internship, which provides hands-on experience in research, the interns explored the cutting-edge techniques used at Wakehurst to preserve plant species for future generations. They learned...
