Rachel Nichols studies how to improve wild bee diversity on farmland. In this podcast she recalls googling “how to do a PhD?” in her first week, the people and places that inspired her to study bees, and some unexpected events during her farm-based fieldwork.
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Beth Nicholls: Pollinators & Urban Growing

In this Brighton-based podcast, Veronica & Gigi take a break from studying bees to explore the strange worlds of other PhD students, finding out what they do and why. They report first-hand experiences of being a researcher, complete with misadventures, solidarity and topical issues. Supported by the Sussex Researcher Development Programme.