Supermarket herbs are grown in 100% peat, a finite resource. So, during her PhD at Royal Holloway, Lauren Edwards worked to find sustainable alternatives to peat for growing plants.
We talk about the secret underground web that allows plants to communicate, think up some anti-peat activism and hear how some of Lauren's study plants mysteriously disappeared during fieldwork.
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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.