Joanna Bagniewska (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
Speaker: Joanna Bagniewska (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
Workshop: Science Communication
Time: Friday, 3rd of July 2015, 15:00
Venue: Biotechnology Summer School 2015, Kadyny Folwark Hotel&SPA
Category: Invited lectures during Biotechnology Summer School
Joanna Bagniewska, biographical note
Dr Joanna Bagniewska is a zoologist specializing in behavioral ecology and invasive species research. She obtained her MSc and doctorate from Oxford University’s Zoology Department. Thus far she conducted research in five countries and visited over 40, having studied foxes and jackals in South Africa, wombats and wallabies in Australia, mole-rats in the USA and mink and bees in the UK. Currently she works as a teaching fellow for the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading.
Joanna is passionate about science communication and is constantly engaged in a number of outreach activities. In 2014 she won FameLab Poland, a science communication competition for researchers, and went on to receive the Alumni Award in the international finals of the event. For the last two years she has co-organised the popular science conference “Science. Polish Perspectives”; more recently she has taken part in endeavours such as the theatrical Science Slam, science stand-up comedy for Bright Club Oxford and Museums Show Off, and the school-oriented I’m a Scientist – Get me out of here! She also described her research during a talk at TEDxWarsaw. Joanna regularly writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and Focus, and runs a blog on INNPoland.pl. In her free time (or what is left of it!) she acts as the principal ambassador for Oxford in The Kings Foundation, a mentoring scheme for university applicants.