A video I made for the British Council.
FameLab tip – how to prepare a talk when you are not a native speaker?
Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Would you ban trophy hunting in Africa?
Oxford graduate zoologist Dr Joanna Bagniewska, a teaching fellow at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading, took an enraptured audience at the 2017 Sofia Science Festival through the debates on trophy hunting and conservation. Listen to the podcast with Bulgaria Now’s Lance Nelson and The Sofia Globe’s…
Can science save football? Boffins believe they can make the beautiful game more beautiful
An article by Peter Hughes in The Oxford Times AS 33,000 Oxford United fans packed the stands at Wembley this month, many were praying for victory. But a football-mad Oxford scientist has suggested that loving the beautiful game is more of a science than a religion. Science Oxford’s creative director…
Turning Brain Drain into Brain Circulation
My post for the Crastina Column For many years Poland has experienced human capital flight, or “brain drain”. But this process is slowly becoming balanced by ”returnees”. The networking and communication skills of young members of the Polish scientific diaspora has played a crucial role. Joanna Bagniewska, zoologist and science disseminator, explains how.
International Echoes of FameLab in Prague 2014
Last November I had the pleasure to go to Prague for a follow-up FameLab event: International Echoes of FameLab. It was a wonderful chance to hang out with the FameLabber community again, to talk science, drink beer and enjoy the city with all that it has to offer. A big thank you to…
Explosive stuff wins award for academic
WILDLIFE conservation lecturer Dr Joanna Bagniewska has won a top award in the international final of a science communication competition.
Learning from animals: Jacobs alumna talks at TEDxWarsaw
Article from Jacobs University. Can animals change the way we think? Can we learn anything from invasive species? How do we measure animal behavior in the wild? Jacobs alumna Dr. Joanna Bagniewska (Class of 2006) ventured to answer these questions at the recent TEDxWarsaw in March. Joanna’s talk entitled “Learning…
Winner of the Acorn Ecology Prize for Best Student Presentation announced
From Oxford University, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit 30 March, 2012 WildCRU’s DPhil student, Joanna Bagniewska, was awarded the Acorn Ecology Best Student Presentation Prize at the recent Mammal Society Conference. There were a number of great talks at the event but Joanna’s presentation on the diving patterns of semi-aquatic, shallow-diving,…