Webinars

This isn’t the most interesting of blog posts, but I just wanted to highlight how useful I’ve found webinars this last year, and while the below list will be of most use to myself, it might be of interest to others too. Like many people over the covid-19 lockdowns, I’ve attended lots of online webinars, most of which were free and quite a few have been uploaded to platforms such as YouTube. Where these uploads exist in a publicly accessible form I have linked to these videos . It’s worth noting that there are many webinars I did not attend, and many organisations, like the Field Studies Council, have a great deal of other webinars uploaded to YouTube that look fantastic – well worth a look through them. Webinars have been a good way to learn new things, ask experts questions and ‘meet’ new people, and although computer overload really is a thing right now, without these events I don’t know how I would have coped with being stuck indoors all the time, especially over the winter months.

I’ll try to keep this list up-to-date, and I’ve also listed events that I am booked in to attend in the future, so if you see any that interest you do Google for tickets!

Date	Title	Organiser
14 March 2020	BTS Lectures (in person)	British Tarantula Society
04 June 2020	Bringing the Barberry Carpet Back from the Brink	Field Studies Council
18 June 2020	Introduction to Identifying Ladybird Larvae	Field Studies Council
24 June 2020	On the Hunt for the Rugged Oil Beetle in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds	Field Studies Council
25 June 2020	Get inVOLEd – A Community Working to Bring Back Water Voles	Field Studies Council
01 July 2020	Dozy Dormice in Decline	Field Studies Council
09 July 2020	Introduction to Identifying Ladybirds	Field Studies Council
03 Aug 2020	The Blue Ground Beetle-The real beast of Dartmoor	Dartmoor Connections
10 Sep 2020	Chats about Bats: Marvellous Moths	Devon Wildlife Trust
21 Sep 2020	Introduction to Carrion Beetles	Natural History Live
30 Sep 2020	Introduction to Identifying Fungi	Natural History Live
10 Oct 2020	Conserving the Grey Long-eared Bat	Natural History Live
22 Oct 2020	Free Online Talk: Light Pollution and Biodiversity	Clifton Climate Action
16 Nov 2020	Re-Wilding and Species Re-Introductions – Peter Cooper	UWE WES
17 Nov 2020	A Diary of a Wildlife Photographer – Jack Perks	UWE WES
24 Nov 2020	Surveying for Marine Mammals – Vanessa Lloyd	UWE WES
8 Dec 2020	Dormouse Ecology – Sarah Dale	UWE WES
16 Dec 2020	Woodland bat ringing studies – Dr Dani Linton	Avon & Wiltshire Bat Groups
13 Jan 2021	The Wonder of Bats with Shirley Thompson	Bat Conservation Trust
27 Jan 2021	Heart of the Forest – In search of the Heart Moth	Butterfly Conservation
02 Feb 2021	Micro-moth field signs	Tanyptera Trust
09 Feb 2021	Citizen Science and Conservation: what does it add, who is taking part and who are we failing to reach?	Zoological Society of London
10 Feb 2021	Scottish birds and wildlife talk	Bristol Naturalists’ Society
12 Feb 2021	Identification of Stonefly Larvae – Craig Macadam	Buglife
16 Feb 2021	Learn to Sketch owls	Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
16 Feb 2021	Impacts of temporary habitat fragmentation on bats: designing effective mitigation strategies to maintain landscape connectivity	Jack Hooker/Bat conservation research lab
17 Feb 2021	Introduction to Spider identification with Chris Cathrine Part 1 Part 2	Buglife
18 Feb 2021	Introduction to Beetles with Ashleigh Whiffin	Buglife
18 Feb 2021	The Red List for bats in England	Avon & Wiltshire Bat Groups
23 Feb 2021	How light pollution affects moths (NYM Dark Skies Festival)	NYM Dark Skies Festival
24 Feb 2021	Moth Trap Intruders: Beetles attracted to light -Dan Asaw	Field Studies Council
03 March 2021	Rockingham Forest Chequered Skipper Research Update with Jamie Wildman	Back from the Brink
04 & 05 March 2021	Student Futures & Research Conference	British Ecological Society and Linnean Society
14 March	British Tarantula Society Online Lectures	British Tarantula Society
18 March 2021	Urban Foxes by Dawn Scott	London Natural History Society
19 March 2021	Mining bees	Tanyptera Trust
24 March 2021	Introduction to the Wood White Butterfly	Butterfly Conservation
01 April 2021	Bats in Churches by Claire Boothby	London Natural History Society
24 April 2021	Reptile Surveys – John Baker	Back from the Brink
08 May 2021	Illustrating the Chequered Skipper with Virtual Workshop Lizzie Harper	Back from the Brink
28 May 2021	Species & ecological processes; taxonomy & traits in the workings of nature	British Ecological Society – Aquatic Ecology Group
28 June 2021	The species we lost – natural history of the UK Jun 28	Conservation Chat UK