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Dr Joanna Bagniewska is a zoologist and science communicator. She completed her undergraduate degree at Jacobs University Bremen and Rice University in Houston, and obtained her MSc and doctorate from the University of Oxford's zoology department. After a stint at a start-up company, where she trained bees to detect illegal substances, Joanna went on to lecture at Nottingham Trent University, the University of Reading and Brunel University of London; she also spent six years working as a Communications and Public Engagement Officer at Oxford University’s Department of Paediatrics, and has been a science communication coach for the British Council. Her academic interests include conservation biology, behavioural ecology and the intersection of technology and zoology. Joanna has worked on a range of species, ranging from wombats and wallabies to mole-rats and jackals. She is now based at works at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education as Co-Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques; she is a Departmental Lecturer in Environmental Science and in the Graduate School. Her first popular science book, The Modern Bestiary, was published in 2022; she is also the co-author of The Communicating Scientist, and a contributor to the children's book Life: the Wild Wonders of Biodiversity.
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