Following a successful trial run looking at Social Media in Biological Recording last month (linked to the theme of our soon-to-be-published summer newsletter), we will be running an online discussion on different aspects of skills and training, via our Google Group, from 12.00 till around 20.00 on August 7^th. You might be interested in participating in parts of it but the benefits of presenting the event in this way is that it’s possible to pose questions or share information in relation to individual points, well after the event has concluded and all the information will be permanently available.

 

The upcoming discussion is one that is likely to have wide appeal  and Sue Townsend and Richard Burkmar (FSC), Sarah Whild (MMU), Sally Hayns (CIEEM) and Craig MacAdam (Buglife) have all kindly agreed to fill the interviewee role for different segments of the discussion.

 

This sort of event, which can potentially reach and be of lasting benefit to a very wide audience, is something that the  Forum is likely to organise in collaboration with others in future, covering a range of topics on a regular basis.

 

For the August session, any further news or details may be found via our website, the above groups or under #SkillsTalk in Twitter.