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Student project ideas
Britain is home to a wonderful variety of mammals, many of which are unfortunately threatened. Luckily for them, the UK is also home to many motivated students working hard to understand and conserve mammals.
Find more student research opportunities on our twitter account @MammSocStudents
Visit our student blog
Are you an undergraduate or masters student looking for an idea for your research project?
You can view our list of project ideas here.
If you are planning to carry out one of our suggested projects, please let us know here.
If you have another project idea you’d like support with, we’d be happy to help! Get in touch here.
Call outs for student support
From time to time we may have specific project’s we’d like student support with. These will be posted here.
There are no opportunities at present.
How you can share your research
Mammal Society offers a number of ways you can spread the word about your work whether through a paper or a blog.
Mammal Review
Mammal Review is the Mammal Society’s quarterly international scientific journal of mammal research and review studies, covering all aspects of mammalian biology and ecology. It is owned and published by Wiley and has an impact factor of 4.927. You can find the author guidelines here.
As of 2020 a new agreement between Wiley and Jisc means that if you are a UK-based researcher at a participating institution, you may now be able to publish open access in Mammal Review at no direct cost to you. Click here to see if you are eligible.
Mammal Communications
The Mammal Society’s online, open access journal is free and there is no publication charge. For students, it provides a great opportunity for anyone currently researching mammals to publish a short paper on their work. Research on any aspect of mammal biology is accepted, particularly on British and European mammals and we are particularly interested in papers evaluating current, or developing new, survey and monitoring techniques. All articles are peer reviewed prior to publication on the website. For more information on submitting a manuscript and to read published papers you can visit the Mammal Communications website here.
Student spotlight blogs
We love to hear about your research and we now have a dedicated area of our website showcasing students’ work on a number of mammal-related projects. If you’re a student working on UK mammals (although we’ll throw in a few exotic mammals here and there!) and want to share your research, please get in touch with our Education and Training Officer, here.
You can share your research any way you see fit, be it a blog post, video, presentation or any other creative ways you can think of to explain your research – find our guidance document here.