Episode 08 | Talking Teaching & Scholarship Dr Nicholas Midgley, Senior Lecturer in the School of Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences

In this episode, Kathy talks to Dr Nicholas Midgley about teaching and scholarship. Nick is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography with just over 20 years at NTU.Nick’s work has taken him from Svalbard in the Northern Hemisphere to the Falklands in the Southern Hemisphere, he talks passionately about the importance of taking his students out of the classroom and into the field where they can experience and research why certain environmental effects such as flooding in Spain happen.He also tells us why a lobster pot tag is used as a way to determine the impact of plastics in our oceans.