RSK Wilding is an exciting new venture on a mission to use rewilding as a means of offsetting our clients’ carbon and biodiversity impacts whilst also having other environmental and social benefits. RSK Wilding is a multidisciplinary team bringing together an unrivalled breadth of expertise in biodiversity, land management and climate science from across the RSK group of businesses to help leave a lasting legacy for UK biodiversity, the environment and the climate.Rewilding isn’t just for conservationists. We aim to make rewilding an option for businesses, big or small, to offset their carbon emissions and ecological impacts while helping to reverse decades of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and climate impacts.In partnership with clients, landowners and other stakeholders, RSK Wilding will restore some of the UK’s landscape to the natural, biodiverse and wild place it used to be, connecting existing protected areas. By doing this, we will be playing our part in leaving a better legacy for future generations…

• Taught Modules: Advanced Research Skills, Statistics, Taxonomy, Evolution, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Ecology and Biological Control of insects.• Research Project: Supplementing natural pollination in commercial sweet cherry crops: The impact of the solitary bee Osmia bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae)• Curation: I was part of a small team of volunteers tasked with spearheading the curation of the Harper Adams insect collection. Duties included recording, cleaning, identification down to species level and constructing an on-line database to be used as a resource for current and future students.• Entomology Blog: I was the editor for the Harper Adams MSc entomology blog ‘Mastering Entomology’, a website that provides information for potential future students along with posts on areas of Entomology that we enjoy, one of which has been published in the Royal Entomology Societies ‘Antenna’ Journal.• Entomology Outreach: I volunteered for many outreach events over the course of 2015 including the Kinver edge bioblitz and the Dorothy Clive Gardens Insect Event. The purpose of these were to pass on insect knowledge to all members of the public • Skills developed: I have developed a greater knowledge of insect biology and taxonomy along with enhanced research skills and laboratory experience, improved scientific writing ability and becoming proficient in the statistical programme ‘R’.