Press Releases and Exciting Stuff
After two years of plannig, it has often felt that everything abut this expedition has gone at the speed of a snail with a bad hangover....
Set In Stone
I believe it is well in order to carry on from the wave of optimism in which I finished my last blog. This expedition, the research, and...
Tough Decisions Taken
After the successes from the night of the Award Ceremony, it was clear that tough talks had to be made. We had some serious backing but...
All about the trip-and a shout out to our new sponsors-Craghoppers!
A source of ceaseless inspiration, captivating landscapes and raw adventure. “The land of many waters”: Guyana. Over the past two years,...
Scientific Exploration Society Award Ceremony
Three of our team were delighted to be invited to London to the awards ceremony in which the expedition was awarded £5000 by the SES...
What is the point of all this? Westernisation, disease and Guyana...
Westernisation- the social process of converting to the customs and practices of Western civilisation- is far from a novel development in...
Where we are at now... Education and innovation
We also decided if research was to be done this would be a great opportunity to educate students in Aberdeen and Guyana about the...
Fighting through failure
This month in the fight for funding we spent many, many hours on a very complex grant application for the medical research council, only...
The Quest for Funding begins...
So now our team is assembled we are ready to begin the exciting, if daunting process of applying for funding to make this trip happen. It...
How this all began
How the Aberdeen team got started, we are mostly medical students who were members of a student led society in Aberdeen called the...
