Dr Candice Owen is the Course Leader of and a Senior Lecturer in Zoology in the Faculty of Science, Business and Enterprise at the University of Chester, UK. In this role, she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students, supervises the research of postgraduate students and does her own research. She also oversees the whole Zoology course across all undergraduate years. Dr Owen has been teaching for eight years since the completion of a Postdoctoral Fellowship, has secured external funding and has published in academic press.