{"id":3224,"date":"2020-02-20T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:39:53","slug":"birdgirl-mya-rose-craig-receives-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2020\/02\/20\/birdgirl-mya-rose-craig-receives-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Birdgirl&#8217; Mya-Rose Craig receives Bristol University honorary doctorate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/02\/110975500_hi060074944.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/02\/110975500_hi060074944.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/02\/110975500_hi060074944-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A teenage birdwatcher has urged students to &#8220;tackle the environmental crisis&#8221; as she received an honorary doctorate at the age of 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mya-Rose Craig, also known as Birdgirl, set up Black2Nature to help engage more children from minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) in conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She received the doctor of science degree from the University of Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The environmentalist posts on Twitter as BirdGirlUK and is thought to be the UK&#8217;s youngest recipient of the award.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bristol-51561747#\">More<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage birdwatcher has urged students to &#8220;tackle the environmental crisis&#8221; as she received an honorary doctorate at the age of 17. Mya-Rose Craig, also known as Birdgirl, set up Black2Nature to help engage more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-ethnicity","category-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}