Previously PhD student Jane Pierce’s research has identified the most likely areas of musculoskeletal disorders among beekeepers, now she reports on a recently-developed, free resource which provides an assessment of common beekeeping tasks with the goal of lowering injury risk.

Honey bees challenge many of the ideas we have about ageing (imagine doing the most physically demanding work of your life at the very end, or your mother naturally living more than 30 times as long as you…). Science writer Dave Black takes a look at what we know about our honey bees’ ageing process.

Jane Pierce wants to help beekeepers improve their physical health, perhaps their mental health too, and with it their financial wellbeing..