Conservation and Restoration of Resilient Ecosystems

Dr Freya St John is a conservation scientist interested in understanding the links between human behaviour, well-being and conservation.

Professor John Healey is a forest ecologist working to achieve the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of forest resources.

I am a ‘hands on’ restoration ecologist. My interests lie in the way people and nature interact to deliver lasting positive change for both. 

Alec is a marine ecologist interested in conservation, sustainable use and restoration, with a focus on sharks & rays, historical ecology, and fisheries

Dr Leejiah Dorward is an interdisciplinary conservation scientist with broad interests in how we can apply social science methods to improve our understanding of how social and ecological systems interact.

Dr Alex Sutton is a behavioural and population ecologist interested in understanding how individuals respond to environmental change and how these responses scale up to influence populations and communities.

Dr Laura Grange is a benthic marine ecologist with a specialism in the Polar Regions whose primary research interests focus on evaluating seafloor ecosystem responses to climate change in the Southern and Arctic Oceans.  

I am Joseph Roy, an ESRC-WGSS PhD student in eco-psychology, studying how natural soundscapes, especially birds, influence human well-being. Using an interdisciplinary approach combining multiple research domains, I explore nature’s effects on people and apply the insights to human wellbeing and conservation.

Dr Craig Robertson is a benthic ecologist specialising in the macrofaunal communities and has a keen interest in developing functional ecology approaches in marine habitats, particularly in deep-sea habitats.

Dr Marielle Smith is an ecosystem ecologist who combines field-based and remote sensing observations across scales to understand forest responses to land-use and climate change-related drivers.

Neal Hockley is a social scientist interested in the governance and economics of land, including community management institutions, land rights and the socio-economic impacts of biodiversity conservation and forest management.

Dr Harriet Ibett is a conservation scientist who focuses on understanding peoples compliance with rules which protect biodiversity.

Claire Carrington is a marine ecologist currently researching the behavioural responses of coastal seabirds to meteorological variability.

Dr Ewa Krzyszczyk is a marine zoologist interested in behaviour and conservation of marine mammals, fish, and a variety of marine ecosystems.

Dr Katrien Van is a marine geologist with expertise in evaluating seabed integrity, which impacts marine ecosystems.

Dr Eleanor Warren-Thomas is an inter-disciplinary scientist using tools from ecology, economics and land systems science to support the conservation and restoration of forests and biodiversity.

Dr Farnon Ellwood is a community ecologist specialising in the development of theoretical frameworks that can be used to conserve tropical biodiversity by informing sustainable management practices.

Deanna Groom is a maritime archaeologist specialising in the development of maritime historic environment inventories (e.g. national and regional sites and monuments records) for coastal and underwater heritage sites. Particular research interests relate to the impact of climate change on the ecology of historic shipwreck sites.

Gareth is a marine ecologist specialising in coral reef ecology. His work focuses on identifying the natural and human drivers of coral reef community structure and function across scales and taxa.

Dr. Peter M. Haswell is a wildlife biologist working to conserve, restore, and understand biodiversity and ecological processes. Species interactions, human-wildlife coexistence, carnivores, research methods, and environmental ethics present key interests.

Dr Svenja Tidau is a global change biologist interested in how natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment affect (marine) animals in their behaviour, development, and physiology.  

Dr Tyler Hallman is a wildlife ecologist interested in modelling the spatial and temporal effects of anthropogenic environmental change on wildlife, particularly using remotely sensed and community science data. 

Dr Winnie Courtene-Jones is a global change biologist and plastic pollution expert whose research focuses on how anthropogenic stressors affect organisms and the environment.

Seumas is an environmental anthropologist currently researching woodland diversification, and the use of autonomous drones to aid woodland management.

Richard is a behavioural biologist investigating how animals orient, navigate and remember locations in space from small scale local movements to continental scale migration.

Dr Nathalie Fenner is a biogeochemist researching peatland ecosystems and their responses to environmental change, with a particular interest in carbon cycling.

Simon studies biodiversity across diverse biomes and assesses linkages to ecosystem function, environmental and human health.

Lauren is an ornithologist investigating how oceanographic variability effects Manx shearwater foraging behaviour and diet.

Amelia is a marine ornithologist currently researching the diet of diving seabirds using DNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis.

Lorna is an interdisciplinary doctoral researcher looking at how we determine when a marine system has reached a 'good' environmental state.

Charlie Gregory is an interdisciplinary researcher studying the consequences of extreme, rapid population decline within fish populations. 

Abi is a wetland scientist currently researching how wetlands can be used to mitigate the effects of anthropogenic pollution.

Nisabhat Tonwoot is a third year PhD student on the project " The opportunities of Forest Management Certification in Thailand".

Patrick is examining how the Zanzibar red colobus may show behavioural flexibility in natal dispersal, feeding ecology and territoriality in response to the changing risks and resources available across a gradient of anthropogenic disturbance.

 Working to quantify the extent of plastic pollution and identify its potential sources in soils.

Dr James Waggitt’s is a Marine Ecologist focusing on biophysical interactions and understanding the abundance and distribution of marine top predators.