Welcome to the Conservation Ecology Research Group! We are a group of researchers based at Durham University, in Durham, United Kingdom. Our work ranges from the evolutionary ecology of individual behaviour to global biogeographic patterns, usually with an applied focus. We are principally interested in answering interesting questions about the world we live in but our work also impacts on international policy.

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RECENT NEWS

• Calling all prospective postdocs interested in joining CEG. Have a look at this fellowship scheme and please get in contact with us.

• Grevillea Trust funding is now available to support postgraduates studying for a Master's by Research.  Grants are worth £6K and are available to excellent students hoping to commence their research in October 2015.  Click here for further details.  The deadline is 9am, 06/02/15.
  

• Congratulations to Elizabeth Downes, Melissa Dawson, and Christine Howard for being awarded £400 travel bursaries for best posters at the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Research Away Day. 

• More PhD opportunities with the CEG on applied mammalian ecology.  Check projects here and get in touch with Phil Stephens for more information.  Some of these projects close to applicants on 09/01/15.

• The Behaviour Ecology and Evolution Research (BEER) Centre at Durham University, of which CEG is a part, is delighted to be hosting the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour’s Postgraduate Workshop and Easter Conference from 18th to 20th March 2015. Have a look at their website here or follow on twitter @asabeaster2015

 

• Congratulations to Emily Lake for being awarded the Norman Richardson Grant from Ustinov College. The award will help to fund her upcoming fieldwork in South Africa starting in January 2015. See here for more information on Emily’s project.
  
  
• We've got some exciting new PhD opportunities! See here for project details and info on funding and how to apply 

• Congratulations to Michelle Gibson for receiving a Ustinov College Travel Award. The award will help fund her trip to the British Ecological Society and Société Française d’Ecologie joint annual meeting this December in Lille, France where she will be presenting a poster on nomadic birds in Australia.

•  New paper by Tom Mason, Phil Stephens and Steve Willis,"Predicting potential responses to future climate in and alpine ungulate: interspecific interactions exceed climate effects" is on the cover of Global Change Biology
  
  
• New paper by Bethan Hindle, Shane Richards and Steve Willis, "Topographical variation reduces phenological mismatch between a butterfly and its nectar source" is now available online:  http://tinyurl.com/latluml

• You can order your copy of Ecological Statistics now! Expected publication is January 2015. Shane Richards has contributed Chapter 3 on "Likelihoods and Model Selection".  http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199672554.do

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