Group Members (click names or photos to view personal pages)
Staff
Dr Philip Stephens

Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of Biosciences
Dr Wayne Dawson

Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences
Post-docs
Dr Christine Howard

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Imperilled species modelling for conservation planning
Post-grads
Teegan Docherty

PhD Student

Impacts of fire on animal assemblages
Stuart Brooker

PhD Student

The avian dawn chorus across the UK: using new technology to study breeding bird song
Courtney Shuert

PhD Student

Quantifying individual variation in fine scale time and energy trade-offs in breeding grey seals. How do differing behavioural types solve these trade-offs?
Nicolas Fuentes-Allende

PhD Student

Impacts of burning regimes on South African ungulates
Máire Kirkland

PhD student

Nature-based tourism: current drivers and future potential in a changing world
Dominic Harmer

PhD Student

The decline of saltmarsh breeding redshank, Tringa totanus, in north-west England: potential impacts of livestock, wildfowl and flooding on habitat suitability
Mark Titley

PhD Student

Planning for future climate and land use change in the protection of global avian and mammalian biodiversity
Samantha Mason

PhD Student

Using a citizen science led camera-trapping approach to study distribution and behaviour of UK mammals
 Kieran Lawrence

PhD Student

The effects of climate change on migratory birds
Jonathan Rees

PhD Student

Automating image analysis of camera trap data
Sian Green

PhD Student

Citizen Scientist Engagement in Mammal Monitoring through MammalWeb
Emily Baker

​PhD Student

The validation of ecological citizen science data
Marie Dale

PhD Student

​Biofouling on marine vessels and the translocation of invasive species
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Katy Ivison

PhD Student

How will climate change and natural enemies affect non-native plant invasion risk in Arctic Norway?
David Jarrett

PhD Student

Climate change and Arctic wildlife: consequences for human-wildlife interactions & ecosystem services
Eilidh Smith

PhD Student

Impacts of disturbance on red deer
Peter Stewart

PhD Student

How do invasive species impact African wild mammals?
Holly Appleby

Research Masters Student

The drivers of wildlife-based tourism in Africa and The UK
Rachel Dobson

Integrated Masters (MBiol) Student

Assessing avian population vulnerability to extinction.
David Masters
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Integrated Masters (MBiol) Student

Wildlife-based tourism in the marine ​world
Bálint Ternyik

Integrated Masters (MBiol) Student

Investigating the size and health of Hungarian mammal populations using MammalWeb
Erin Wright

Integrated Masters (MBiol) Student

The evolution of territoriality in birds
Oisín Brennan

​Masters of Biology and Physics Joint Hons MSci Student

Spatial patterns in bird song 
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Past group members