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

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Imperilled species modelling for conservation planning
Dr Tom Mason

​Postdoctoral Research Associate

Anthropogenic drivers of species range loss 
Post-grads
Teegan Docherty

PhD Student

Impacts of fire on animal assemblages
Claire Branston

PhD Student

The role of climate and habitat on the reproduction and population dynamics of insectivorous woodland birds
Pen-Yuan Hsing

PhD Student

Developing a wild mammal monitoring network in the UK
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
Oscar Dewhurst

Research Masters Student

Evaluating the utility of point and line transects in open and shrubby habitats, and using transects across complex terrain to estimate population sizes of threatened species
Holly Appleby

Research Masters Student

The drivers of wildlife-based tourism in Africa and The UK
Samuel Feaster

Integrated Masters (MBiol) Student

Identifying multiple plant invader syndromes: a global trait-based assessment
Past group members
David J., Baker (Monash University)
Miranda Davis (University of Connecticut)
Georgina Palmer (Ecological Consultancy)
Naiara O'Mahony (Chester Zoo)
Evalyne W. Muiruri
Alke Voskamp (Senckenberg Research Institute)
Hagen O'Neil (Institute of Technology, Sligo)
Michelle Gibson (University of Queensland)
Bethan Hindle (Sheffield University)
Jamie Alison (University of Liverpool)
Michael Harrap (University of Bristol)
Kasim Rafiq (Liverpool John Moores University)
Elizabeth Downes
Natalie Allum
David Whittle
Emily Lake
Harriet Newhouse
Lucy Gardner
​Isabel Fletcher
Melissa Dawson
Courtney Neal