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

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

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences
Dr Christine Howard

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Imperilled species modelling for conservation planning
Dr Tom Mason

​Postdoctoral Research Associate

Anthropogenic drivers of species range loss 
Courtney Neal

​Research Assistant

The ecological impacts of shale gas extraction
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Alke Voskamp

Research Associate

Impacts of climate change on species extinction risk
Hagen O'Neill

PhD Student

Conservation management, ecology, animal behaviour and ecotourism
Teegan Docherty

PhD Student

Impacts of fire on animal assemblages
Michelle Gibson

PhD Student

 Impacts of extreme weather events on bird species distributions
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
Maire 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
Isabel Fletcher

MSc Student

The role of soil biota in facilitating plant invasions
Lucy Gardner

MSc Student

Effects of climate change on species extinction responses
Melissa Dawson

MSc Student

Impacts of fire management practises on avian and invertebrate communities
Harriet Newhouse

MSc Student

Identifying the drivers of global ecotourism

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Recent Alumni
Dr David J., Baker (Monash University)
Dr Miranda Davis (University of Connecticut)
Dr Georgina Palmer (University of York)
Dr Naiara O'Mahony

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