Student Representative
Like many I join the cliché of loving insects from a young age, leading me to complete my undergraduate at Harper Adams University in Zoology with Entomology. While remaining enamoured by insects there I also gained an appreciation for British agriculture and its importance in food security. I began to focus on Coleoptera and completed my undergraduate thesis looking at the effect of water quality on riparian carabids.
After this I completed a range of jobs including an ectotherm keeper at Bristol Zoo until, unfulfilled with life I leapt at the chance to rejoin the academic world completing a Research Masters at the University of Bristol. There I analysed previously collected data from the Amazonia rainforest focusing on the taxonomic and functional changes of dung beetles after differing land uses and the 2015 El Niño event.
Since then, I have been lucky enough to start my dream PhD research focusing on the effects of regenerative agriculture on dung beetles in the UK, based in rural Devon at Rothamsted Research North Wyke joint with Lancaster University. Nowadays you’ll most likely find me sat in the middle of a field with gloved hands stuck in a pile of dung.
