Postgraduate supervision
Current PhD Students:
- Bea Kerry (EU & UoR) Pollinator-friendly food labelling schemes.
- Sirajum Munira (NERC Scenarios DTP) Using drone LIDAR technology to quantify hedgerow management, quality and configuration, and the impacts on farmland pollinator communities.
- Leila Nicholson (FoodBioSystems DTP) Increasing the value of silvoarable agroforestry using understory crops in the tree rows.
- Connor Russell (EU & UoR) Measuring the economic value of pollinators to European food systems.
- Harriet Gold (FoodBioSystems DTP) Optimizing UK landscapes for agroecosystem resilience.
- Joris Rockx, (UoR) Precision Apiculture: enhancing the health and effectiveness of managed honeybees for soft fruit production.
- Rosy Scholes (FoodBioSystems DTP) Integrating trees into arable systems to improve soil health & provide resilience to climate change.
- Ellen Knight (NERC Scenarios DTP) Does pollinator diversity moderate ecosystem function in agroforestry systems?
Completed PhD Students (since 2015):
- Hannah McGrath (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Huntapac) Designer field margins for multiple benefits to production.
- Alice Haughan (NERC QMEE CDT - ZSL) Predicting the impacts of multiple interacting drivers on a global biodiversity hotspot.
- Kelly Jowett (17³Ô¹Ï-Rothamsted Alliance) Modelling landscape quality and configuration effects on natural enemy communities and the provision of pest regulation services.
- Duncan Coston (Lawes Trust) Quantifying the impacts of the neonicotinoid restriction on oilseed rape pest control, pollination and productivity.
- Sam Leigh (BBSRC DTP - LIBERATION) Harnessing multiple benefits from novel crop rotations: increased yield, pest regulation, soil fertility and environmental quality.
- Erika Degani (BBSRC CASE - Syngenta) Novel crop rotations to enhance multiple ecosystem services underpinning production of winter wheat and oilseed rape.
- Mark Ashby (BBSRC DTP) Enhancing the benefits to biodiversity and ecosystem service delivery from uncropped areas in farms.
- Sean Webber (BBSRC CASE - Sainsbury's) Managing Ecosystem Services to Promote Economic Benefits and Food Security.
- Maria Zhang (EC FP7) Valuing biological pest control services.
- Dimitrios Bormpoudakis (EC FP7), The coherence and ecological sufficiency of European protected area networks.
- Louise Sutherland (EC FP7), Developing novel Systematic Conservation Planning tools.
- Charalambos Christodoulou (Cyprus government, part-time), Assessing the effectiveness of Natura 2000 sites in Cyprus.
- Megan Mckerchar (World Wide Fruit), Enhancing pollination and pest regulation services by supplementing floral resources.
- Jacob Bishop (BBSRC DTG), Yield stability and climate change: the role of pollinators.
- Chloe Hardman (BBSRC DTG), The effectiveness of agri-environmental management for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the wider countryside.
- Victoria Wickens (EC FP7), Understanding and managing the flow of pollination services between protected areas and agroecosystems.
- Jennifer Wickens (self-funded), Understanding and managing the flow of pest regulation services between protected areas and agroecosystems.
- Alexa Varah (17³Ô¹Ï RETF and Organic Research Centre), Can agroforestry reconcile conflicting demands for productivity, biodiversity conservation and delivery of ecosystem services?
- Elena Cini (EU H2020) New tools for bee health.
- Konstantinos Tsiolis (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Worldwide Fruit Limited) Bee nesting resources: the missing element of sustainable crop pollination.
- Nick Buck (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, BerryWorld) Impacts of novel control strategies for Spotted Winged Drosophila on ecosystem services and crop production in raspberries.
- Chris Wyver (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Worldwide Fruit Limited) Quantifying and mitigating spatio-temporal risks to pollination services caused by climate change.
- Kiera Dymond (Waitrose BBSRC CTP, Greencell) Sustainable avocado production: Challenges, solutions and the role of biodiversity.
- Hollie Blaydes (NERC ENVISION DTP) Solar parks: refuges for pollinators and boosting pollination services.
Research centres and groups
NIRD Trust: Committee member
Biodiversity, Crops and Agro-ecosystems Research Division
Centre for Food Security
Soil Research at 17³Ô¹Ï
Research Group:
Research projects
Current Projects:
- : Pan European assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of chemical stressors on the health of wild pollinators (Horizon EU)
- : Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches (Horizon EU)
- Waitrose: 17³Ô¹Ï Knowledge Transfer Partnership (Innovate UK)
- VALOR: Valuing the dependence of society and the economy on pollinators (Horizon Europe)
- Agri4Pol: Sustainable agriculture for pollinators (Horizon Europe)
- PollHabs: Pollinators typical of habitats protected under the Habitats Directive (DG ENV)
- EPIC Bee: European Pollinator Identification Courses – Wild Bees (DG ENV)
- EPIC Butterfly: European Pollinator Identification Courses – Butterflies (DG ENV)
- : Safeguarding European wild pollinators
- : Drivers and Repercussions of UK Insect Declines (NERC)
- : Design of the European Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (EU DG ENV)
- : Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy (EU H2020)
- : Showcasing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity (EU H2020)
- BBSRC (17³Ô¹Ï lead)
- Pollinator Monitoring and Research Partnership (Defra, JNCC, the Welsh Government, Scottish Government and project partners)
- : Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity (Horizon EU)
- : Science and Technology for Pollinating Insect0073
Recently completed Projects:
- : Status and Trends of European Pollinators (Coordinator, EU Framework 7)
- - Linking farmland biodiversity to ecosystem services for effective ecological intensification (EU FP7)
- : Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales (EU Framework 7)
- - Sustainable Pollination in Europe (EU COST Action)
- - National Pollinator and Pollination Service Monitoring Framework (Defra)
- : Sustainable Pollination services for UK Crops (Insect Pollinator Initiative project, RCUK)
- : Linking agriculture and land use change to pollinator populations (Insect Pollinator Initiative project, RCUK)
- : Urban Pollinators: their ecology and conservation (Insect Pollinator Initiative project, RCUK)
- Landscape food webs: structure and function (NERC)
- : bigger, healthier, and better-connected hedgerows (Green Recovery Challenge Fund)
- : Modelling Landscapes for Resilient Pollination Services (BBSRC Global Food Security)
- Optimising multifunctional land-use decisions: combining environmental, economic and social models for pollinators (NERC)
- Economic benefits of pollination to global food systems: Evidence and knowledge gaps (NERC)
- : Pan-European Assessment, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Stressors on the Health of Bees (EC H2020)
- : Sustainable Management of Orchard Pollination Services (BBSRC/NERC, Syngenta, Avalon and Worldwide Fruit)
- : Supporting Pollinator Recovery through Indicators and Monitoring (DG ENV)
- : Developing resources for European bee inventory and taxonomy (DG ENV)
- : Translating Research Opportunities to enhance Pollination benefits to economically Important Crops And improve Livelihoods (GCRF)
- : Sustainable farming through effective pollination and pest regulation in India (GCRF)
- Nature positive finance (NERC)
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