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Dr Neil Reid

School of Biological Sciences
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Dr Neil Reid

School of Biological Sciences

Policy-relevant evaluation of conservation strategies e.g. agri-environment schemes; Conservation ecology e.g. the impact of bushmeat hunting on Central American large mammals; Applied ecology of farmland species e.g. badgers and their role in bovine tuberculosis; Ecology of invasive species e.g. non-native plants and mammals; Statistical advances in terrestrial mammal abundance estimation e.g. Distance Sampling and camera trap Random Encounter Models; the Impact of hunting wild mammals with dogs e.g. hare coursing and most recently biodiversity, sustainability and carbon sequestration.

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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Conservation Biology, Ecology, Zoology or Environmental Science (or allied subjects) with an interested in policy-relevant evaluation of conservation strategies e.g. agri-environment schemes
  • Conservation ecology especially in the tropics (rainforest biomes)
  • Applied ecology (particularly of farmland species or non-native biological invasions) or development of methods in biodiversity monitoring and surveillance (with an emerging interest in the use of Artificial Intelligence i.e. neural networks for camera trap or satellite image analysis (including Geographic Information Systems) or soundscape audio analysis). Please read my online profile before approaching.

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Public outreach & key achievements

Memberships and Public Reach

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

  •  Committee Member of the Copeland Bird Observatory

  •  Public talks to, for example, wildlife trusts

Media Apprearances

  • BBC Springwatch 

  •  BBC Autumnwatch

  •  BBC Coast

  •  BBC Radio 4's Today Programme  

Media Appearances

  • The  Guardian

  •  The Times Higher 

  •  The Conversation - “impact of climate change on lagomorphs"

 


Research students

PhD Title Agri-environment schemes in Less Favoured Areas and Brexit
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD Title   The role of biodiversity in tropical forest carbon flux  
Country England
   
PhD Title  Breeding behaviour and productivity of the Natterjack toad in Ireland
Country   Bulgaria 
   
PhD Title Lagomorphs as reservoirs for agriculturally important parasites
Country England
   
PhD Title Grassland management and its impact on carbon fluxes
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD Title Indirect contact between badgers and cattle and bovine tuberculosis
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD Title Bushmeat hunting and its impact on large Neotropical mammals
Country England

 

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title “Global lagomorph macroecology: interspecific interactions and the impact of climate change”.
Country England
Current Position  Business and biodiversity Programme Officer, UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
   
PhD Title  “Invasion ecology of non-native European brown hares and their impact on the endemic Irish hare”
Country  Wales
Current Position  Post-doc, Ornithology Group, University College Cork
   
PhD Title  “Freshwater invasive plants in Ireland: distribution, impacts and spread”
Country Republic of Ireland
Current Position  Post-doc, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin

 

 


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