Postdoctoral researchers

SHEAR project

Dr Stephanie Harris

I am interested in the movement behaviours and space use of animals, and the consequences for individuals and populations. In my most recent research, I work on understanding the drivers of demography and space use of a managed bustard population in Morocco, while in my PhD I focussed on individual variation in behaviour and foraging ecology of kittiwakes in Svalbard.

PhD and MScRes

PhD Candidate

Claire Carrington

Understanding responses of coastal seabirds to local and daily-scale meteorological variation

MScRes Candidate

Stefanie Krafft

Spatial and temporal variations in North Wales dolphin occurrences

PhD Candidate

Sarah Bond

Demographic consequences of variation in individual foraging strategies of northern fulmars.

PhD Candidate

Owain Barton

Environmental and human drivers of fallow deer movement and habitat use.

PhD Candidate

Alastair Feather

Balancing commercial shellfish harvest and shorebird conservation.

PhD Candidate

Gemma Veneruso

An applied approach to investigating disturbance of cetaceans by tidal energy developments.

MSc and MSci

Joshua Clancy (MSc, 2022)

Trends in survival of Manx shearwaters breeding on Bardsey Island

Joey Bauer (MSc, 2022)

Individual consistency and temporal trends in harbour seal pupping phenology

Alumni

Rhea Burton (PhD, 2015 - 2022): How does resource availability affect elephant movements across spatio-temporal scales? (co-supervisor)

Alejandra Vergara Pena (PhD, 2015 - 2019): Integrating bottlenose dolphin conservation management with ecotourism development.

Thomas LeClair (MSc 2021): What is the best survey regime for carrying out demographic studies of marine mammals?

Rachel Malbon (MSc 2021): Comparing the activity budgets of Manx Shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus) from two different colonies.

Kaydy Edwards (MSci 2020/2021): Do marine mammals follow Rensch’s rule of sexual size dimorphism?

Wint Hte Hte (MSc 2020): Age- and Sex-specific Survival of Harbour Seals using Bayesian Survival Trajectory Analysis (BaSTA).

Thomas Johnstone (MSc 2020): Improving bottlenose dolphin abundance estimates using the poisson-log model mark-resight model.

Ben Walley (MSc 2020): Annual and monthly trends in the abundance of bottlenose dolphins using the Moray Firth SAC, Scotland.

Shemar Blakeney (MSc 2020): Estimating demographic parameters of killer whales in UK waters from opportunistic data.

And many more...