Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Qualified and motivated graduate students with similar research interests are welcome to email me. In particular, I am looking for PhD students interested in macroecology/biogeography questions related to different types of species diversity: taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic. I am also interested in supervising students with interests in island biogeography, functional island biogeography, and the study of global environmental change (e.g. habitat loss, climate change, invasive species) on islands.

Current Doctoral Researchers

Lead supervisor

Yating Song (2018 – present) The impact of urbanisation on carnivore species

Joseph Wayman (2018 – present) Holistic approach to global environmental change research

Eva Benavides-Ríos (2021 – present) Island macroecology and the conservation of island biodiversity

Maria Jørgensen (2022 - present) Island biogeography of avian extinctions and introductions

Osanna Chu (2023 - present) Predicting functional diversity loss across islands for plants and birds

Co-supervisor

Imogen Mansfield (2018 – present) Indicators of air pollution-derived stress in birds

Sijeh Asuk (2018 – present) Phenological responses of food producing forest trees to climate change

Aaron Bhambra (2021 - present) Habitat fragmentation and heathland pollinators

Greg Eckhartt (2022 - present) Do wooded networks enhance bird movement in urban areas?

Estelle Darko (2022 - present) Forest Diversity, Dynamics and Resilience in a changing world

Rachel Mailes (2023 - present) Tropical foreast biodiversity and carbon sequestration


Completed students

Thomas Aspin (2016 – 2018) Drought impacts on stream ecosystems
Eva Loza Vega (2017 – 2020) Long term changes in macroinvertebrate communities in streams of Denali National Park, Alaska
Zining Whang (2017 – 2020) Drought impacts on stream ecosystems.
Victoria Pattison-Willits (2019 – 2023) Avian productivity, urbanization and climatic extremes
Ye Li (2017 – 2023) The island biogeography of urban ecosystems.

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