Funding for studying cave orb spiders

I have been fortunate to receive funding for a project on studying the anti-predatory and foraging behaviour of the cave spider Meta menardi from the competitive John Fell Fund for University of Oxford researchers and from the British Cave Research Association. The...

New paper out on urban bats by an EST studentĀ 

Chris Stanley, who was a PgCert Ecological Survey Techniques student at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, has published his very interesting project on how urban bat activity if affected by wooded streets and light levels in the Journal of...

New paper: Insects as indoor pests in India

I’ve been involved in project by the talented PhD student Sajidha Mohammed from the University of Calicut in India, who I informally co-supervise. Her project focusses on the negative role of insects found in houses in general, and mupli beetles in particular,...

Research associate at Coiba AIP

I’ve had the honour of being made research associate at Coiba AIP. A Panamanian research organisation focussing on conservation, biodiversity and sustainability with a focus on the nature reserve surrounding the island of Coiba off the Panamanian coast. The...

New review paper on spider-plant interactions in Insects

We have today published a review paper in the special issue of Spider Ecology and Behaviour in Insects that looks into the very interesting, but understudied area of interactions between spiders and plants. Our review paper focusses especially on how web-building...