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...
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...
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,...
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...
During the pandemic lockdown, I had the great fortunate of being invited to participate in a global desk study on how spiders are portrayed in the news organised by Stefano Mammola and Catherine Scott. The study included 66 authors from most corners of the globe with...
At the beginning of August, I spend a week on Madeira doing field work. Madeira is a relatively small isolated oceanic island in the North Atlantic, 400 km north of the Canary Islands, with a subtropical climate. It was an amazing place to do field work with a large...
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