I was fortunate to be invited to co-autor an overview paper written by a distinguished group of arachnologists lead by Prof Pedro Cardoso on the various (often overlooked) ecosystem services that spiders provided. As a reminder, ecosystem services are the benefits...
I’ve been involved in a project lead by my long-term collaborator Dr Richard Mazebedi from the Botswana International University of Science, where we mapped compared the cave ecology and conservation scientific output in Southern Africa (Botswana, Namibia and...
I have been appointed as Head of Programmes (STEM and Joint Programmes) at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Educatoin in a job share. In this role I will assist the Academic Director in providing strategic oversight and leadership of the delivery of...
As part of the Oxford University Press John Fell Fund funded project on behavioural adaptations in the cave orb spider (Meta menardi), the MBIOL student, Emily Brannigan, and myself were lucky enough to observe some opportunistic foraging attempts by a female M....
I have been fortunatete to be invited as an external collaborator in the later stages of a long-term project looking at the population dynamics in two agricultural regions in Egypt over the past 10 years. I was mainly involved in the data analysis and write-up stages....
I’ve recently been made an associate editor on the Royal Entomological Society’s journal Ecological Entomology, which I am very excited about. The journal focusses on the ecology of insects and other arthropods (including spiders) and aims to publish high...
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