Dr. Richard Rolfe
Course Leader, BSc Animal Biology and BSc Biology and Senior Lecturer in Biosciences at the University of Gloucestershire. Rik is a parasite biologist and his main interests are in parasite chemosensory behaviour, neurobiology and drug resistance mechanisms.
OUR NATURALISTS
Will Carpenter
Will works at FCH Campus and provides support to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Bioscience facilities. He demonstrates the use of field and laboratory equipment to students, assisting with laboratory and field based practicals. His other duties include being a Campus first aider, providing field kit, and health and safety advice and compliance.
Prof. Adam Hart
At the University of Gloucestershire, Adam is Professor of Science Communication. He has a number of active research interests, including ant communication, flying ants, the links between colony organisation and disease, thermal biology of ants and citizen science.
As a Professor of Science Communication, Adam is actively involved in a number of media-related projects including broadcasting as a presenter for BBC2 with Hive Alive and with BBC4 in the succesful documetary Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony as well as BBC Learning on BBC2. He provides science input for BBC Radio Gloucestershire and a monthly column (Research Focus) in the Gloucestershire Echo and Citizen newspapers.
Dr. Matt Wood
Matt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire. His research focuses on the ecology of seabirds, and disease in wild populations. Much of this is based on Skomer & Skokholm islands in west Wales. He manages the monitoring of six species of seabird as part of JNCC's Seabird Monitoring Programme work on Skomer, and long-term seabird datasets dating back to the 1970s.
If you are a naturalist and interested in doing a survey, or joining in with a survey team, please click on the "Volunteer" tab above.
Jessica Dumoulin
Jasmine Stokes
Jasmine Stokes is the Chairman of the Bioblitz. She is in her second year of university at UoG studying Animal Biology, and is very excited to be running this event in June. This will be her first large scale event she will have organised, and is particularly looking forward to the public participating in this scientific event.
Anne is a Reader in Applied Ecology at the University of Gloucestershire and course leader for the MSc Applied Ecology degree. Anne has a broad range of research interests that centre around applied ecology. This includes the ways in which species interact with their biotic and abiotic environments, the biotic effects of climatic change, ecological monitoring, and conservation ecology. Although Anne works on many different taxonomic groups, including plants, insects, amphibians, and mammals, her particular passion is applied ornithology – anything connected with birds has always fascinated her.
Dr. Anne Goodenough
Tricia Atkinson
I am vice chair of the Gloucestershire Branch of Butterfly Conservation, a national charity devoted to saving butterflies, moths and their habitats. In the summer I record butterflies mainly on sites in the Cotswolds. In the winter I am involved in conservation work parties on our reserves and local sites.
I am also passionate about encouraging butterflies into gardens by planting the right type of plants to bring in butterflies to nectar and also breed in a garden. As well as developing my own butterfly-friendly garden, I have helped to develop a nectar garden in the old monastery garden at Prinknash Abbey.
I want to share my passion and love for butterflies with others and try to encourage people both to go out and record butterflies and also to encourage butterflies and other insects into their own garden.
Chloe Dix
Robyn Fowler
Paul Kimber
In Paul’s current role as Technical Services Manager at FCH Campus, he oversees the work of a diverse range of Laboratory and IT Technical staff.
Paul holds responsibilities within the Environmental and Education Laboratories, where he maintains analytical equipment and laboratory spaces, takes responsibility for health & safety processes and procedures, and supports field equipment provision.
Prior to joining the University full time, Paul worked as a hydrologist within the Environment Agency. In this position he supported the development of water resource models based on the hydrological modelling of river catchments
Dr. Oliver Moore
Oliver joined the University of Gloucestershire in 2014 after completing a PhD in ecology at Imperial College London looking into the impact of red deer management on bryophyte and lichen assemblages in northwest Scotland. This followed on from a BTCV Natural Talent apprenticeship specialising in bryophytes. He has previously worked as an Education Officer for Suffolk Wildlife Trust, Senior Ecology Tutor with the Field Studies Council, Assistant Warden for The National Trust and more recently as an Ecologist for a consultancy firm in Scotland. These positions all drew on his life-long interest in natural history.
Oliver is currently preparing a bryophyte and lichen flora for the Letterewe Estate, Wester Ross and working on a paper about the impacts of red deer on summit moss-heath vegetation in northwest Scotland.
Peter Martin
Gareth Parry
Scott Passmore
Based in the Forest of Dean; Gloucestershire Amphibian and Reptile Group (GlosARG) comprises of volunteers across Gloucestershire; it has been created for anyone who is concerned with the conservation of native frogs, toads, newts, lizards and snakes.
Elizabeth Pimley
Elizabeth is a Chartered Environmentalist, Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (MCIEEM), Member of Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) and Member of the Nocturnal Primate Research Group (Oxford Brookes University). Her general research interest lies in the area of mammal behaviour, conservation and ecology; she has a specialist interest in nocturnal primates, with a particular focus on the African lorisids and bushbabies, which she started studying during her PhD and continued as a Research Associate in the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour at the University of Cambridge. At present, Elizabeth is focussing on the applied ecology and conservation of UK wildlife, with a focus on mammals–badgers, bats, dormice and water voles in particular.
Sally Rogers
I was awarded my PhD from the University of Bristol in partnership with the Institute for Animal Health, in which my research focused on the evolution of Natural Killer (NK) cell receptor genes. Following post-doctoral work at the Institute for Animal Health to continue this project, I moved to the Terry Fox Laboratory at the BC Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver. Here my research focused on mammalian NK receptor genes, including regulation of transcription by epigenetic mechanisms. I also studied epigenetic regulation of prognostic markers for myeloid leukaemia.
I started at the University of Gloucestershire in 2013. My current (varied!) research interests include the use of molecular methods to study pied flycatcher populations, the role of epigenetics in regulating chicken MHC genes, the role of epigenetics in regulating bacterial genes and a study of soil invertebrates at Ashleworth Ham.
Hannah Stubbs
Hannah’s work at FCH encompasses the day to day running of the Bioscience facilities, demonstrating to students, assisting with laboratory and field based practicals and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate research. Other duties include provision of biological field kit, health and safety advice and compliance, and being a first aider.
Before joining the University in 2005, Hannah undertook an undergraduate degree at Hartpury College (UWE) in Animal Science, following this she worked as a pathology laboratory assistant, secondary education laboratory technician and also worked as an aviary keeper at a National Trust property assisting with breeding and conservation. Hannahs main areas of interest within her field are mammalian animal nutrition, physiology, welfare and ethics and laboratory animal management.
During her time at the FCH Hannah has undertaken a bee keeping course in anticipation of keeping bees at the University and has also assisted on field work around Gloucestershire, Dorset, Cornwall and in the Cevennes National Park in Southern France. In the future Hannah is hoping to assist more closely with academic research
David Scott-Langley
David Scott-Langley is an all-round amateur field naturalist specialising in invertebrates. He is a county invertebrate recorder for the Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society and works with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust giving identification sessions on a wide range of subjects.
With over twenty years experience as the counties botanical recorders, Clare and Mark Kitchen have devoted a lifetime to identifying, recording and mapping the Gloucestershire wild flowers, grasses and ferns. They co-wrote The Flora of the Bristol Region and were two of the editors of the two volume Bishop's New Flora of Gloucestershire. They compile an annual report on the botany of the county which is published in Gloucestershire Naturalist.
Clare and Mark Kitchen
