Bangor University, UK

Andrew is Chief Executive of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence and is interested in the development of evidence synthesis and evidence-informed decision making in the environmental sector.

Bangor University, UK

Independent consultant, France

Barbara (PhD Ethology & Psychologist) is a senior consultant with more than 20 year long experience in environmental management and decision-making support. She has been involved in CEE for more than 10 years and promotes systematic reviews and maps in French-speaking countries through conferences, mentoring and training courses. Her prefered topics are human and animal behaviour and interactions, methodologies in evidence synthesis, and corporate social responsibility.

American Museum of Natural History, USA

Environmental Incentives, USA

Natalie is a Senior Research Specialist at Environmental Incentives where she works with decisionmakers to increase the effectiveness of environmental programs through better use and generation of evidence.

Carleton University, Canada

Meagan is a member of the Canadian Centre for Evidence Based Conservation and contributes to evidence synthesis (including systematic maps and systematic reviews) on various topics. Her current focus is on fish-flow relationships.

Independent consultant, France

Barbara (PhD Ethology & Psychologist) is a senior consultant with more than 20 year long experience in environmental management and decision-making support. She has been involved in CEE for more than 10 years and promotes systematic reviews and maps in French-speaking countries through conferences, mentoring and training courses. Her prefered topics are human and animal behaviour and interactions, methodologies in evidence synthesis, and corporate social responsibility.

National Museum of Natural History, France

Dakis-Yaoba is a tropical forest ecologist currently performing systematic reviews to help decision-makers and managers to preserve biodiversity.

York University, UK

George’s interests are in water and air pollution, climate change and emerging environmental technologies

NRW, UK

Sam is a Senior Scientist in the Environment Agency’s Flooding and Communities Research Team. He is leading on establishing an evidence synthesis capability within the Flood and Coastal Risk Management Directorate to support the use of evidence in strategic and policy decision-making.

Bangor University, UK

Andrew is Chief Executive of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence and is interested in the development of evidence synthesis and evidence-informed decision making in the environmental sector.

Carleton University, Canada

Siri is a Senior Research Assistant at the Canadian Centre for Evidence Based Conservation currently supporting two ongoing evidence syntheses, one looking at the effectiveness of law enforcement actions and one on community-based conservation. She has previously focused on the international wildlife trade, having conducted a systematic map and review on the conservation and socioeconomic impacts of established interventions to regulate the trade.

University of Nigeria

WWF

Bangor University, UK

Carleton University, Canada

Southampton University, UK

Geoff has worked extensively on projects evaluating the impact of farming systems on wildlife, as well as the critical appraisal of health technologies. He has an interest in improving the methods of evidence synthesis to support decision making and has contributed to a wide range of systematic reviews, systematic maps, rapid evidence assessments and methods guidelines.

University of Minho, Portugal

Carleton University, Canada

Albana Berberi is a PhD student at Carleton University studying Ontario freshwater turtle conservation. Her research interests include biodiversity conservation, environmental policy, and interdisciplinary sciences.

EESKT-TCEBCEM, Nigeria

American Museum of Natural History, USA

Erin’s research interests include the intersection of nature and human well-being, factors influencing ecological and social resilience, food and food systems; capacity development and conservation training at undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels, and evidence-based conservation & evidence-informed approaches to community engagement in conservation

Formas, Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, Sweden

Arvid is interested in systematic review methodology, particularly in applications to support national environmental objectives. In previous research, he has worked mainly with hydrology, water resources, and climate change.

Natural Resources Wales, United Kingdom

Holly is a Specialist Advisor for Futures and Innovation in NRW’s evidence team. She supports colleagues to consider future trends in their work and make more resilient plans and decisions. She also supports innovation and problem solving through the NRW innovation group. NRW is Wales’ (UK) government sponsored body for the environment and our work covers a vast remit, including areas such as forestry, fisheries, water efficiency, biodiversity and waste regulation.

Cardiff University, UK

Neil’s research interests include all things marine, but especially sharks and marine protected areas. His PhD looks at the use of technology and social networks to better understand dynamic temporal and spatial habitat use in temperate and tropical shark species.

The Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland

Daniela’s research interests include plant-microbe interactions and fungal ecology to study plant microbiome and fungal pathogens, and understanding disease development in plants and search for biological control strategies to plant diseases.

Cardiff University, UK

Sarah is interested in all aspects of conservation biology and ecology, particularly species interactions and molecular analysis of diet. She is currently working on her PhD investigating how climate change might change patterns of prey availability for insectivorous songbirds, and the potential for interspecific competition as a result.

Environmental Incentives, USA

Natalie is a Senior Research Specialist at Environmental Incentives where she works with decisionmakers to increase the effectiveness of environmental programs through better use and generation of evidence.

European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, UK

Jacqui is an evidence synthesis specialist with over 10 years’ experience leading scoping and systematic evidence reviews. She works within the CEE’s UK Centre hub, at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, which conducts world-class interdisciplinary research into the complex connections between the environment and health. Jacqui set up the training faculty of the CEE at the Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation in 2009, and remains on the CEE Training Team board. Alongside international colleagues, she has developed and published methodologies and guidelines for evidence synthesis. Jacqui continues to design and deliver specialist training for evidence synthesis in the environmental sciences.

Formas, Swedish research council for sustainable development, Sweden

Bangor University, UK

Salamatu is a Nigerian born Conservation Scientist and Educator resident in Bangor Gwynedd, United Kingdom. She was a Research fellow with the Centre for Evidence Based Conservation, Bangor University, UK between 2016 -2018 and currently, a Visiting Researcher in the School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, UK. Her current research involves establishing a Coalition of Conservationists in Nigeria to work as a collective in creating sustainable conservation interventions to protect Nigerian Biodiversity. She is also actively involved in Human – wildlife conflict/co-existence in Dadin Kowa, Nigeria among other things. Salamatu is appointed member Expert Assessment Group, IUCN Green list for Nigeria.

University of Minho, Portugal

Pedro is in the second-year of the Master’s on Plant Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Bioentreperneuship from the University of Minho, Portugal. He is currently working on the development of a bio-fungicide for treating cork oak diseases, using the state-of-the-art biotechnological technique SIGS. This work awoke in him a special interest in small RNAs and how these molecules could affect not only plant development but also, how these small RNAs affect different plant-microorganism interactions.

Southampton University, UK

Geoff has worked extensively on projects evaluating the impact of farming systems on wildlife, as well as the critical appraisal of health technologies. He has an interest in improving the methods of evidence synthesis to support decision making and has contributed to a wide range of systematic reviews, systematic maps, rapid evidence assessments and methods guidelines.

Cardiff University, UK

Isa is a Conservationist with over 10 years of experience in African non-human primate and molecular biology, currently based at Cardiff University. Her PhD focusses on understanding how humans and non-human primates co-exist in highly degraded forests, and the impact that such alterations have on the genetics and diet of these endangered species. She also has a wide experience in Science Communication and since 2019 is a Co-I of the “ARKS of the 21^st Century” project and a consultant for The Frozen Ark charity.

Carleton University, Canada

Meagan is a member of the Canadian Centre for Evidence Based Conservation and contributes to evidence synthesis (including systematic maps and systematic reviews) on various topics. Her current focus is on fish-flow relationships.

Natural Resources Wales, UK

Josie works in the evidence team of Natural Resources Wales (NRW) where her role is to support the staff right across the organisation to use and commission evidence syntheses. She also advises staff on the effective communication of evidence to their wide range of audiences, from the public to policy makers. NRW is Wales’ (UK) government sponsored body for the environment and our work covers a vast remit, including areas such as forestry, fisheries, water efficiency, biodiversity and waste regulation.

Colorado State University, USA

Kelly is an associate professor at Colorado State University. Her research interests include causal analysis of conservation and land use policies including protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, land tenure interventions, and wildfire mitigation practices. She regularly collaborates on interdisciplinary teams to examine both environmental and socioeconomic outcomes of these policies and practices. 

Cardiff University, UK

Carleton University, Canada

Andrew’s research interests focus on regulating ecosystem services (e.g. pollination, flood regulation), and the use of evidence in wildlife management and conservation.

Julius-Kuehn Institute, Germany

Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Tinka’s research interests focus on the interrelation of ecosystems and human well-being, and the sustainable use of ecosystem services. She is interested in evidence informed governance of marine ecosystems and the integrated management of freshwater and soil resources.

FORMAS, Swedish research council for sustainable development, Sweden

Magnus’ research interests include water quality and environmental chemistry.

Independent consultant, France

Barbara (PhD Ethology & Psychologist) is a senior consultant with more than 20 year long experience in environmental management and decision-making support. She has been involved in CEE for more than 10 years and promotes systematic reviews and maps in French-speaking countries through conferences, mentoring and training courses. Her prefered topics are human and animal behaviour and interactions, methodologies in evidence synthesis, and corporate social responsibility.

Natural Resources Wales, UK

Luke takes a strategic lead for Operations Research across NRW and helps maintain and develop networks across the UK. He is also involved with horizon scanning and futures methodologies with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to help drive innovation and identify threats/opportunities. Part of his role within the team is to collaborate with the other specialists and help bridge the gaps between the “Evidence, Policy & Permitting” Directorate and the “Operations” Directorate, ensuring an evidence-based approach to all aspects of NRW’s wide ranging remit is being taken.

EESKT-TCEBCEM, Nigeria

Cardiff University, UK

Katherine is a PhD Student and her research interests lie mainly within tropical ecology, particularly the influence of land conversion and habitat fragmentation on biodiversity and forest ecology. Currently she is studying the genetic impacts of forest fragmentation on Madagascar’s amphibians.

University of Exeter and University of York, UK

Beth is a conservation scientist whose research interests lie in the sustainable management of marine resources and the integration of scientific research with applied environmental management and policy. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and an Honorary Fellow at the University of York.

Carleton University, Canada

Siri is a Senior Research Assistant at the Canadian Centre for Evidence Based Conservation currently supporting two ongoing evidence syntheses, one looking at the effectiveness of law enforcement actions and one on community-based conservation. She has previously focused on the international wildlife trade, having conducted a systematic map and review on the conservation and socioeconomic impacts of established interventions to regulate the trade.

University of Plymouth, UK

Sandra currently finds herself a perpetual student, currently completing her second MSc before embarking on her PhD, where her current focus is stepping away from the environment sector slightly and focusing on neuroscience. She is hoping in the end to combine the two into a research career post-doc.

EESKT-TCEBCEM, Nigeria

National Museum of Natural History, France

Dakis-Yaoba is a tropical forest ecologist currently performing systematic reviews to help decision-makers and managers to preserve biodiversity.

Cardiff University, UK

York University, UK

George’s interests are in water and air pollution, climate change and emerging environmental technologies

University College London, UK

Rebecca is known for her work on perspectives and participation in the synthesis of existing research and the production of qualitative and mixed-methods systematic reviews, with a particular focus on young people’s health and wellbeing.

American Museum of Natural History, USA

Amanda is a Biodiversity Specialist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) at the AMNH and serves as Coordinator for the CEE-US Centre. Her research interests include biocultural approaches to conservation, capacity development, natural climate solutions, and evidence-based conservation & evidence-informed approaches to conservation.

UMS PatriNat OFB-MNHN-CNRS, France

Romain is an engineer in ecology. His expertise mainly concerns ecological networks (green infrastructures) and pollutions (noise, artificial light at night). He coordinates a team dedicated to systematic maps and reviews on biodiversity within the UMS PatriNat, a unit under the co-supervision of three French public institutions (OFB, MNHN, CNRS).

Cardiff University, UK

Max is an entomologist based at Cardiff University, where he is currently working on his PhD. His research investigates the ecology of invasive ants on Round Island, Mauritius, and harnesses the power of DNA metabarcoding to elucidate trophic interactions. He is broadly interested in insect ecology, biodiversity, and evolution, or anything ant-themed.

EESKT-TCEBCEM, Nigeria

Africa Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Carina’s research interests include governance of environmental resources, especially water and climate change, the nature of evidence (for whom and why), science-policy-practices interfaces, especially co-production, and scholarship of teaching and supervision. In all these interests she departs from synthesised evidence, and view these through a social justice lens.

Cardiff University and the Zoological Society of London, UK

Nina’s research interests focus cover conservation genetics and molecular ecology. She is currently completing a PhD, studying genetic aspects of the decline and survival of a critically endangered amphibian, following on from its near-extinction due to infectious disease.

Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK

University of Cardiff

University of New South Wales

University of Minho, Portugal

Cardiff University, UK

EESKT-TCEBCEM, Nigeria

Beijing Normal University, China