Position: PhD student
General interests
My PhD project is studying the effects of low dose radiation on bumblebees using both laboratory studies and field based studies in Chernobyl. I studied conservation biology as my main interest is ecology. After university I worked in the tropics for three years on conservation projects in the Seychelles. I then returned to Stirling as this PhD position appealed to me as during my time at Stirling University I undertook my project verifying models used to predict dose rates to wild life around Torness Nuclear power station. My PhD incorporates both radiation and ecology and I now spend time in Chernobyl looking at the consequences to populations living in the contaminated landscape.
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Academic background
Conservation Biology (B.Sc. Hons); Stirling University (2008-2012)
PhD; Stirling University (2015-2019)