I am Species Projects Manager at NatureScot and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of the Highlands and Islands. My Fellowship is about nature conservation, and methods we can use to restore threatened species populations and degraded ecosystems. More specifically, I aim to learn more about the use of conservation translocation (moving species for conservation purposes) within the context of a changing climate.

I am a member of the IUCN Conservation Translocation Specialist Group and lead editor of the book Conservation Translocations published by Cambridge University Press. In Scotland I have been involved in projects that use conservation translocation, such as the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver and the restoration of the wildcat. Such projects can be complex biologically, but also in socio-economic and cultural terms. I am interested in the creative and ambitious approaches specialists in Canada and Australia have been using with such projects, including 'assisted colonisation' to move species threatened by climate change. My aim is to share this research with practitioners and influencers in Britain, and promote new action to save nature.