This is the research website of me (Hannah Wauchope) and the team I work with. I'm an ecologist and conservation scientist, and my research focusses on how we can do conservation better, whether by understanding the impact of interventions (such as protecting or restoring habitat) on biodiversity, investigating how we can measure progress towards national and international policy targets, or assessing the viability of using private finance for conservation. Plus a bit of understanding how threats affect species, so we can better know the best kinds of decisions to make.

 

A lot of my research personally has focussed on the polar regions, but I'm now working with a team who have projects all over the world. Group members are currently working on projects looking at the impacts of restoration on habitats in Africa and South America, which protected area management strategies work best in the UK and Ireland, and how climate change in the Arctic is affecting both tundra plants and population dynamics between snowshoe hare and lynx.

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I'm especially interested in the methodologies and data that we use to understand the world and our impact on it. There's a lot to learn from approaches in other disciplines and I keep an active interest in developing and transporting methodologies, especially around causal inference and summarising large messy time series datasets.

 

The work of this group extends beyond academia and we have collaborated with many government and non-government organisations, including The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), WWF, Wetlands International, The Swiss Ornithological Institute, Tree Aid, The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Australian Antarctic Division.

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For more information about both current and past projects, see the Research page. And for information about who we all are, see "The Team". And if you're interested in joining, I'd love to hear from you, see the "Get in Touch" page.

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