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Professor Dawn Scott's Inaugural Lecture

Fantastic beasts, where and how to find them: Surveying and conserving our worlds precious biodiversity

Professor Dawn Scott
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Professor Dawn Scott, Executive Dean of the School of Animal Rural and Environmental Sciences at Nottingham Trent University delivers her Inaugural Lecture  'Fantastic beasts, where and how to find them: Surveying and conserving our worlds precious biodiversity'

  • From: Monday 8 April 2024, 5.30 pm
  • To: Monday 8 April 2024, 7.30 pm
  • Registration: 5:30 pm
  • Location: Lyth Lecture Theatre, Lyth building, Brackenhurst Campus, Brackenhurst Lane, Southwell, NG25 0QF
  • Booking deadline: Monday 8 April 2024, 3.30 pm
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Event details

In this talk, Professor Scott will take you on a journey around the world to reflect on her career in exploring the causes and drivers behind global biodiversity loss and the conservation actions that are being taken. She will introduce a range of projects she has been involved with in her career of surveying, assessing, mapping and helping to protect biodiversity, as well as investigating human-wildlife relationships that could help, or hinder, their future survival.

Biography

Professor Dawn Scott is the Executive Dean of the School of Animal Rural and Environmental Sciences at Nottingham Trent University and was appointed a Professor of Mammal Ecology and Conservation in 2018. Her research explores multiple aspects mammalian ecology in different environments, assessing and applying novel methods to determine species populations and distributions, developing and evaluating conservation practice, and, exploring human-wildlife relationships and interactions. Her work aims to inform evidence-based decision-making supporting policies and practices around mammal conservation and management. She is also passionate about community engagement and science communication.


She holds a BSc Biology Biological Sciences and a PhD in Desert Ecology from Durham University. She has led a range of biodiversity assessment and conservation research projects in different parts of the world including Madagascar, South Africa, Zambia, Chile and Estonia. She has been on committees of societies such as The British Ecology Society, The Mammal Society and The Wildlife Trusts. She has worked with multiple conservation organisation in the UK and overseas and contributed to IUCN species assessment sand action plans. She currently leads a research programme with Earthwatch Institute on Conserving Threatened Rhinos in South Africa. In the UK she has been researching the ecology of wetland mammals including water voles, water shrews and beavers, and, undertaking urban mammal research for over a decade with multiple aspects of her work featured in the media, including books, news articles, radio and television programs, such as BBC Springwatch.

Programme

5.30 pmRegistration and welcome refreshments
6 pmWelcome talk
6.05 pmLecture begins
6.50 pmClose and thanks 
7 pmDrinks reception
7.30 pmClose

Location details

Room/Building:

Lyth Lecture Theatre, Lyth building

Address:

Brackenhurst Campus
Brackenhurst Lane
Southwell
NG25 0QF

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