Teaching

2020. Ambroise Gregoire Baker – Fellowship – Advance HE (FHEA). As soon as I took up my first lectureship I became a student again, ironically, by undertaking a PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Eduction, Teesside University, UK.

2020. Direct involvement in developing Teesside University’s MSc in Environmental Management launched in September 2020.

2019. LTE published a case study of teaching innovation about my development of a peer-assement workflow for a first year 120-student module. Follow this link to access on LTE’s blog.

2018-present: Module leader and/or significant module contributions to:

- - (UG and PG) Dissertation project supervision (2019 onwards)
  - (MSc) Conservation (2020 onwards)
  - (MSc) Ecology (2022 onwards)
  - (Y3) Environmental Resources Management (2019-2021)
  - (Y3) Biogeography and Conservation (2018-2021)
  - (Y2) Practical Conservation (2021 onwards)
  - (Y2) Ecology and Biodiversity (2019-2021)
  - (Y1) Animal and Plant Biology (2019 onwards)
  - (Foundation Year) Life on Earth (2018 onwards)

I receive positive feedback, from both the department and the students with special comments about how I make the topics interesting – ‘even’ bryophytes, algae and seaweed I am told!

Pre-Lectureship Teaching

2017. Guest Lecturer. One-day lecture and practical on dung fungal spores, part of Palynology course. MSc Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

2017. Guest Lecturer. Three hour lecture on ‘Aquatic landscapes in space and time’. MSc Aquatic Science and MSc Conservation, UCL, UK.

2016. Guest Lecturer for PRIDE, an EU Horizon-2020 Innovative Doctoral Training Network 2015-2019. Brunell University, UK.

2016. Teaching residential field trip to Scotland with. MSc Aquatic Science, UCL, UK.

2016. Co-Supervisor: Undergraduate dissertation on ecological changes since industrialisation of an English upland lake. UCL, UK.

2016. Guest Lecturer. Three hour lecture on ‘Aquatic landscapes in space and time’. MSc Aquatic Science and MSc Conservation, UCL, UK.

2015. Guest Lecturer. Three hour lecture on ‘Aquatic landscapes in space and time’. MSc Aquatic Science and MSc Conservation, UCL, UK.

2014. Guest Lecturer. Three hour lecture on ‘Aquatic landscapes in space and time’. MSc Aquatic Science and MSc Conservation, UCL, UK.

2014. Co-Supervisor: Undergraduate dissertation on vegetation dynamics during the Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions, Alaska. UCL, UK.

2012. Supervisor: Undergraduate dissertation on the long-term impact of large herbivores on Beech (Fagus sylvatica) establishment in the New Forest, UK, using dung fungal spores. University of Oxford, UK.

2011-2012. Tutorial leader on the topic of rewilding. MSc/MA Conservation and BSc Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.

2011. Demonstrator. Biodiversity Survey practical. Field collection of forest vascular plants and insects, laboratory identification and guidance on the use of statistics for report write-ups. BSc Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.

2010. Supervisor. Undergraduate dissertation on the forest history of sacred groves in the Western Ghats, India, using phytoliths. University of Oxford, UK. Results now published as Nogue et al 2016.

About Me

My work focuses on how plants, biodiversity and complex ecosystems respond to environmental change. Answering this question is critical to developing: 1) guidance to accelerate ecological recovery and 2) evidence-based policies to protect the environment and human well-being in the context of global change. New evidences in my research chiefly come directly from studying plants, the natural environment and large-scale, long-term ecological systems.

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I am a Senior Lecturer in Ecology at Teesside University, UK. I was previously a post-doctoral researcher based in UCL (University College London), UK, working on landscape connectivity, biodiversity and ecosystem function in freshwater networks (projects: Lake BESS, Hydroscape). My PhD, completed in the Oxford Long-term Ecology Lab at the University of Oxford, UK, was a contribution to the hotly debated conservation practice of rewilding, using a long-term perspective.