Speakers
Speakers and workshop leaders will share tales from their recent expeditions, while Society staff will be available to provide personalised advice and guidance on your own future field projects and expeditions.
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Thomas Starnes
Thom is Key Biodiversity Areas Programme Officer with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Cambridge.
Suzannah Egleston
Suzannah recently completed an MRes in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at Imperial College London.
Niall McCann
Niall is a Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), National Geographic Explorer, conservationist and broadcaster, with a particular interest in humankind’s relationship with nature.
Joshua Powell
Joshua is a conservation biologist, currently completing his PhD on large carnivore conservation in north-east Asia at the Zoological Society of London and UCL.
Joe Langley
Joe is a recent MSc Conservation graduate from UCL with fieldwork experience in the Congo Basin and South Africa. His particular interests are in tropical biodiversity and human-wildlife conflict.
James Kempton
James is a researcher in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford. In the summer of 2023, he led an international coalition of scientists to New Guinea for Expedition Cyclops
James Borrell
James is a research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. As a conservation biologist he has been involved with expeditions and fieldwork in a diverse range of environments, and is currently working in Madagascar.
Holly O'Donnell
Holly is a conservation biologist with a passion for remote places and understudied species.
Eleanor Drinkwater
Eleanor Drinkwater is an entomologist, expedition leader and science communicator.
Catherine Edsell
Catherine designs conservation expeditions for women to assist in the mitigation of elephant/human conflict in Namibia, coral reef conservation in Madagascar and Indonesia, and rainforest conservation in Peru.
Aoife Cantwell-Jones
Aoife is a PhD student at Imperial College London. She recently completed a fieldwork expedition to Arctic Sweden, to study how bumblebees might be affected by changes to climate.
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