2021-Present Senior Lecturer, Zoology, NUI Galway2007-2021 Lecturer (Above the Bar), Zoology, NUI Galway.2001-2007 Lecturer (Below the Bar), Zoology, NUI Galway.2000 Postdoctorate Research, Zoology, Trinity College, Dublin.2000-2001 Environmental Education Unit Manager, An Taisce, Ireland.2012 Postgraduate Cert. in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, NUI Galway.1997-1998 Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin.1996-1999 PhD in Zoology, Trinity College, Dublin Grey squirrel ecology in managed broadleaved woodland.

My research group is the Animal Ecology and Conservation Unit, based in the Ryan Institute in NUI Galway. We have worked on a number of wildlife conservation projects, using lab and field techniques, often from an applied ecology perspective. Several projects have been conducted on squirrel ecology with particular reference to their distribution, red and grey squirrel competition, red squirrel conservation and the management of grey squirrel populations. We identified an interaction between the two squirrel species and pine martens, causing a crash in grey squirrel distribution from a large area in the midlands of Ireland. This reversal of fortunes between the two squirrel species is tracked through a long term series of distribution data. My research group has also investigated the use of translocation as a conservation tool for red squirrels, and the interactions between both squirrel species and pine martens. The ecology of small mammal populations, the control of pest species, the ecology of invasive species, mammal monitoring techniques and their applications and mammal parasitology are other areas of interest. Other projects include an investigation of the tardigrade (or water bear) fauna of Ireland, frog ecology in coniferous forests and fish passage at hydroelectric power stations.Thisincludesalongterminvestigation,inpartnershipwithESB,ofeelandsalmonmigration on Irishriversystems