Opportunities

We aim to be a supportive, inclusive and collaborative research group that welcomes everyone.

Unfortunately I have no funded opportunities for PhD stundentships, technicians or postdocs right now. When I do, I will list them here along with any positions with collaborators on projects I’m involved with.

If you have access to your own sources of PhD or postdoc funding, or are thinking about an independent fellowship application that we may be able to support then please get in touch. I am always very happy to discuss project possibilities and think about writing grants with new collaborators!

***Support for Masters by Research cohort starting Autumn 2026**

Any students interested in an MSc by research at Exeter should get in touch – there are lots of opportunities to develop exciting behavioural and genetic projects using guppy and shrimp systems in the fishlab but I’m also looking to start some work on sea anemones under Exeter’s new Mast-EER (Engineering Ecosystem Resilience) Masters by Research cohort, supported by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).

Info on this scheme, as well as projects being offered under it is available at https://ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-cohort/

Chemical pollution of freshwater environments can change aspects of behaviour, life history, or reproductive biology in many organisms. But how might these changes impact downstream ecological and evolutionary processes. Behavioural traits are sensitive to pollutants, but are also the first line of defence against predators and other natural threats. So small changes in behaviour could have big ecological consequences for individuals, and might also change the patterns of variation – among individuals and genotypes – that provide the raw material for natural selection and evolution.