See research page for information on general research areas.

MRes and PhD Projects
The Centre for Ecology and Conservation has a vibrant graduate student community with over 80 postgraduate research students and a larger number of taught MSc students

I am keen to supervise MRes and PhD projects on a broad range of evolutionary questions, particularly using insect model systems and ideally exploiting our WildCrickets system. I don't anticpate having funding for studentships in the next 12 months and getting funding for a PhD is increasingly difficult unless you have a wealthy Aunt. There are some opportunities listed on the University funding page. Funding your own MRes project is less of a financial committment that embarking on a PhD, and if you're doing this you need to be sure you do a project that will generate publications quickly. Drop me a line and we can talk about projects using our WildCrickets system, that I think are ideal in this respect.

Post-Doctoral opportunities
I am keen to collaborate with post-doctoral researchers interested in similar areas to myself. If you are a non-UK EU citizen you can apply for Fellowships from a number of organisations: consult NERC, BBSRC,Royal Society and Marie Curie webpages for Fellowship eligibility and guidelines. If you are a non EU-citizen, you may be eligible for funding from Marie Curie, Royal Society, NSF (US only), Life Science Research Foundation (US only), and Human Frontiers programs. We are very keen to host research fellows. If you are thinking about writing a fellowship application and fancy working somewhere nice with a strong evolutionary ecology focus, drop me a line.

Drinking opportunities
In the autumn of 1836, Charles Darwin landed within sight of the Tremough campus, recording in his diary: 'On the 2nd of October we made the shore, of England; and at Falmouth I left the Beagle, having lived on board the good little vessel nearly five years. ' To celebrate this auspicious event, the Centre for Ecology and Conservation hosts an annual Darwin Landing Lecture followed by a dinner at one of the restaurants favoured by Charles during his visit. Past speakers have included Geoff Parker, Tim Clutton Brock, Kate Lessells,Pat Monaghan, Charles Godfray, Alan Grafen and Nick Davies.