​Being an expert means you spend your life studying something. 
- Professor Brian Cox OBE FRS

Academic Expertise

  • Marine biology
  • Marine mammal science
  • Movement ecology
  • Biologging and biotelemetry
  • Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)
  • Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina)
  • ​Science policy​​
  • Statistical modelling
  • Marine renewable energy
  • Scientific diving and underwater surveys
  • Rocky shore ecology
  • Wild animal capture and handling

Research Interests

  • Seal behaviour and ecology
  • Marine conservation
  • Marine vertebrates
  • Spatial ecology
  • Energetics
  • Policy
  • Science communication
  • Statistical modelling
  • Pedagogy
  • Marine renewable energy
  • Movement ecology
  • Dispersal ecology
  • ​Population ecology
  • Diving behaviour
  • Foraging behaviour
  • Biotelemetry
  • Climate change
  • Tidal dynamics