Projects and Membership...

Research Projects

2020-2022. Quantifying Pharmaceuticals in Northern Irish Waters. Agri-Food and Bioscience Institute Northern Ireland. DAERA Enterprise & Innovation Funding. Co-investigator.

2018-2020. Rising from the Depths Large Project. Marine Cultural Heritage in Northern Mozambique. AHRC/GCRF Ulster University. Co-Investigator. £100,000. 2018-2020.

2014 – 2017. Extinction, ecosystem structure and carbon cycling in coastal sediments. Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. The Queen's University of Belfast. Participation: PI Total: £87,000.

2012 – 2014. Bio-ERODS: Biogeochemistry of erosive material deposition in streams: Impact of particulate deposition upon biofilm carbon cycling. FP7 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. University of Vienna. Participation: PI. Coordinator: Prof Tom Battin. Total: €187,888.

2008 – 2012. Carbon and Nitrogen cycling across the bathyal continental margins: Oxygen availability and organic matter quality as controls upon sediment community activity. Natural Environment Research Council Doctoral Training Grant. University of Aberdeen. Participation: Doctoral Student. Supervisor: Prof Ursula Witte.

2007 – 2008. Aquaculture and Behaviour. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. University of Glasgow. Participation: Research Assistant. Principal Investigator: Prof. Felicity Huntingford.

2005 – 2006. Investigating environmental benefits of artificial reefs. Sandwich Student. Scottish Association for Marine Science. Participation: PI. Supervisor: Dr. Martin Sayer. Funded by: Project AWARE Foundation, Total: £35,000; British Sub-Aqua Jubilee Trust, Total: £2000; Society for Underwater Technology Educational Support Fund, Total: £2000.

Membership of Learned Societies

Linnean Society of London - Fellow

Higher Education Academy - Associate Fellow

European Geoscience Union- Member

British Ecological Society - Member

Professional Service and Synergystic Activites

UK Clean and Safe Seas Evidence Group. Member (since 2020).

ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group. Member (since 2015).

British Ecological Society Aquatic Group Member of Scientific Committee (2015 – 2017). Session chair at the 2015 British Ecological Society Aquatic Group Annual meeting.

QUB School of Biological Science Equality and Diversity (Athena SWAN) Self-Assessment Team Early Career Representative. (2014 – 2017) and School of Biological Sciences representative on the Queen’s University Postdoctoral Forum (2015 – 2017). In 2015 I co-organised a Grants and Fellowships workshop for early career researchers funded through the school’s Athena SWAN Initiative.

Review College membership

Review college member for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Global Change Research funding call (2016) and the British Ecological Society Research Grants scheme (2012 - present).

Peer reviewer for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) 6th Assessment.

Journal Referee

Associate Editor, Frontiers in Marine Science.

Reviewer for internationally competitive journals including: Biogeosciences; Environmental Science & Technology; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; Methods in Ecology & Evolution.