2026. NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Pushing the Frontiers project: PRECISE: Precision Ecology for a Changing World.
Principal investigator: Becks Spake (Uni. Southampton), (£926,000 FEC)
Project co-leads: James Bullock (UKCEH), Luke Evans (UKCEH), Matt Grainger (NINA),
Researchers and collaborators: Emma Gardner (UKCEH), Rob Cooke (UKCEH), Shinichi Nakagawa (University of Alberta), Elizabeth Tipton (Northwestern University), Tord Snäll (Forestry Research Institute of Sweden)
2025-2028. Centre for Forest Protection: Understanding grey squirrel bark stripping £639,27
Project leads: Alexandra Ash (Uni. Southampton), Cally Ham (Forest Research), Patrick Doncaster (Uni. Southampton)
Collaborators: University of Southampton; Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA); Cardiff University; University of Reading; Swansea University; Woodland Trust; Charles Dutton & Co. Woodland Management
2025 - 2027. New Forest Biodiversity Forum Strategic Grant for 'New Forest Living Lab: Developing a partnership for student-led projects' £22,100 + equipment grant s(~£5k)
Principal investigator: Becks Spake
Co-Investigators: Kate Parks, Chris Hill, Tina Christmann
2025. Sustainability and Resilience Institute, Seed Funding: 'Understanding motivation for local business investment in nature recovery within National Parks' £5,000.
Leads: Becks Spake, Evelyn Pina-Covarrubias, John Stride (Natural England)
2024 - 2028. NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) SCENARIO Doctoral Training Programme “Mitigating against recreational disturbances on songbirds in a National Park" £90,000.
Lead applicant: Becks Spake, University of Reading.
Co-applicants: Jen Clements (Forest Research), Brian Pickles, Manuela-Gonzalez-Suarez (University of Reading).
2022 - 2023. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) "Discipline Hopping for Sustainability Science". £20,946
Principal investigator: Becks Spake, University of Reading.
Co-investigator: Dr Rodrigo Perez-Vega, University of Reading.
2022- 2025. U.K. Government Nature for Climate Fund (Defra): “Impacts of development on ancient woodland”. £485,790
Principal investigator: Dr Chloe Bellamy, Forest Research.
Co-investigators/research partners: Becks Spake (University of Reading), Dr Nadia Barsoum (Forest Research), Dr Alice Broom (Forest Research).
2022 - 2023. NERC Exploring the Frontiers: "TRansferablE Ecology for a changing world". £99,936
Principal investigator: Becks Spake, University of Reading.
Partners: Prof Rupert Seidl (Technical University of Munich), Prof James Bullock (UKCEH).
2022 - 2025. NERC/ESRC Future of UK Treescapes program: ‘iDeer: An Integrated Deer Management Platform’. £512,836
Principal investigator: Becks Spake, University of Reading.
Co-investigators: Dr Freya St John and Dr Graeme Shannon (Bangor University), Prof Felix Eigenbrod (University of Southampton), Dr Chloe Bellamy and Dr Robin Gill (Forest Research).
Partners: Paul Orsi and George Dennison (Sylva Foundation), Dr Chris Nichols (Woodland Trust) and Lee Oliver (Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust).
2022 - 2022. NERC SCENARIO Summer Research Placement Studentship, "InterEco" £2,812
Principal investigator: Becks Spake, University of Reading.
Past funding:
2020 DAIWA Foundation Small Grant, workshop grant, (PI) £5,000
2020 The Great British Sasakawa Foundation, workshop grant (PI) £5,000
2019 RENKEI (British Council), workshop grant (PI) £5,000
2019 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science BRIDGE Fellowship, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, (PI) £5,553
2018 South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership studentship (co-I), £95,000
2017 Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund, Uni. Southampton, UK, Seed funding grant for a workshop with academics and NGOs in Malawi (co-I) £4,900
2016 Research Stimulus Fund, Uni. Southampton (named postdoc) £9,664
2015 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Pre-Doctoral fellowship, Graduate School of Agriculture/ Kyoto University/ Japan, (PI) £3200
2014 British Mycological Society, laboratory equipment grant £1000
2012/2013 British Mycological Society, field equipment grants (2×£300) Collaborators University of Southampton; Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA); Cardiff University; University of Reading; Swansea University; Woodland Trust; Charles Dutton & Co. Woodland Management