Emma Underwood
Research interests
Doctoral research: I am developing my skills as a spatial ecologist. I am interested in using process-based approaches to model future range shifts of endemic, vulnerable plant species in response to climatic, land use and land cover changes in Madagascar.
Projects
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(2020-2025): Modelling the role of multiple global change drivers on plant range shifts in a Biodiversity Hotspot (vorläufiger PhD Titel)
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What does the future hold for Biodiversity Hotspots?
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(2023–2025): BirdWatch
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(2019–2020): Re wilding the City: Using Circuitscape as a Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Urbanscape Conservation Mitigation Strategies (Masterarbeit)
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Emma Underwood
Grants
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2022: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Postgraduate Researcher Award with support from Albert Reckitt Award and Dudley Stamp Memorial Award
Academic career
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(Sept 2023–Jan 2025): HiWi Research Assistant (part-time), Ecology/Macroecology, University of Potsdam
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(2020–2023): GIS Lecturer (external & part-time), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Conservation of Forest Bidiversity (ConFoBi)
Professional career
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(2017–2019): GIS Technical Instructor, University of the West of England (UWE), UK
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(2013–2017): GIS Specialist, Ecotricity (Renewables/Environmental Consultancy), UK
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(2013): GIS Technician, Local Government, UK
Volunteering
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(2022–2023): Women+ in Geospatial Mentorship Programme (Mentor)
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(2020–present): GIS Support and Deployment Volunteer, MapAction
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(2019): GIS Specialist, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (Cotswold Canals Trust)
(2018, 2019): Assistant Warden, Skomer Island, Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales