Bio

Gabrielle is a dedicated biodiversity conservation professional. She has an in depth understanding of conservation from the bottom up with experience in local community biological monitoring projects up to projects that are implementing EU-level policy strategies.

She is experienced in fundraising at the UK national and European level for conservation and community-based initiatives, in biological monitoring of plants, insects, birds and mammals, in data management, processing and analysis, in team management, team leadership and stakeholder collaboration.

She has worked in conservation at various levels; as a science communicator and public engagement professional, as an IUCN Red List Assessor and Reviewer, as a Project Manager (of knowledge gathering projects, knowledge dissemination projects and on the ground conservation) and in nature restoration projects. She has excellent experience as a communicator, with extensive experience as a public speaker to a wide-variety of audiences on subjects regarding nature conservation, biological processes and systems and environmental policy.

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Gabrielle is currently a PhD Researcher at the University of York, in Professor Elva Robinson's Ant Lab, and is investigating the role of meadow ants in the restoration of species-rich grasslands. She is also the Red List Authority Coordinator for the Species Survival Commission Ant Specialist Group and is the host of podcast, OutDoing.

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Gabrielle is passionate about the natural world and the place of people within it.

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She is one four children from a rather loud Scottish-Maltese family. She loves live music, being on a bicycle and long-distance train travel.