Mark Goddard

Newcastle

Mark is a research ecologist currently working at Newcastle University, UK. Mark has been working on biodiversity conservation in urban environments for over 12 years. He started as a Project Officer at the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, seeking ways to improve the management of urban streams for the water vole, a nationally declining mammal. He then spent three years as an ecological consultant where he furthered his interest in the integration of wildlife features within the built environment. In 2007, he begun a PhD the University of Leeds on the ecological and social drivers of biodiversity in private gardens, and in 2011 he became a researcher on the Urban Pollinators Project, a UK-wide collaborative project researching the ecology and conservation of insect pollinators in cities. His current role combines fieldwork and experiments to investigate the delivery of multiple ecosystem services on urban land designed to have a carbon capture function.