Beth Bridge (BSc, MSc (R))

Thesis title: Exploring wood pastures in Scotland for biodiversity and society

Biography

Background

Beth is a second-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh & Scotland's Rural College, researching how trees can increase biodiversity on farms and in the wider landscape.

She uses bioacoustics to survey bats & birds in wood pastures, where trees are grown in livestock fields. Beth is also investigating the effectiveness of bioacoustics for recording bats in farm environments, with the aim of improving methods for ecological surveys.

Beth is also investigating how landowners & land managers perceive wood pastures, and whether this impacts on low planting rates of farm trees in Scotland.

Beth holds a BSc in Environmental Science from the University of Birmingham, and an MSc by research in Animal Behavioural Ecology from the University of Bristol. She has previously worked as a freshwater ecologist for the Environment Agency, and as a research assistant in climate change science at Forest Research.

Undergraduate teaching

Modules in Agroforestry 

Postgraduate teaching

Guest lecturer - Bioacoustics 

Research summary

I'm interested in how agroforestry may be part of the 'just climate transition' in Scotland, and how we will accurately monitor biodiversity in our changing landscape, with a particular focus on bioacoustics. 

Current research interests

Agroforestry, bioacoustics, methods optimisation
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