Room: G18, Thoday Building
Email: [email protected]
Tel No: +44 (0) 1248 382 288

Twitter: @Simon_Willcock

Profiles:

• Google Scholar profile
• LinkedIn profile
• Mendeley profile
• ResearchGate profile

Projects:

My projects focus on the interaction between people and nature, often using innovative methods (e.g. smartphones, and machine learning).

I am an interdisciplinary scientist, keen on producing real-world outputs that can be applied in numerous policy and business contexts. My particular interests focus on the interactions between people and nature, particularly within the tropics. Key subject areas include:

• Adaptation
• Climate Change
• Ecosystem Services
• Land use/cover change
• Migration
• Resilience
• Tipping points

My projects focus on ecosystems services (the benefits humans derive from nature) in rural and urban areas, using innovative methods (e.g. smartphones; https://msds.tools/). 

Supervisor of seven PhD students.

Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team member

Elected member of university Senate

I welcome applications for postgraduate research (e.g. PhD, MRes, etc) that cover my areas of interest. These include: 

• Adaptation
• Climate Change
• Ecosystem Services
• Land use/cover change
• Migration
• Resilience
• Tipping points

Within these areas, I have a wide range of interests, and possible projects might include:

1. Using virtual reality to better understand cultural ecosystem services.
2. Using machine learning to up-scale social survey data collection via smartphones
3. The role biodiversity plays in tipping points

and many more!