Leadership Team
| Name | Position | Bio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Dave Hodgson | Head of Department | I am proud to be head of this amazing Department, and look forward to welcoming you should you visit us. | D.J.Hodgson@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Sarah Hodge | Deputy Head of Department | I lead on widening participation activities within the department and provide pastoral support to International Students. | s.j.hodge@exeter.ac.uk |
| Professor Angus Buckling | Deputy Head of Department | I work on the evolutionary ecology of microbes, primarily by studying evolution and ecology in real-time. | a.j.buckling@exeter.ac.uk |
| Lisa Morgan | Department Manager | My role is to foster collaboration between academic colleagues and professional service departments. | l.j.morgan@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Chris Laing | Director of Education & Student Experience | I have been an E&S lecturer at Exeter since 2013, and Director of Education and Student Experience since 2022. | c.g.laing@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Andrew Young | Co-Director of Research & Impact | I use long-term field studies of wild social vertebrates and laboratory studies of social microbes to advance our understand of sociality and ageing | A.J.Young@exeter.ac.uk |
| Professor Chris Bass | Co-Director of Research & Impact | I use transcriptomics, genomics and post-genomic functional approaches to understand adaptive evolution in insects. | C.Bass@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Jason Chapman | Director of Global Engagement | I am an Associate Professor of Movement Ecology, studying global patterns of insect migration. | j.chapman2@exeter.ac.uk |
| Professor Martin Stevens | Director of Business & Engagement | I am a Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology and Director of Business, Engagement, and Innovation for the Centre for Ecology and Conservation. | martin.stevens@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Barbara Tschirren | Director of Early Career Researchers | I am a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Ecology and Early Career Researcher Officer for the Centre for Ecology and Conservation. | b.tschirren@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Nick Royle | Director of Postgraduate Research | My research centres on how organisms respond and adapt to changes in the environments they experience. | n.j.royle@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Andy Pye | Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | I am passionate about creating an inclusive and supportive environment for staff and students. I am also a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE. | a.j.pye@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr MD Sharma | Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | I am also Co-Chair of the institutional Race Equality Group. | m.d.sharma@exeter.ac.uk |
| Dr Bram Kuijper | Director of Student Recruitment |
I focus on broadening international attention to our degree programmes. |
A.L.W.Kuijper@exeter.ac.uk |
