Simon Dowell Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Chester, United Kingdom

Director of science, education, conservation and research at Chester Zoo

Faculty Of Health And Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University

• Accountable for day to day leadership and management of the Faculty, co-ordination of Faculty strategic development and deputising for the Dean across the full range of Faculty activities at University, local, national.
• Leadership on the following cross-cutting management areas in the Faculty: internationalisation, collaborative partnerships, employer and community engagement, business development, commercialisation and marketing.
• Working closely with other senior colleagues in the University on specific cross-university portfolios and projects in order to contribute to the development of the University Mission and Strategic Plan.
• Making an academic contribution through teaching and research-related activity in my own academic discipline of conservation biology.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

I joined LJMU in 1992 as a lecturer in Conservation Ecology and I taught on and led their Countryside Management and Wildlife Conservation degree courses for a number of years as well as engaging in research on bird ecology and conservation. I led the School of Biological & Earth Sciences as Deputy Director in 2000 then as Director in 2002 until 2008 when.

Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England

Planned, executed and delivered research projects on grey partridge ecology in agricultural ecosystems; organised annual gamebird census in Britain.

Dphil, Zoology

Activities and Societies: Wolfson College rowing team Thesis entitled: The ontogeny of anti-predator behaviour in game bird chicks.

Bsc, Biological Sciences

Activities and Societies: Conservation Society, Community Action