Research Themes

Evolutionary biology

This theme focuses on understanding the evolution of life on Earth for science solutions and sustainable development

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Ecosystems and the environment

This theme works on understanding, managing and engineering how people can best interact with nature

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Centres

Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet

This centre, named after prominent ecologist and conservation biologist Professor Dame Georgina Mace FRS, brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to tackle some of the greatest environmental challenges.

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Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont

This centre aims to create a green revolution in agriculture, rescue threatened species, and restore habitats. It will be launched in Autumn 2022.

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires

This centre aims to provide a step-change in the scientific understanding of what drives wildfires around the world, and what the future might hold for all the natural and human systems influenced by them.

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Other groups active at the Silwood Park Campus include

Research facilities

As well as newly refurbished genomics and microbiology laboratories, the Campus offers unique facilities for field research in woodland, grassland and freshwater habitats. We welcome enquiries from any researcher wishing to set up field experiments (please check here or contact Dr. Catalina Estrada).

Silwood Park Campus has long acted as an international hub for ecological research, and staff and students work at a vast range of sites across all continents.

Seminar Series

Related groups and initiatives

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long-term field studies
Find out the location of our field experiments