I am a Research Fellow with the Scottish Shark Group, contributing to the Multi-disciplinary Ocean Sensing for Adaptive International Conservation (MOSAIC) project, which seeks to strengthen baseline ecological knowledge and advance adaptive conservation across the cross-border marine environment of Ireland and Northern Ireland. My research focuses on understanding the environmental and biological processes that shape the spatio-temporal distribution and movement behaviour of marine megafauna. My work centres on integrating biotelemetry with complementary life-history data to quantify movement dynamics and habitat associations of sharks and rays in the North-east Atlantic. Through this work, I aim to inform adaptive marine spatial planning and support effective management of these vulnerable meso- and apex predators in a rapidly changing ocean.

My Ph.D. at the Institute of Marine Science (IMR) in Tromsø, Norway centered on the movement ecology of some of the largest and most vulnerable shark species in Norwegian waters, namely the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), porbeagle (Lamna nasus) and spurdog (Squalus acanthias). My dissertation was part of the collaborative RCN project ‘Sharks on the Move’, which aimed to model species distribution of these three migratory sharks to inform ecosystem-based management under global change.