Professor Kathy Hodder

Professor Kathy Hodder is Head of Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at Bournemouth University. She is a conservation ecologist who has worked for over 25 years in research, practical conservation, and education. Kathy began her career in the NGO sector in the early 1990s, working with Mauritian wildlife and then returned to the UK to begin a 13-year research career with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) before moving to Bournemouth University in 2007.

With broad research interests, Kathy has an overall focus on links between science, policy and practice and output from her from research on topics as diverse as species translocations, ecosystem services, landscape scale conservation and rewilding have contributed to development of national guidelines. She is passionate about knowledge sharing and the effective communication of conservation science.