Biography
I completed my undergraduate in Education with Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge and then took my MSc in Applied Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia. I then worked on the British Ecological Society’s Policy team in 2019-2020. In 2021, I joined the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York for my PhD, where I used museum collections to examine long-term changes in tropical butterflies in response to climate change and land-use change. In Oct 2024, I joined Darwin College and the Insect Ecology Group as a Henslow Research Fellow and I am using the Zoology Museum’s Insect Collection to examine two centuries of change in UK macromoths and how it relates to anthropogenic changes (e.g. street lighting, land-use and climate).
Research
I am a conservation scientist interested in understanding how biodiversity and ecosystems work, especially urban and more novel ecosystems, and in turn understanding how best to reconcile human development and conservation. I am particularly fascinated by insects, and using museum collections to understand long-term biodiversity change and inform effective conservation action today.
Publications
Ki, Beale, Huertas & Hill. (2024) Examining the vulnerability of endemic tropical butterflies to climate change, Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17(5), 10.1111/icad.12744
Ki, Pain, Gill & Green. (2023) The relationship between Mute Swan Cygnus olor population trends in Great Britain and environmental change, Bird Study, 70(3) 10.1080/00063657.2023.2239554.
Yau, Jones, Tsang, Xing, Corlett, Roehrdanz, Lohman, Lee, Hai, Chowdhury, Hill, Badon, Gan, Basset, Chen, Benedick, Jain, Ki, Kunte, Nakamura, Vu, Scriven, Hughes & Bonebrake. (2025) Spatial occurrence records and distributions of tropical Asian butterflies, Scientific Data. 12(1004),10.1038/s41597-025-05333-w
Chang, Ki, Anderson, Brides, Clark, Ding, Leung, Li, Melville, Phillips, Weston, Yang & Green. (2021) Numbers of Spoon-billed Sandpipers in Jiangsu Province, China, during the post-breeding moult in relation to recent changes in the intertidal zone, Wader Study, 128(2), 10.18194/ws.00233.
Ki, McKain, Clavey, Stafford, Montgomery, Morrison-Bell & Chamberlain. (2021) Introduction, in Stafford, R. et al. (eds.) Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change in the UK: A Report by the British Ecological Society. London, UK. pp. 13-22.
