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Professor Jane Stout

VP for Biodiversity & Climate Action (Provost's Office)
Professor of Ecology (Botany) (Botany)
Professor of Ecology (Botany) (Trinity Sustainability Office)
      
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Professor Jane Stout

VP for Biodiversity & Climate Action (Provost's Office)

 

Professor of Ecology (Botany) (Botany)
Professor of Ecology (Botany) (Trinity Sustainability Office)


Jane is an internationally renowned expert on pollinator and pollination ecology, and a prominent voice for biodiversity and its value. Her research seeks to understand how land management practices, including agriculture and urbanisation, affect ecological processes and the benefits of nature for humans. Jane works across disciplines, and with a broad range of stakeholders in public and private organisations, to improve environmental policy and practice. She leads a large team of researchers in the Plant-Animal Interactions Research group in Botany, in the School of Natural Sciences in Trinity. She is co-founder and former Chair of the Board of the Irish Forum on Natural Capital www.naturalcapitalireland.com, and co-founder and deputy Chair of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan www.pollinators.ie. She is currently President of the Royal Entomological Society www.royensoc.co.uk. Blog: campusbuzz.blog
  Bees   Behavioural and evolutionary ecology   Biodiversity   Biodiversity and Conservation   Biological Invasion   Ecology   Entomology   Environmental biology   Insects   Invasive Alien Species   Land Use Planning/Policy   natural capital   Pollination   Pollinators   Sustainable Agriculture   Weeds
Project Title
 For-ES Accounting for Forest Ecosystem Services in Ireland
From
2021
To
2025
Summary
Forestry provides timber, but also supports biodiversity and supplies other public benefits, including carbon capture to tackle climate change. To provide a sustainable supply of multiple benefits from Irish forests, this project will co-develop tools for foresters to enable robust and transparent management decision-making. A Natural Capital Accounting approach will be used at specific forest sites, which will enable quantification of forestry stocks (the amount, location and condition of forest habitats), and flows of ecosystem services (in terms of commercial timber production, carbon sequestration, water retention, biodiversity and recreation) and benefits. By assessing the quantity, quality and location of forest stocks, flows of commercial timber production, carbon sequestration, water retention, biodiversity and recreation will be determined. This will be modelled under different land management scenarios to provide managers will the information they need to fulfil multiple objectives at both site and estate level. This is the first project to combine Natural Capital Accounting with Bayesian Belief Network modelling of ecosystem service supply to support a structured decision-making approach in an Irish context.
Funding Agency
DAFM
Project Title
 Nature+ Energy
From
2020
To
2024
Summary
Nature+Energy is founded on the idea that wind farms have the potential to provide so much more than renewable energy. If managed properly, the biodiversity on onshore wind farms has the potential to take additional carbon out of the atmosphere, to improve the resilience of ecosystems to climate change and to enhance the provision of ecosystem services, such as pollination, water filtration and habitat provision. There is much potential to enhance nature"s contributions to people through improving our understanding of how habitat quality, diversity and connectivity can be enhanced by wind farm land-management for conservation.Nature+Energy will develop new ways of accounting for the value of nature on onshore wind farms. We will design a state-of-the-art environmental monitoring system that will revolutionise how we measure and monitor biodiversity on wind farms. We will develop a sector-specific Natural Capital Accounts, Decision Support Tools and Biodiversity Action Plans to facilitate the enhancement of biodiversity and to mitigate the effects of wind farms on key species. A graduate training programme will be co-developed by industry and academia partners with the goal of building human capacity in natural capital accounting, and will be key in delivering the upskilling required to facilitate Ireland"s transition to a net-zero society and economy. By focusing on solutions for overcoming the twin problems of climate change and biodiversity loss, this project gives us the opportunity to showcase how researchers and industry can work together to develop genuine win-win scenarios for the economy, society and the environment. https://www.marei.ie/project/natureenergy/
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
MaREI
Project Title
 Farm Zero C
From
2019
To
2023
Summary
Farm Zero C is a collaboration between Carbery, BiOrbic, UCD, TCD, MTU, Teagasc and others to create a climate-neutral, economically-viable dairy farm. The project takes a holistic approach, combining a range of technologies and practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the productivity and resilience of the farm. https://biorbic.com/farm-zero-c/
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
BiOrbic
Project Type
Challenge Prize
Project Title
 FOREST: Reimagining relations with nature
From
2021
To
2025
Summary
FOREST brings together research leaders across Botany, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Geography and Statistics to reimagine our relations with nature. People and nature are not separate - we are dependent on nature as our life support system. The systematic failure of economic, political, and financial systems to take nature into account has resulted in climate and biodiversity crises. Ireland is now seeking to transition away from highly carbon-dependent social and economic practices, towards sustainable practices, systems and behaviours that support the coexistence of flourishing human systems and natural environments. This project will investigate how to assign value to the natural world to create investment initiatives with ecological benefits, to encourage investors to actively invest in assets with environmental and societal benefits. It will examine the behavioural aspects and financial investment incentives that can be linked to the protection or restoration of forests. However, placing a financial value on nature is not enough to preserve it, there must also be policy initiatives, and stronger legal mechanisms which recognise the multiple benefits of forests such as carbon capture, biodiversity habitat, and recreation. The financial industry is beset by a focus on short term gains, caused by performance metrics, remuneration incentives and incomplete measures of value. Policy supports can to some extent address these market failures by creating incentives which incorporate the long term non-market and socio-cultural benefits of nature. To correctly design incentives, an understanding of different perspectives on the values and benefits of nature in the widest sense is key, particularly in terms of impacting on individual and collective action. Actions taken have consequences for environment, people, and economies, but are often only assessed through a single lens. Implementing the right action in the right place urgently requires a new kind of multi-disciplinary dynamic, and a way of integrating data measured on different scales. This research challenge is inherently multidisciplinary in nature and will be conducted in conjunction with researchers across a range of relevant disciplines. FOREST will use the increase in forestry in Ireland as a model system to explore the challenges associated with addressing climate and biodiversity issues, and examine potential solutions through a multi-disciplinary lens. It will recruit a team of PhD candidates to study as part of an interdisciplinary team to address complex human-nature relations and the social-economic-ecological challenges and opportunities associated with transitioning away from unsustainable to sustainable development pathways.
Funding Agency
TCD E3 Kinsella Multidisciplinary Challenge
Project Title
 Enhancing pollinator diversity through biodiversity-friendly management actions
From
Apr 2020
To
Mar 2024
Summary
Pollinators provide a crucial ecosystem service by facilitating the reproduction of wild plants, thus supporting a vast majority of global plant diversity. Pollinators are also important to food security, ensuring the successful pollination of many commercially important crops. However, pollinators are at risk, with 50% of Ireland's bee species in decline and 30% of species threatened with extinction. Agricultural intensification and other industrial developments are a major driver of decline, with an associated loss of forage plants and nesting habitats, contamination of soils and forage with pollutants, and disease transfer between wild and managed bee species. To address these issues, on-farm biodiversity enhancement measures and other schemes have been proposed. Many of these schemes are part of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan. These measures need testing for efficacy and economic sustainability, in commercial situations, both on farms and on other agri-food industrial sites. This project will survey pollinators and their forage plants on working farms of the Enterprise Partner and their suppliers, both where biodiversity management actions have been implemented, and where they have not. In addition, similar surveys will be conducted on industrial sites belonging to the Enterprise Partner. Cost-benefit analysis will be conducted for all financial and non-financial costs and benefits of biodiversity enhancement implementation. This will provide crucial ecological information on farmland biodiversity in Ireland and inform the business case for further biodiversity enhancement and pollinator conservation. As such, the project contributes to national policy on biodiversity conservation, natural capital assessment, and business and biodiversity.
Funding Agency
IRC and Kepak
Programme
Enterprise Partnership
Project Type
PhD Scholarship
Person Months
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Ireland's National Bioeconomy Forum Expert Advisory Group member 2021
The Common Agricultural Policy post-2020: Irish Scientists Workshop member 2020
National Parks and Wildlife review Chair 2021
EU H2020 'Safeguard' project External Advisory Board Member 2021
Global Coalition of the Willing 'Promote Pollinators' Irish member representative 2018
Founder, former Chair and current Director, Irish Forum on Natural Capital www.naturalcapitalireland.com 2014
Co-leader of the Irish Pollinator Research Network 2016
Co-founder and Deputy Chair All-Ireland Pollinator Plan www.pollinators.ie 2014
External PhD Examiner University of Bristol (2006, 2017, 2018), Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway (2008), University of Northampton (2009, 2015), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2009), University of Reading (2010, 2016), Queens University Belfast (2010, 2016), University of Queensland (2012), University of Limerick (2013), University of Southampton (2013), University of Leeds (2013), University of Stirling (2015), University of Newcastle (2016, 2018), University of Helsinki (2016), University of Sussex (2017, 2018, 2022), Leiden University (2017), University of Exeter (2019), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2019) 2006
National Sustainability Research Coordination Group Member 2017
Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Praeger Grants Assessment Committee member 2020
National Horizon 2020 SC-2 Advisory Group member 2016
Journal of Pollination Ecology, co-founder and Editorial Board member 2009
FAO International Pollinator Initiative 2.0 Working Group Member 2017
Management Committee and WP leader COST Action Super-B 2014
External Examiner for MSc (Research) University of Nottingham (2015), University of KwaZulu Natal (2018) 2015
Future Earth Ireland National Committee Member 2016
Royal Irish Academy nomination to European Academies' Science Advisory Council working group on Ecosystem services, Agriculture and Neonicotinoids https://easac.eu/fileadmin/Reports/Easac_15_ES_web_complete_01.pdf 2013
Overall Rapporteur and Organising Committee member for European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Colloquium on "Towards holistic approaches to the risk assessment of multiple stressors in bees", Parma Italy 2013
Trustee, Bumblebee Conservation Trust 2013
BMC Ecology Journal Editorial Board Member 2013
External Examiner for MSc in Ecological Management and Conservation Biology Queens University Belfast 2011
PLoS ONE Journal Associate Editor 2008
Consultant, Bee conservation workshop - creating red data list for Irish bees, Trinity College Dublin 2005
Member, National Platform for Biodiversity Research, Ireland 2005
Associated Partner in EU integrated project on Assessing LArge scale Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods (ALARM) 2005
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
Natural Capital Ireland (The Irish Forum on Natural Capital) 2014 2023
British Ecological Society 1996 present
Royal Entomological Society 2015 present
Ecological Society of America 2014
International Bee Research Association 1998 2005
International Union for the Study of Social Insects (British Section) 1998 2003
Cini, Elena and Potts, Simon G. and Senapathi, Deepa and Albrecht, Matthias and Arafah, Karim and Askri, Dalel and Bocquet, Michel and Bulet, Philippe and Costa, Cecilia and De la Rúa, Pilar and Klein, Alexandra-Maria and Knauer, Anina and MÀnd, Marika and Raimets, Risto and Schweiger, Oliver and Stout, Jane C. and Breeze, Tom D., Beekeepers†perceptions toward a new omics tool for monitoring bee health in Europe, PLoS ONE, 20, (1), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Murray, Anne F. and Leonhardt, Sara D. and Stout, Jane C. and Ruedenauer, Fabian A. and Vanderplanck, Maryse and Russo, Laura, Pollen-Derived Fatty Acids and Amino Acids Mediate Variance in Pollinator Visitation, Journal of Chemical Ecology, 51, (1), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Green Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Tourbez, Clément and GekiÚre, Antoine and Bottero, Irene and Chauzat, Marie-Pierre and Cini, Elena and Corvucci, Francesca and de Miranda, Joachim R. and Prisco, Gennaro Di and Dominik, Christophe and Grillenzoni, Francesca V. and Hodge, Simon and Kiljanek, Tomasz and Knauer, Anina and Laurent, Marion and Martínez-López, Vicente and Raimets, Risto and Schwarz, Janine M. and Senapathi, Deepa and Serra, Giorgia and Tamburini, Giovanni and Wintermantel, Dimitry and Brown, Mark J.F. and Albrecht, Matthias and Costa, Cecilia and Rúa, Pilar De la and Klein, Alexandra-Maria and MÀnd, Marika and Potts, Simon G. and Rundlöf, Maj and Schweiger, Oliver and Stout, Jane C. and Michez, Denis, Variation in the pollen diet of managed bee species across European agroecosystems, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 383, 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Lanuza, Jose B. and Knight, Tiffany M. and Montes-Perez, Nerea and Glenny, Will and Acuña, Paola and Albrecht, Matthias and Artamendi, Maddi and Badenhausser, Isabelle and Bennett, Joanne M. and Biella, Paolo and Bommarco, Ricardo and Cappellari, Andree and Castro, Sílvia and Clough, Yann and Colom, Pau and Costa, Joana and Cyrille, Nathan and de Manincor, Natasha and Dominguez-Lapido, Paula and Dominik, Christophe and Dupont, Yoko L. and Feldmann, Reinart and Felten, Emeline and Ferrero, Victoria and Fiordaliso, William and Fisogni, Alessandro and Fitzpatrick, à na and Galloni, Marta and Gaspar, Hugo and Gazzea, Elena and Goia, Irina and Gómez-Martínez, Carmelo and González-Estévez, Miguel A. and González-Varo, Juan Pedro and Grass, Ingo and Hadrava, JiŠí and HautekÚete, Nina and Hederström, Veronica and Heleno, Ruben and Hervias-Parejo, Sandra and Heuschele, Jonna M. and Hoiss, Bernhard and Holzschuh, Andrea and HopfenmÃŒller, Sebastian and Iriondo, José M. and Jauker, Birgit and Jauker, Frank and Jersáková, Jana and Kallnik, Katharina and Karise, Reet and Kleijn, David and Klotz, Stefan and Krausl, Theresia and KÃŒhn, Elisabeth and Lara-Romero, Carlos and Larkin, Michelle and Laurent, Emilien and Lázaro, Amparo and Librán-Embid, Felipe and Liu, Yicong and Lopes, Sara and López-Núñez, Francisco and Loureiro, João and Magrach, Ainhoa and MÀnd, Marika and Marini, Lorenzo and Mas, Rafel Beltran and Massol, François and Maurer, Corina and Michez, Denis and Molina, Francisco P. and Morente-López, Javier and Mullen, Sarah and Nakas, Georgios and Neuenkamp, Lena and Nowak, Arkadiusz and O'Connor, Catherine J. and O'Rourke, Aoife and Ã-ckinger, Erik and Olesen, Jens M. and Opedal, Ã~ystein H. and Petanidou, Theodora and Piquot, Yves and Potts, Simon G. and Power, Eileen F. and Proesmans, Willem and Rakosy, Demetra and Reverté, Sara and Roberts, Stuart P. M. and Rundlöf, Maj and Russo, Laura and Schatz, Bertrand and Scheper, Jeroen and Schweiger, Oliver and Serra, Pau Enric and Siopa, Catarina and Smith, Henrik G. and Stanley, Dara and Å tefan, Valentin and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf and Stout, Jane C. and Sutter, Louis and Å vara, Elena Motivans and Å wierszcz, Sebastian and Thompson, Amibeth and Traveset, Anna and Trefflich, Annette and Tropek, Robert and Tscharntke, Teja and Vanbergen, Adam J. and Vilà, Montserrat and VujiÄ , Ante and White, Cian and Wickens, Jennifer B. and Wickens, Victoria B. and Winsa, Marie and Zoller, Leana and Bartomeus, Ignasi, EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34, (2), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 5; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
King, Emma and Stout, Jane C. and Buckley, Yvonne M. and Donohue, Ian, Ecosystem accounting for biodiversity surrounding windfarms, Journal of Environmental Management, 391, 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Tsang, Toby P N and De Santis, A A Amado and Armas-Quiñonez, Gabriela and Ascher, John S. and à vila-Gómez, Eva Samanta and Báldi, András and Ballare, Kimberly M. and Balzan, Mario V. and Banaszak-Cibicka, Weronika and BÀnsch, Svenja and Basset, Yves and Bates, Adam J. and Baumann, Jessica M. and Beal-Neves, Mariana and Bennett, Ashley and Bezerra, Antonio Diego M and Blochtein, Betina and Bommarco, Riccardo and Brosi, Berry and Burkle, Laura A. and Carvalheiro, Luísa G and Castellanos, Ignacio and Cely-Santos, Marcela and Cohen, Hamutahl and Coulibaly, Drissa and Cunningham, Saul A. and Cusser, Sarah and Dajoz, Isabelle and Delaney, Deborah A. and Del-Val, Ek and Egerer, Monika and Eichhorn, Markus P. and Enríquez, Eunice and Entling, Martin H. and Escobedo-Kenefic, Natalia and Ferreira, Pedro Maria Abreu and Fitch, Gordon and Forrest, Jessica R K and Fournier, Valérie and Fowler, Robert and Freitas, Breno M. and Gaines-Day, Hannah R. and Geslin, Benoît and Ghazoul, Jaboury and Glaum, Paul and Gonzalez-Andujar, Jose L. and González-Chaves, Adrian and Grab, Heather and Gratton, Claudio and Guenat, SolÚne and Gutiérrez-Chacón, Catalina and Hall, Mark A. and Hanley, Mick E. and Hass, Annika and Hennig, Ernest Ireneusz and Hermy, Martin and Hipólito, Juliana and Holzschuh, Andrea and HopfenmÃŒller, Sebastian and Hung, Keng-Lou James and Hylander, Kristoffer and Izquierdo, Jordi and Jamieson, Mary A. and Jauker, Birgit and Javorek, Steve and Jha, Shalene and Klatt, Björn K and Kleijn, David and Klein, Alexandra-Maria and Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anikó and Krauss, Jochen and Kuhlmann, Michael and Landaverde-González, Patricia and Latty, Tanya and Leong, Misha and Lerman, Susannah B. and Liu, Yunhui and Machado, Ana Carolina Pereira and Main, Anson and Mallinger, Rachel and Mandelik, Yael and Marques, Bruno Ferreira and Matteson, Kevin and McCune, Frédéric and Meng, Ling-Zeng and Metzger, Jean Paul and Montoya-Pfeiffer, Paula María and Morales, Carolina and Morandin, Lora and Morrison, Jane and Mudri-StojniÄ , Sonja and Nalinrachatakan, Pakorn and Norfolk, Olivia and Otieno, Mark and Park, Mia G. and Philpott, Stacy M. and Pisanty, Gideon and Plascencia, Montserrat and Potts, Simon G. and Power, Eileen F. and Prendergast, Kit and Quistberg, Robyn D. and de Lacerda Ramos, Davi and Rech, André Rodrigo and Reynolds, Victoria and Richards, Miriam H. and Roberts, Stuart P M and Sabatino, Malena and SamnegÃ¥rd, Ulrika and Sardiñas, Hillary and Sánchez-Echeverría, Karina and Saturni, Fernanda Teixeira and Scheper, Jeroen and Sciligo, Amber R. and Sidhu, C Sheena and Spiesman, Brian J. and Sritongchuay, Tuanjit and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf and Stein, Katharina and Stewart, Alyssa B. and Stout, Jane C. and Taki, Hisatomo and Tangtorwongsakul, Pornpimon and Threlfall, Caragh G. and Tinoco, Carla Faleiro and Tscharntke, Teja and Turo, Katherine J. and Vaidya, Chatura and Vandame, Rémy and Vergara, Carlos H. and Viana, Blandina F. and Vides-Borrell, Eric and Warrit, Natapot and Webb, Elisabeth and Westphal, Catrin and Wickens, Jennifer B. and Williams, Neal M. and Williams, Nicholas S G and Wilson, Caleb J. and Wu, Panlong and Youngsteadt, Elsa and Zou, Yi and Ponisio, Lauren C. and Bonebrake, Timothy C., Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α- But Not β- and γ-Diversity of Bees, Global change biology, 31, (1), 2025, pe70006 , Notes: [Cited by: 6], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Gibbons, A., Martini, F., White, C., King, E., Stout, J.C., Donohue, I. & Parnell, A., ExActR: A Shiny app for creating ecosystem extent accounts, Ecological Informatics, 87, 2025, p103072 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Aurélie Babin, Frank Schurr, Sabine Delannoy, Patrick Fach, Minh Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, Stéphanie Bougeard, Joachim R de Miranda, Maj Rundlöf, Dimitry Wintermantel, Matthias Albrecht, Eleanor Attridge, Irene Bottero, Elena Cini, Cecilia Costa, Pilar De la Rúa, Gennaro Di Prisco, Christophe Dominik, Daniel Dzul, Simon Hodge, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Jessica Knapp, Anina C Knauer, Marika Mänd, Vicente Martínez-López, Piotr Medrzycki, Maria Helena Pereira-Peixoto, Simon G Potts, Risto Raimets, Oliver Schweiger, Deepa Senapathi, José Serrano, Jane C Stout, Giovanni Tamburini, Mark JF Brown, Marion Laurent, Marie-Pierre Rivière, Marie-Pierre Chauzat, Eric Dubois, Distribution of infectious and parasitic agents among three sentinel bee species across European agricultural landscapes, Scientific Reports, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Gorman, C.E., Martini, F., Conroy, K., King, E., Mcleod, R., Obst, C., Stout, J.C., Donohue, I. & Buckley, Y.M., A decision methodology for site-level ecosystem accounting, Journal of Environmental Management, 366, 2024, p121814 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dalel Askri, Mathilde Pottier, Karim Arafah, Sébastien N Voisin, Simon Hodge, Jane C Stout, Christophe Dominik, Oliver Schweiger, Giovanni Tamburini, Maria Helena Pereira-Peixoto, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Vicente Martínez López, Pilar De la Rúa, Elena Cini, Simon G Potts, Janine M Schwarz, Anina C Knauer, Matthias Albrecht, Risto Raimets, Reet Karise, Gennaro di Prisco, Kjell Ivarsson, Glenn P Svensson, Oleksandr Ronsevych, Jessica L Knapp, Maj Rundlöf, Piero Onorati, Joachim R de Miranda, Michel Bocquet, Philippe Bulet, A blood test to monitor bee health across a European network of agricultural sites of different land-use by MALDI BeeTyping mass spectrometry, Science of The Total Environment, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Jane Stout, Maire Nic an Bhaird, Laoise Ni Chleirigh, Thomas P. Curran, Catherine Farrell, Nathan T. Wright, Beo, Raja and the Butterfly Effect, 2025, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Fitzpatrick U, Stout JC and Steering Group, ' All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-25', National Biodiversity Data Centre, 2021, -, Protocol or guideline, PUBLISHED
Stout J.C., Ó Cinnéide, M. , Review of the NPWS 2021: Key findings and recommendations. Report to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS),, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH), Government of Ireland., 2021, Report, APPROVED
King, U, and Stout, J.C., Discovering Trinity's Biodiversity: Report from the Biodiversity Audit Pilot Study, Trinity College Dublin, 2021, Report, PUBLISHED
Gaughran A and Stout J, Biodiversity Audit at Áras an Uachtaráin Final Report, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED
Fitzpatrick U, Stout JC and Steering Group, 'All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2015-2020', National Biodiversity Data Centre, 2015, -, Protocol or guideline, PUBLISHED
EFSA , Towards holistic approaches to the risk assessment of multiple stressors in bees. EFSA Scientific Colloquium Summary Report 18, European Food Safety Authority, November, 2013, Notes: [doi: 10.2805/53269 http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/supporting/doc/509e.pdf ], Report, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Won most cited review award from the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GFÖ) (2021) 2021
British Ecological Society Ecological Engagement Prize winner 2017
Elected Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society 2015
Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2011
My research explores relationships in nature, and between nature and people. I address causes and consequences of biodiversity loss across sectors and scales, applying my work to global challenges of climate change, food security, and human health. I make a unique and substantive contribution to pollinator ecology research and am at the forefront of this field worldwide. By disentangling relationships between pollinators and human activity, beyond crop pollination, my research enables more sustainable landscapes and livelihoods, and improved well-being. I founded the Irish Pollinator Research Network, and my research has shaped the field in a fundamental and enduring manner. This is evidenced by the excellent researchers I have trained, and by my research underpinning what was described by the Minister for Heritage as "the most successful conservation strategy in Ireland", the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan. I co-founded and co-lead this initiative, which has influenced management at thousands of sites across Ireland, and inspires action across the EU and beyond. Additionally, my research explores the value of ecosystems to society, and I have spear-headed transdisciplinary research on the natural capital approach, uniting environment, society and economy, as a mechanism for nature restoration. I have developed Natural Capital Accounting research, and my INCASE project has been pronounced as "game changing" by the Central Statistics Office. In the last five years, I have secured >€4million in research funding, from national and international sources. Last year, I led a multidisciplinary team to win a Trinity E3 Kinsella Challenge-Based award, led a collaboration with industry to win a DAFM Thematic Research award, and played leadership roles in the successful SFI Zero Emissions Challenge €2 million Prize and Nature+ Energy bids. I continue my trajectory of research excellence and impact by publishing in the world"s top journals (127 peer-reviewed journal papers, 16 so far in 2022, often with international authors, 83% in Q1 journals, including Nature and Science, and >5,000 citations). My reputation as a world-class researcher has earned me invitations to join collaborations all over the world, including in tropical Africa, where my work will improve the livelihoods of some of the world"s poorest people by changing habitat management. My research crosses disciplinary boundaries and sectors, and justifies my standing as a prominent voice for nature and its value in academia, policy, regulation, and practice. I founded Natural Capital Ireland, which, under my leadership, has successfully developed key research and action for business and policy in Ireland. My unique research profile has earned me invitations to lead initiatives (including Platform-Lead in the second phase of SFI Bioeconomy Centre, BiOrbic) and speak at national and international research, policy and public fora (including the EU Commission and Oireachtas Committees). I have led research that has, and will, transform the management of nature, from individual sites (e.g. Áras an Uachtaráin and Trinity Campus) to the national level (e.g. my review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, which has the responsibility for Ireland"s nature conservation, led to its budget being doubled in 2022).