Claire Ozanne is an
insect ecologist in the UK, she is Professor of Ecology and Deputy Director and Provost at SOAS.
Education and career
Ozanne was educated at the
University of Oxford where she did a BA and then a DPhil in
Agriculture and
Forest Sciences
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. Th ...
graduating in 1991.
She was Head of Biological & Health Sciences and also Assistant Dean (Learning & Teaching) and from 2010 to 2020 was Vice Provost (Academic Partnerships and International) at the University of Roehampton.
Between 2017 and 2019 Ozanne was Principal of
Heythrop College, University of London, she was appointed to oversee the college's 'orderly closure.
In September 2020 she moved to
SOAS
SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury are ...
as Deputy Director and Provost.
Research
Ozanne's research looks at insects in habitats affected by human activities, in particular in
temperate and
tropical forests. She has surveyed insects all around the world, including in Ethiopia which she talked about to
Brett Westwood
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on the
BBC Radio 4's Saving Species programme.
She helped found the Global Canopy Programme
and has written several book chapters on insects on forests:
* Chapter 4 ''Sampling methods for forest understory vegetation,'' & Chapter 7 ''Techniques and methods for sampling canopy vegetation,'' in ''Insect sampling in forest ecosystems'', edited by
Simon R Leather, published by
Blackwell Blackwell may refer to:
Places
;Canada
* Blackwell, Ontario
;United Kingdom
* Blackwell, County Durham, England
* Blackwell, Carlisle, Cumbria, England
* Blackwell (historic house), South Lakeland, Cumbria, England
* Blackwell, Bolsover, Alfre ...
in 2005.
* Chapter 14 C''ollecting arthropods and arthropod remains for primate studies'', in ''Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology: A Practical Guide, e''dited by Joanna M. Setchell &
Deborah J. Curtis
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Before her tenure at ISU, Curtis was the University of Central M ...
, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.
* Chapter 10 ''Canopies and climate change'', in ''Treetops at Risk: Challenges of Global Canopy Ecology and Conservation,'' edited by Margaret Lowman, Soubadra Devy & T. Ganesh, published by
Springer in 2013.
Awards and honours
Ozanne is a principal fellow of the
Higher Education Academy.
References
External links
SOAS profile
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British ecologists
British entomologists
21st-century British scientists
21st-century British women scientists
Women entomologists
Women ecologists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academics of the University of Roehampton