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National Trust Annual Research Report 2023-24
This is the second edition of the National Trust Annual Research Report. The report offers an overview of our exciting and evolving portfolio of activities from March 2023 to February 2024, and showcases our national and regional research partnerships, funded and partnered projects, doctoral work, and how we’re building our... -
Doctoral thesis
DNA-based resolution of freshwater arthropod communities and interactions
Freshwater biodiversity is widely considered to be in crisis. The need for new methods to quickly assess and monitor biodiversity is urgent. DNA-based identification of biodiversity offers promising new methods. Compared to monitoring species presence and richness, DNA-based identification of ecological interactions through predator diets has gained much less attention....Davidson, Elizabeth
ecology, Freshwater biodiversity, PhD, and postgraduate research
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Doctoral thesis
An analysis of the dynamics of resource sharing networks in ant colonies
Cooperation ties animals together into social groups that often demonstrate complex emergent behaviours. One striking example of this are social insect societies that emerge from extreme cooperative behaviour and have an important impact in many ecosystems. Colonies of most social insects construct and inhabit a single nest. However, colonies of...Burns, Dominic D. R.
PhD, Land & Nature, postgraduate research, ecosystem, Midlands & East of England, Longshaw, ants, and Derbyshire
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Doctoral thesis
Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College (SAEC) at Attingham 1948-76
This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study of post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through an investigation of the Shropshire Adult Education College (SAEC), 1948-1976. This was located at Attingham Park, Atcham, Shropshire, now a National Trust property. George Lowthian Trevelyan, its Warden until 1971, was both an educational pioneer...Clancy, Sharon L.
Shropshire, Midlands & East of England, Attingham, PhD, and postgraduate research
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Doctoral thesis
Assessing high resolution climate data to inform landscape management of climate risk at different scales
Climate change is one of the greatest threats in the 21st century to all inhabitants of the planet. Conservation organisations in the UK are interested in understanding this risk to their sites, and in integrating climate adaptation into management plans. This research assesses the use of high resolution UKCP18 projections...Watts, Lucia
species distributions, climate data, fire risk, Wales, Land & Nature, collaboration, Climate change, PhD, wind, and postgraduate research
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Doctoral thesis
Architectures of identity: English modernism, domesticity, and imperial decline
This thesis presents a cultural history of domestic space in England between 1910 and 1948. Against the backdrop of several social and economic shifts – imperial overextension, the end of the Pax Britannica with World War I, women’s suffrage, and Britain’s abandonment of the Gold Standard amid the Great Depression... -
Doctoral thesis
Tattershall Castle: building a history
Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, was developed in the 1230s for the regional baron, Robert de Tateshale. It was later remodelled, in the fifteenth century, for Ralph Lord Cromwell as a major expression of his status as a royal councillor and Lord Treasurer of England. The castle consists of... -
Doctoral thesis
Unravelling abiotic and biotic drivers of biodiversity change in local plant and invertebrate communities after 80 years - a re-visitation study on the Studland peninsula
How ecological communities respond to long-term environmental change via changes in species richness and composition is an urgent question in the 21st century as anthropogenic forces drive biodiversity declines across taxa and regions. As environmental conditions change over time, effects may cascade through co-occurring taxa, directly disturbing some species and...Carroll, Tadhg
South West, Studland, Dorset, postdoctoral research, hoverflies, Bayesian hierarchical modelling, PhD, and Indicator values
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Journal article
Going Deeper than ‘Emotional Impact’: Heritage, Academic Collaboration and Affective Engagements
Organisations such as the National Trust have recently looked to academia to assist them in the telling of their properties’ stories and contexts. Academia has similarly turned to heritage organisations and sites for audiences they can engage in their variously funded projects, and to fulfil the requirements of the REF... -
Doctoral thesis
A house 're-edified' : Thomas Sackville and the transformation of Knole 1605-1608
Thomas Sackville was a courtier and a politician during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Shortly prior to his death in April 1608, Sackville began work on his largest architectural project, the transformation of the archbishops’ greathouse at Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent. The house holds...Town, Edward
PhD, Curation & Experience, postdoctoral research, LSE, thesis, Knole, and London and South East