Dr. Danielle Hinchcliffe

Current positions

Teaching Fellow of Biology and Wildlife

Biography

I completed my undergraduate Master’s degree in Biology in 2011 at the University of Sheffield, having spent my fourth-year on placement at the University of Muenster, Germany. My PhD in Molecular Ecology at the University of East Anglia focused on using genetic and ecological tools to answer fundamental evolutionary questions concerning the endangered Seychelles warbler.

Having participated first-hand in using science to evidence conservation management and action, I took on the role of Senior Scientist with the globally-recognised NGO Operation Wallacea. This role expanded to setting up field sites and long-term biodiversity monitoring programmes, in addition to managing several academic research projects, and directly running the company’s largest terrestrial forest site, Cusuco National Park in Honduras.

I returned to Manchester as a post-doc, developing biomolecular tools for monitoring stress and welfare of wild equid populations in collaboration with Chester Zoo, before taking up a teaching role at the University of Salford.

Alongside my academic career, I am a freelance surveyor in ecological consultancy and an ornithologist.

Areas of research

Molecular ecology, population genetics, evolution and conservation biology

Areas of supervision

Supervision of final-year undergraduate and Masters of Research (MRes) student projects, currently co-supervise MRes and PhD students in the School