Rosie Woodroffe

Education

Woodroffe was educated at the Somerville College, Oxford and was awarded Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 for research on factors affecting reproductive success in the European badger, Meles meles L.[1] supervised by David Macdonald.

Career

From 1993-1994 she was a research associate at the Institute of Zoology, the research division of the Zoological Society of London. From 1994-1998 she was a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From 1998 to 2001 she was a lecturer in ecology & epidemiology at the University of Warwick. From 2001 to 2007 she was at the Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology at the University of California, Davis as assistant professor, associate professor and finally professor of conservation biology.[2] In 2007 returned to the Institute of Zoology in London as a senior research fellow.[3][4]

Personal life

Rosie is the daughter of fantasy artist Patrick Woodroffe.[5]

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References
  1. Woodroffe, Rosemary Brigitte. (1992). Factors affecting reproductive success in the European badger, Meles meles L. (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 53523309.
  2. http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7570
  3. http://www.zsl.org/science/ioz-staff-students/woodroffe,1203,AR.html
  4. Donnelly, Christl Ann; Woodroffe, Rosie (2015). "Bovine tuberculosis: Badger-cull targets unlikely to reduce TB". Nature. 526 (7575): 640–640. doi:10.1038/526640c. PMID 26511569.
  5. Blackburn, Craig (16 May 2014). "World-renowned Falmouth artist Patrick Woodroffe dies aged 73". The West Briton. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
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