Room: G18, Thoday Building

Email: s.willcock@bangor.ac.uk

Tel No: +44 (0) 1248 382 288

Twitter: @Simon_Willcock

Profiles:

• Google Scholar profile
• LinkedIn profile
• Mendeley profile
• ResearchGate profile

Projects:

My projects focus on the interaction between people and nature, often using innovative methods (e.g. smartphones, and machine learning).

• Profesiynol: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
  University of Southampton, 2015
• PhD: Long-term Land Cover Change and Carbon Storage in Tanzania, East Africa
  School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK, 2012
• BA: Biological Sciences
  Oxford University, 2007

Supervisor of seven PhD students.

Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team member

Elected member of university Senate

I am an interdisciplinary scientist, keen on producing real-world outputs that can be applied in numerous policy and business contexts. My particular interests focus on the interactions between people and nature, particularly within the tropics. Key subject areas include:

• Adaptation
• Climate Change
• Ecosystem Services
• Land use/cover change
• Migration
• Resilience
• Tipping points

My projects focus on ecosystems services (the benefits humans derive from nature) in rural and urban areas, using innovative methods (e.g. smartphones; https://msds.tools/). 

I welcome applications for postgraduate research (e.g. PhD, MRes, etc) that cover my areas of interest. These include: 

• Adaptation
• Climate Change
• Ecosystem Services
• Land use/cover change
• Migration
• Resilience
• Tipping points

Within these areas, I have a wide range of interests, and possible projects might include:

1. Using virtual reality to better understand cultural ecosystem services.
2. Using machine learning to up-scale social survey data collection via smartphones
3. The role biodiversity plays in tipping points

and many more!

2023

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2022

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2020

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2019

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2018

• CyhoeddwydEcosystem service responses to rewilding - first-order estimates from 27 years of rewilding in the Scottish Highlands
  zu Ermgassen, S. O. S. E., McKenna, T., Gordon, J. & Willcock, S., 2018, Yn: International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. 14, 1, t. 165-178
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2017

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2016

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2015

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2014

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2013

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  Willcock, S., 2013, Yn: Mountain Research and Development. 33, 4, t. 485-486 2 t.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Adolygiad Llyfr/Ffilm/Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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2012

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2011

• CyhoeddwydImplementation and opportunity costs of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Tanzania
  Fisher, B., Lewis, S. L., Burgess, N. D., Malimbwi, R. E., Munishi, P. K., Swetnam, R. D., Turner, R. K., Willcock, S. & Balmford, A., 2011, Yn: Nature Climate Change. 1, 3, t. 161-164 4 t.
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2010

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2007

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2022

• Contribution to the Technical Advisory Group: Consensus statement on face masks for the public report.

  Advice on the use of face coverings or masks by the public after the peak of the Omicron wave. Work for AHRC grant quoted in Welsh Government report

  11 Maw 2022

  Cysylltau:

  • https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2022-03/technical-advisory-group-consensus-statement-on-face-masks-for-the-public.pdf#:~:text=Technical%20Advisory%20Group%20Consensus%20statement%20on%20face%20masks,public%20after%20the%20peak%20of%20the%20Omicron%20wave.
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2021

• Will mask wearing still be common in Britain after the pandemic is over?

  6 Awst 2021

  Cysylltau:

  • https://theconversation.com/will-mask-wearing-still-be-common-in-britain-after-the-pandemic-is-over-165210
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)

2018

• Mount Lico Expedition

  In May 2018, I collaborated with other scientists to survey Lico and Socone. We were the first people in living memory to set foot in the forest on Mount Lico and our work generated significant media interest.

  31 Mai 2018 – 31 Gorff 2018

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/17/mozambique-mount-lico-rainforest-new-species?CMP=share_btn_link
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2018/jun/17/the-secret-rainforest-hidden-at-the-heart-of-an-african-volcano-in-pictures
  • https://forestsfirstfootsteps.com/
  • https://www.africa.com/africa-top10-news-13/
  • https://www.hln.be/wetenschap-planeet/vulkaan-verbergt-ultiem-geschenk-voor-biologen-een-onontdekt-regenwoud~ae00bd61/
  • https://thisisafrica.me/hidden-rainforests-mozambique/
  • https://face2faceafrica.com/article/a-virgin-rainforest-hidden-from-the-world-for-years-discovered-in-mozambique
  • https://dmmclimbing.com/Journal/June-2018/Monte-Licos-rainforest-lost-world
  • http://www.welingelichtekringen.nl/natuur-en-milieu/815675/biologen-ontdekken-mysterieus-regenwoud-in-vulkaan.html
  • http://www.enviweb.cz/rss/172225
  • https://thebreakingnewsheadlines.com/blog/mozambique-the-secret-rainforest-at-the-heart-of-an-african-volcano/
  • http://au.pressfrom.com/news/tech-and-science/-68347-scientists-are-exploring-a-lost-rain-forest-hidden-in-a-mozambique-volcano-for-the-first-time/
  • https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6418105341527101440/
  • https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/scientists-are-exploring-a-lost-rainforest-hidden-in-a-mozambique-volcano-for-the-first-time?utm_source=Facebook%20Videos&utm_medium=Facebook%20Videos&utm_campaign=Facebook%20Video%20Blogs
  • https://qz.com/1309262/how-scientists-discovered-a-lost-rainforest-and-new-species-in-mozambiques-mount-lico-using-google-earth/
  • https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/journey-into-untouched-lost-world-reveals-shock-discovery-1-4762945
  • https://www.corriere.it/cronache/cards/mount-lico-scoperta-foresta-pluviale-cima-vulcano-inattivo-mozambico/qui-non-c-mai-stato-nessuno_principale.shtml
  • https://www.sciencealert.com.au/there-s-an-incredible-secret-rainforest-hidden-in-the-heart-of-africa?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1
  • https://qz.com/1320464/scientists-find-mozambiques-untouched-rainforest-on-top-of-an-african-mountain/
  • https://theconversation.com/why-we-explored-an-undisturbed-rainforest-hidden-on-top-of-an-african-mountain-98744
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)

• PhD student placement for Rachel Dolan: Creating a digital map of outdoor public access in Wales

  02/04/2022 – 15/07/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

• ODA reimbursment funds from main FEC F010176 and linked to F008610

  01/04/2021 – 30/04/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

• Scaling-up off-grid sanitation

  01/07/2020 – 31/10/2024 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)

• Additional funding for ENVISION student Katie Devenish

  01/10/2019 – 30/04/2023 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)

• EnsembIES - using ensemble techniques to capture the accuracy and sensitivity of ecosystem service models

  01/09/2019 – 11/01/2021 (Wedi gorffen)

• MobilES - using mobile phone technology to capture ecosystem services information

  01/10/2018 – 22/06/2022 (Wedi gorffen)

• Rurality as a vehicle for Urban Sanitation Transformation (RUST)

  15/05/2018 – 20/07/2020 (Wedi gorffen)

  Disgrifiad

  RUST is an Indian-UK research and impact consortium that aims to better understand and promote more integrated sanitation policy and planning between urban and rural areas in Indian cities. It will bring together research on sanitation practices, infrastructure, economic costs, institutional systems and ecosystem services to build an integrated picture of the urban and rural sanitation systems across the case study city of Hyderabad and surrounding areas. Using

  Geographical Information System platforms and data visualisation techniques, the project will engage with urban and rural sanitation stakeholders to develop creative and workable policy and planning solutions that have relevance for large cities in India and other transitioning nations.

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.rustindia.online/