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Dr Paul Smith
Recognised Teacher in Continuing Education
Visiting Fellow
Dr Paul Smith
Dr Paul Smith
BSc (Hons), PhD
Recognised Teacher in Continuing Education
Visiting Fellow
Area of research
Ecological Mitigation and Translocation Design
Wills Memorial Building,
Queen's Road,
Clifton
BS8 1RJ
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Research summary
As a practicing ecologist and botanical specialist, I have worked with civil engineers in the public and private sectors since the 1980s. Following five years developing an environmental assessment unit for a local authority, I then joined the multinational Halcrow Group where I worked as a senior and principal scientist for nine years. Much of my work centred on the assessment and mitigation of the ecological effects of transport infrastructure, especially roads and bridges. Four years of my career were spent providing consultancy expertise to the Wildlife Trusts (conservation NGOs), a period which led to the establishment of my own ...
Biography
The study of plants and those other organisms traditionally studied by botanists has been the central theme of my career. I gained a first class honours degree in Botany from the University of Bristol in 1981 and was subsequently awarded the Rose Bracher Prize. Winning a SERC departmental quota award enabled me to carry out three years taxonomic work on the Fumariaceae, a group of plants used in the pharmaceutical industry, with a view to clarifying their identification at the species level. This led to the award of my PhD in 1985. An interest in Mediterranean floras has led me ...
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