Course curriculum

More talks will be added after other conferences throughout the year and as speakers grant us permission to share their talk

    1. Introduction

    1. Introduction

    2. Keynote: BCT - a personal reflection - Dr Carol Williams

    3. BCT Update - Kit Stoner

    4. BatSync - sharing usable ad-hoc bat data - Tom August, CEH

    5. Biodiversity, bats and barriers - what's stopping better bat policy? Lil McDermaid, BCT

    6. Pete Guest Award Winner - Tina Wiffen

    7. Lyssavirus infections in UK bat populations - Leigh Thorne, APHA

    8. Barbastelle bat project in Pembrokeshire - Daniel Hargreaves & Cathy Jewson, VWT

    9. 2027 International Year of the Bats - Dr Allyson Walsh, BCT

    10. Ecosystem services of a high-flying bat (Mops plicatus) in Southeast Asian rice systems - Supawan Srilopan, Prince of Songkla University

    11. Assessing the impact of Welsh solar developments on bats - Maya Griffin, UWE

    12. Are soprano pipistrelle nursery roost sites in your area cool?: Why does it matter and how can we find out? Maggie Andrews, MWLBG

    13. Vincent Weir Award Winner - Santiago Martinez Balvanera

    14. Managing commercial Sitka woodland to enhance habitats for bats - Tony Martin, E3 Ecology

    15. More questions than answers – Research use of underground sites by bats - Dave Anderson, Yorkshire Dales and Bowland Bat Research Group

    16. Roosting in a noisy world: Behavioural responses of lesser horseshoe bats to anthropogenic noise - Camilla Soravia, University of Chester

    1. Welcome

    2. BCT Update - Lisa Worledge

    3. Avon Bat Atlas Project - James Shipman

    4. North Somerset Bat Survey - Dani Walker

    5. The Big Bat Count - Andy Avery, Somerset Bat Group

    6. Assessing bat diversity in woodlands Devon and Cornwall - David Hill

    7. International Year of the Bat - Dan Bryant

    1. Welcome

    2. Bat Conservation Trust Update - Kit Stoner (Bat Conservation Trust)

    3. From bat records to predictive maps: developing regional bat habitat suitability models for Yorkshire– Matthew Whittle and Greg Slack (SLR Consulting & Middleton Bell Ecology)

    4. Snug as a bat in a box: patterns of year-round bat box use and response of roosting Pipistrellus bats to winter temperatures – Bethany Beck (South Yorkshire Bat Group)

    5. ‘Ome-ing in on Bat Poop’: Shotgun Metagenomics of Bat Droppings from Wild and Rehabilitating Yorkshire Bats – Dr Colin Townsley (West Yorkshire Bat Group)

    6. No rest for the winged: Analysing factors that cause stress and burn out in bat carers – Hannah Wilson (Cleveland Bat Group)

    7. Bat Box Uptake by Colonies: What we know and what we still need to find out– Rich Flight (Flight Ecology)

    1. Introduction

    2. Landscape for Lessers - Daniel Hargreaves

    3. Wales Woodland Wonders - Elliot Bastos

    4. Advanced Thermal Vision surveying techniques for ecologists - Andrew Milner, Thermal Vision Ecology

    5. It's all about b-attitude! Naomi Webster

    6. Swansea Stars of the Night - Bethan Withey

    7. Building relationship and engaging members - Naomi Webster

    8. BCT Update - Joe Nunez-Mino

    9. Bat Mitigation Workshop - Richard Crompton

    1. Introduction

    2. Keynote talk: Using genomics to inform bat conservation under global change - Dr Ricardo Rocha, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

    3. BCT Update - Kit Stoner, BCT Chief Executive

    4. The Abundance and Structure of Type-C Social Calls at a Soprano Pipistrelle Maternity Roost as Juveniles Increase in Independence - Emily Hill, Hartpury University

    5. Bat migration routes in Europe: an acoustic venture - Charlotte Roemer, French Natural History Museum

    6. It's all about "b-attitude" - what have we learned about people's attitudes to bats? - Naomi Webster, BCT

    7. Bats in dynamic agricultural landscapes: what are the benefits of mixed farming? - Rochelle Kennedy, Scotland’s Rural College / University of Stirling

    8. Connecting people and landscapes in a changing climate - Danielle Smith, BCT

    9. Arid zone bats and fenced conservation reserves - Oliver Aylen, University of New South Wales

    10. Using a land-bridge island system to investigate the long-term responses of bats to forest fragmentation - Dillan Hoyt, University of Oxford

    11. Bats and Aerial Thermal Surveys - Giles Coe, Co-ecology

    12. Seasonal variation in bat activity levels at underground sites in Jersey - Annika Binet, AKB Ecology

    13. Ultra-Violet fluorescence in lesser and Blasius’s horseshoe bats; is it maladaptive for the bats but useful for batworkers? - Henry Schofield, University of Sussex

    14. Assessing the Impact of Anthropogenic Disturbance on the Welfare of Lesser Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) through Non-Invasive Hormone Analysis - Lucy Morison, University of Chester

About this course

  • £25.00 / year
  • 98 lessons
  • 30 hours of video content

Great CPD for professional & volunteer bat workers

More content added after each conference

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