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  • Niamh McHugh

    Head of Farmland Ecology Unit Niamh is Head of Farmland Ecology Research at the GWCT. Much of her research focuses on landscape-scale farmer collaboration and the potential benefits this may have on farming systems (e.g. regenerative agriculture), farmland birds (e.g. barn owls), and wider ecosys...

  • Student opportunities

    The Research and Advisory Departments of the GWCT have a long-running association with teaching in UK universities. Although we are not a higher education institute (HEI) and therefore cannot award a degree to students, we can and do supervise students at three levels in the University system. Un...

  • GWCT Complaints Policy and Procedure

    We want to find out about things that have gone wrong so we can fix them, and prevent things going wrong in the future [1]. To help get this right we expect the person making the complaint to: Provide sufficient information for us to be able to understand the complaint, its cause, and a potentia...

  • General Licences for 2020

    Following last year’s General Licence fiasco, Defra are now reviewing when people will and won’t be allowed to control pest species in England in 2020. We are taking action now We're asking if you will help fund our challenging programme of work to ensure that those in charge listen not only to t...

  • Who we are

    Our people Passionate and resourceful. Loyal and positive. Our shared passion to produce a thriving countryside rich in wildlife and game runs throughout the Trust. We’re proud that everyone at the Trust upholds these principles. Our organisation would not have been able to stay at the cutting ed...

  • Facts and figures

    We employ over 100 staff, including many scientists, and run over 60 research projects - many in collaboration with universities supervising PhD students. We have an annual income of £6.8 million mostly coming from members, donations, fundraising events, sponsorship and charitable trusts. The re...

  • Volunteering

    By volunteering some of your time, you can help us with our work in game conservation and management. This time can be given to help us with our research, helping a county group with its event organisation and management or helping us fundraise. If you have any particular skills this could be ben...

  • Undergraduate placements

    Each year the GWCT hosts undergraduate students on ecology, conservation and data science-related degrees, offering them an exciting opportunity to spend their sandwich placement year taking part in important game and wildlife conservation research. Placements are based at both our headquarters a...

  • Louise Shervington

    Publications Officer Louise has worked at the GWCT for more than 20 years and is responsible for the editing, design and layout of GWCT’s members magazine Gamewise, as well as many science reports. She has always been interested in wildlife and lives in the New Forest with Austin, who works as a ...

  • Help the GWCT come back stronger

    With your help we can come out of the pandemic even stronger By Teresa Dent CBE, GWCT Chief Executive 3 minute read A year on from the start of the pandemic, your support has given us hope and enabled us to keep going – thank you. When the pandemic hit last March, we forecast a drop in income of...

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