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Anna Champneys

Anna Champneys

Senior Lecturer

School of Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Environment

Role

Dr Anna Champneys is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences and course leader for BSc Wildlife Conservation. She teaches students studying  BSc Wildlife Conservation, BSc Ecology & Conservation, BSc Environmental Science, MSc/MRes Applied Ecology & Geospatial Techniques and MSc/MRes Biodiversity Conservation.  Anna is module leader for:

  • Behaviour
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Protected Species Surveying

She also supervises undergraduate student research projects, with an emphasis on topics relating to animal behaviour and behavioural ecology.

Career overview

Anna undertook a degree in Wildlife Conservation, followed by an internship with the People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) investigating the importance of hedgerows to small mammals. She then undertook a PhD in ecology, studying water shrew (Neomys fodiens) distribution and habitat selection. Anna is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award.

Research areas

Factors affecting distribution of water shrews

Habitat selection of water shrews

Genetics of water shrews

Small mammal habitat preferences

Badgers and toxoplasma

External activity

Member of the Mammal Society

Sponsors and collaborators

People’s Trust for Endangered Species

NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility, University of Sheffield

Press expertise

Animal behaviour

Wildlife conservation

Course(s) I teach on