Christopher Terrell Nield

Role

As Environmental Team Leader and Principal Lecture in Ecology, Dr Chris Terrell-Nield is responsible for supporting those staff who deliver Biosciences’ environmental content, primarily within BSc (H) Applied Biology. He chairs group meetings of Environmental academic staff and is a member of the Biosciences Management Group, student appeals and academic irregularities panels. He also assists with Admissions and carries out a range of public-facing activities designed to enhance knowledge of Biosciences courses and NTU in general. Apart from environmental teaching, Chris has an extensive involvement in the delivery of the School’s Forensic Science modules and projects.

Career overview

Before joining NTU Dr Terrell-Nield was an Esmée Fairbairn Postdoctoral researcher within King's College, University of London.

External activity

• Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the British Ecological Society
• Member of the Cave Research Association
• Director of Creswell Heritage Trust
• Member of several Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust committees, including its Species Recovery Committee and Site Warden for Bunny Old Wood, south Notts.
• Member of the Rushcliffe Nature Conservation Strategy Implementation Group for Rushcliffe Borough Council
• Regular contributor to BBC Radio Nottingham and to the national press (entomological and environmental topics).
• Writes and publishes poetry to illustrate species’ ecology and environmental issues.
• Public lectures for external organisations, e.g.: Derby Natural History Society; Wollaton Natural History Society
• Photography (including for NTU publicity, teaching and research).

Sponsors and collaborators

Recent work has been conducted with the collaboration, funding and / or support of:

• Creswell Heritage Trust
• Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
• Rushcliffe Country Park (Bioblitz)