I joined the School of Life Sciences in 2013 from Nottingham Trent University, where I was a Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Management. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Environment Department and Department of Politics at the University of York. I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield, following a BSc in Biological Sciences at King’s College London.

My research is motivated by the rapid changes happening to ecosystems as a consequence of human development. In particular, I am interested in the causes and consequences of the loss of species, habitats and ecosystems – both for nature and for people

Burns, C., Carter, N. T., Davies, G. A. M. and Worsfold, N. T. (2013). Still saving the Earth? The European Parliament's environmental record. Environmental Politics (awaiting issue; DOI:10.1080/09644016.2012.698880). Clements, C. F., Worsfold, N. T., Warren, P. H., Collen, B., Clark, N., Blackburn, T. M., Petchey, O. L. (2013). Experimentally testing the accuracy of an extinction estimator: Solow's optimal linear estimation model. Journal of Animal Ecology 82 (2): 345-354. Burns, C., Carter, N. T. and Worsfold, N. T. (2012). Enlargement and the Environment: The Changing Behaviour of the European Parliament. Journal of Common Market Studies 50 (1): 54-70. Worsfold, N.T., Warren, P.H. and Petchey, O.L. (2009). Context-dependent effects of predator removal from experimental microcosm communities. Oikos 118: 1319-1326.