Professor Zoe Davies gained a BSc in Zoology at Royal Holloway, University of London, before studying for her PhD at the University of Leeds. After gaining her doctorate, she worked as a systematic reviewer at the Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation (CEBC) in Birmingham, before joining the Biodiversity and Macroecology Group (BIOME) at the University of Sheffield as a postdoctoral researcher.

In 2010, she was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Kent and is now Professor of Biodiversity Conservation. Zoe is a member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. She is incredibly proud to be part of DICE and was delighted when it was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2019. Zoe has diverse research interests, crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries but focusing on the use of empirical data to address questions of importance to conservation management and policy. They can be summarised into the following key themes: conservation practice and policy; biodiversity-human wellbeing relationships; and assessing the impacts of environmental change.