Dr. Hilton leads a 25-person multidisciplinary team of conservation scientists, which provides conservation evidence to underpin the wetland conservation strategy of WWT and wetland conservation more widely. I completed a PhD in the seabird research group at Glasgow University. After 10 years in RSPB’s International Research Unit, including two years seconded to Lisbon and the Portuguese Society for the Protection of Birds (SPEA), I joined WWT in 2009. I have worked on species recovery science for many years, with a particular interest in waders such as Eurasian curlew and spoon-billed sandpiper, as well as wildfowl such as Greenland white-fronted goose. More recently, I oversee a broad portfolio of research on wetland nature-based solutions, such as blue carbon, natural flood management and health and wellbeing benefits of access to blue space. I am based in south-west England, with projects throughout the UK and in Madagascar and Cambodia.
