Dr Darren Southwell

Darren is a Lecturer in Conservation Science. After 5 years working as a scientist at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Australian Antarctic Division, Darren completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne on the optimal management of threatened and invasive populations across space and time. Shortly afterwards, he commenced a postdoc with the National Environmental Science Program’s Threatened Species Recovery Hub at the University of Melbourne designing and evaluating large-scale biodiversity monitoring programs across Australia. He's now a lecturer in the Conservation Science Research Group at the University of Newcastle. Darren’s goal is to use quantitative modelling tools in collaboration with end-users to inform conservation decisions.