William Sutherland - Curriculum Vitae#

External roles

2022 Scientific Committee, European Congress of Conservation Biology

2018 Advisory Board Trends in Ecology and Evolution

2013 - 2015 President British Ecological Society

2013 Board member Charles Darwin Foundation

2013 - 2016 NERC Science and Innovation Strategy Board

2012 International Scientific Advisory Panel, Centre for Excellence in Environmental Decisions, Australia

2011 - 2018 Scientific Council of Tour du Valat

2011 Advisory Committee Synchronicity Earth

2009 - 2010 Review of England’s wildlife network for Defra (Lawton Review)

2008 The Royal Society review biological mechanisms to enhance food-crop production.

2007 Science Advisory Committee, Natural England, UK

2007 - 2011 Editor in Chief Conservation Letters

2005 - 2010 Editorial Board Behavioral Ecology

2004 Editor in Chief Conservation Evidence

2003 Oryx Editorial board

Books written

Sutherland, W.J. (1996) From Individual Behaviour to Population Ecology. Oxford University Press.

Sutherland, W.J. (2000) The Conservation Handbook: Research, Management and Policy Techniques. Blackwell Scientific.

Dicks, L.J. Showler, D.A. & Sutherland, W.J. (2010) Bee conservation: evidence for the effectiveness of interventions. Pelagic Publishing.

Williams, D.,W., Pople, R.G., Showler, D.A., Dicks, L.V., Child, M.F., zu Ermgassen, E.K.H.J., & Sutherland, W.J. (2013). Bird Conservation. Evidence for the effects of interventions. Pelagic Publishing.

Smith, R.K. & Sutherland, W.J. (2014). Amphibian Conservation: evidence for effectiveness of interventions. Pelagic Publishing

Dicks, L. V., J. E. Ashpole, J. Danhardt, K. James, A. Jönsson, N. Randall, D. A. Showler, R. K. Smith, S. Turpie, D. Williams, and W. J. Sutherland. (2014). Farmland Conservation Synopsis: evidence for effectiveness of interventions. Pelagic Publishing

Littlewood, N.A., Rocha, R., Smith, R.K., Martin, P.A., Lockhart, S.L., Schoonover, R.F., Wilman, E., Bladon, A.J., Sainsbury, K.A., Pimm, S. & Sutherland, W.J. (2020) Terrestrial Mammal Conservation. Global evidence for the effects of interventions for terrestrial mammals OpenBooks.

Sutherland, W.J., Dicks, L.V., Petrovan, S.O. & Smith, R.K. 2020. What Works in Conservation 2020. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. (updated each year since 2015)

Books edited

Sutherland, W.J. (2023) Transforming Conservation: a practical guide to evidence and decision making. Open Books.

Sutherland, W.J., Newton, I. & Green, R.E. (2004) Bird Ecology and Conservation: a handbook of techniques. Oxford University Press.

Sutherland, W.J & Hill, D.A. (eds) (1995) Managing Habitats for Conservation. Cambridge University Press.

Sutherland, W.J. (1996) (ed). Ecological census techniques: a handbook. Cambridge University Press.

Sutherland, W.J. (1998) (ed) Conservation Science and Action. Blackwells.

Gosling, L.M. & Sutherland, W.J. (2000). Behaviour and Conservation. Cambridge University Press.

Sutherland, W.J. (2006) (ed). Ecological census techniques: a handbook. Cambridge University Press. Second edition.

Sutherland, W.J., Brotherton, P.N.M., Davies, Z.G., Ockendon, N. Pettorelli, N. & Vickery J.A. (eds) (2020). Conservation Research, Policy and Practice Cambridge University Press

Series editor and creator of the Techniques in Ecology and Conservation series with Oxford University Press.