BTO names University of Kent academic Zoe Davies as its new chairperson

                                                                          

Zoe - passionate about public engagement

ZOE Davies has this month been named as new chairperson of the BTO.

Zoe is a professor of biodiversity conservation at the University of Kent where she has a special interest in "human-biodiversity relationships".

She is said to to be "passionate" about widening public engagement with science, technology, engineering and maths.

The extent of Zoe's interest in ornithology and birding has not been revealed but it is stated that she is on the committee of several other ecology-related organisations.

See: Announcing new Board members for BTO | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology

No details have been released about her family background or any hobbies she might have. 

The Wryneck says: Zoe Davies is doubtless an excellent appointment - and a very engaging personality - but you would never know this from the press release issued by the BTO. This is so drably written that it has the regrettable and totally unfair effect of portraying her as the dullest of  academics. The document should be re-written and re-issued by the BTO without delay.  Members want to be told that the board is headed not by a stuffy boffin but by a vivacious and inspirational livewire with both a million and one ideas and the energy to bring them to fruition.