Jane Stout

FRES Fres () is a village and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Apokoronas, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of . The ...

is an

Entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and

Ecologist Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...

in Ireland. She is a professor of Ecology and Vice President for Biodiversity & Climate Action, at Trinity College Dublin, is current President of the Royal Entomological Society and is an expert in pollination ecology.

Education and career

Stout grew up in rural Northamptonshire, and studied an environmental science BSc at the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

, later graduating with a PhD in the foraging ecology of bumblebees in 1999. Jane was a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Southampton, moving to

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

in 2001 to be a postdoctoral researcher and from 2003 lecturer, in 2015 she was made Professor in Botany.

Research

Stout's work is on pollinator ecology, biodiversity and land management. In 2015 her work helped initiate th
All-Ireland Pollinator Plan
aiming to identify actions to make Ireland more pollinator friendly. In 2017 she set up apiary on the TCD campus, to compare honey from urban and rural honeybee hives. She has also researched the benefits of Irish honey, the value of pollinators in Ireland, the effects of pesticides, and pesticide residues on bees, as well as working on longterm data on pollinators in Ireland. Stout wrote a regular Irish Times column, including articles on the need for farmers and ecologists to work together, and why people and nature need each other., in 2020 she carried out a biodiversity assessment for President Higgins, and was head of the expert review into the future of Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in 2021, which reported neglect and under funding and resulted in a 2022 action plan. Jane has also published research on the benefits of forest, she leads the first project looking at

natural capital Natural capital is the world's stock of natural resources, which includes geology, soils, air, water and all living organisms. Some natural capital assets provide people with free goods and services, often called ecosystem services. All of t ...

and catchment management and more recently has worked on projects to improve the local environment in Dublin.

Awards

Stout won the

British Ecological Society The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913. It is the oldest ecological society in the world. The Society's original objective was "to promote and foster the study of Ecology in its widest ...

's award for Ecological Engagement 2017. In September 2023 Stout was confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Entomological Society, she will become President from September 2024. In December 2023 she is a plenary speaker at the BES's Annual Meeting in Belfast, speaking about '12 Months in Ecology'.

References

External links

Trinity College Dublin website profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stout, Jane Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British ecologists British entomologists Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society British women entomologists British women ecologists 21st-century British scientists 21st-century British women scientists Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Academics of Trinity College Dublin