Helen A. L. Currie

Helen Currie is a research fellow in the Faculty of Business and Law, and Manager for the Centre for Blue Governance.

Helen's research focuses on freshwater ecological monitoring and biodiversity, fish physiology, water resilience, environmental policy, and animal behaviour - with a specialism in bioacoustics. She is an active member of "Clean Water South", an initiative to tackle river health and community well-being in the South of England. She has advised as a fisheries technical specialist on regional projects for managing water resources in the UK. She is a Chartered Biologist and a skilled and experienced lead surveyor across a range of aquatic ecology field survey methods, specialising in freshwater and fish population monitoring.

Dr Currie has experience of translating research into policy, facilitating multi-sector stakeholder engagements and securing seats at high-profile policy roundtables - including with UK government officials.