• DPhil in Plant Ecology (University of Sussex)

• Certificate in Field Biology (University of Sussex)

• First class honours degree in Environmental Science (Leicester University)

• Full member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management

• Guest lecturer at the School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin

• Visiting research fellow at the School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast

• Board member of the Dublin Naturalist Field Club

• Member of Council for British Bryological Society (BBS)

• Member of the BBS Atlas 2012 steering committee

• BBS regional bryophyte recorder for County Wicklow

• Organiser and founder of the BBS Dublin Regional Bryophyte Group

• Committee member and treasurer of the IEEM Irish Section

Joanne has over 10 years of ecological experience. 

She has worked for ecological consultancies in Ireland (Scott Cawley) and the UK (RPS) and as a research assistant at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute.  She has undertaken research into the impacts of land-use, climate change and grazing on upland and lowland plant communities.  Her work has been published in international peer-reviewed ecological journals and she has given presentations at international conferences.