Silwood Park is an international hub for ecological research, spanning areas from evolution to zoonotic disease. Explore examples of our research expertise below. 

Our research areas

Carbon cycling and climate change

Climate crisis and biodiversity

Ecosystem restoration

eDNA and environomics

Evolution in action

Marine ecosystems

Microbiomes and ecology

Quantitative ecology, big data and AI

Tropical forests

Zoonotic disease

Publications

Browse our publications to learn more about our latest research.

Silwood Research Centres 

Silwood Park hosts four research centres, which are focal points for collaboration and inter-disciplinary research between Silwood and partner institutions along with faculties and departments across Imperial.

Research Centres 1

Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet

This centre, named after prominent ecologist and conservation biologist Professor Dame Georgina Mace, brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to tackle some of the greatest environmental challenges.

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Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont

This centre aims to create a green revolution in agriculture, rescue threatened species and restore habitats.

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Research centres 2

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires

This centre aims to provide a step-change in the scientific understanding of what drives wildfires around the world, and what the future might hold for the natural and human systems influenced by them.

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Target Malaria

Target Malaria is an innovative project aiming to reduce the population of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Apply for a Research Fellowship

Silwood is the ideal place to host your fellowship. We support applications across ecology, evolution and environmental sciences.