Jodey Peyton

Biography

Jodey Peyton is a researcher in the Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program.

Prior to joining IIASA, she worked as a researcher at a UK research institute, focusing on the mitigation of the impacts of invasive alien species. She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD at the University of Sussex in this area of research.

Previously, Peyton worked at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and is now a Research Fellow there. Whilst at UKCEH, she was principle investigator for both the UK Research and Innovation (AHRC/NERC) project, The UK overseas territories: colonialism as a cultural and ecological driver and ensuring equity in environmental research and data exchanges. and a UK government-funded Defra Darwin Plus project “Addressing drivers of ecological change in Lake Akrotiri SBA, Cyprus“. She was also co-investigator for the UK Research and Innovation NERC Innovate Grant, Developing a toolkit to enable positive ecological site management and resident wellbeing in housing association developments.

More recently, she worked as an assessor undertaking the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red listing for endemic cloud forest invertebrates of the UK overseas territory of St. Helena and is leading a task on a Darwin Plus project, Developing a biodiversity & human wellbeing toolkit (based on Montserrat). In addition, Peyton is currently supporting the IUCN with a task for the European Commission, horizon scanning for invasive alien species that have negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems in Europe. The final list will support the Commission with shortlisting species for possible future additions to the Regulation on Invasive Alien Species.

In addition to the above, Peyton has worked on multiple UK, European, and international projects in partnership with diverse stakeholders from national governments, the international research community, non-governmental organizations, industry, and the wider public.

She obtained her undergraduate degree in Zoology from the University of Bristol in the UK, where she is from, and her MSc from the University of Birmingham.

She is also the co-leader of the IIASA Biodiversity Club.

Last update: 08 AUG 2024