Background
I work in the Monitoring Science section on a broad range of projects developing ways to assess and communicate the health of biodiversity. Including:
1) Undertaking ecological research to understand better how species groups or biodiversity more broadly is changing and why, for example assessing how the total abundance of birds has changed across the EU
2) Developing high level metrics and indicators of biodiversity change, several of which are now used as official statistics by the UK and devolved governments
3) Playing a central role in the State of Nature Partnership and the production the State of Nature report series (nbn.org.uk/stateofnature2019)
4) Supporting our policy colleagues to develop nature conservation targets and embed them into domestic legislation and international agreements.
Our work is collaborative and applied; we work with a wide range of organisations from across the conservation sector, including NGOs, academic institutions and statutory agencies, as well as teams across the RSPB. We are always keen to develop new collaborations, so please feel free to get in touch to discuss our work or project ideas.
External Activities
- Policy Officer: BES Quantitative Ecology Special Interest Group
Partners and Collaboration
- The State of Nature Partnership
Contact

Dr Fiona Burns
Senior Conservation Scientist, Conservation Science
RSPB Centre of Conservation Science, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3QZ