Alice, who hails from Bathgate in West Lothian attended Balbardie Primary School and Bathgate Academy before graduating from the University of Aberdeen with a BSc (Hons) degree in Zoology in 2016 and an MSc in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Chester in June 2018. 

From September 2018 to August 2019, Alice was an internship warden with five RSPB’s reserves at Dungeness and North Kent Marshes in Kent carrying out surveying, reserve management and visitor engagement.

Alice’s newly created Conservation Assistant role will see her digitizing tens of thousands of old species records spanning 70 years or more, surveying for newts, leading on local wildlife site work, running events in addition to liaising with developers and builders and commenting on planning applications.

Speaking about her appointment, Duncan Hutt Northumberland Wildlife Trust Head of Living Landscapes and Conservation says: “Alice is such a welcome boost to the conservation team, joining us at a time when wildlife and green spaces are facing more challenges than ever before and certainly since the wildlife trust movement was founded over one hundred years ago.”