Occupations: -

Sept 05 – Jan 06 Visiting lecturer, University of Surrey Roehampton
- Undergraduate and Masters lecturing in Invertebrate biology, Ecology, sampling design, and statistics.

May 05 – June 06 Teaching Assistant, Tropical Ecology Field course, La Suerte, Costa Rica
- assisting in fieldwork, running practicals, lecturing, tutoring in tropical entomology and ecological methods

Feb 04 – present Supervisor, Bella Italia, Dulwich Village
- Supervising shifts, have a various times been involved in the book work, ordering, deliverers, rotas

Feb 05 – May 05 Visiting lecturer, University of Surrey Roehampton
- Undergraduate lecturing on statistics including SPSS and report writing

Feb 05 – May 05 Visiting lecturer, St Mary’s College, University of Surrey
- Undergraduate lecturing on Humans and Biodiversity

Oct 04 – Jan 05 Visiting lecturer, University of Surrey Roehampton
- Undergraduate and Masters lecturing in Invertebrate biology, Ecology and sampling design. Involved with dissertation students and tutored options.

Feb 04 – present Part time volunteer, Natural History Museum
- Help with curatory work with beetles, involving sorting, mounting, separation into families. Both British and foreign specimens.

Feb 04 – May 04 Part time lecturer, University of Surrey Roehampton
- Lecturing on population dynamics

Sep 03 – Jan 04 Lecturer, University of Surrey Roehampton
- Undergraduate and Masters lecturing in Invertebrate biology and Ecology, involved with dissertation students and tutored options

From October 2002 to august 2003 – I travelled around South and Central America. Whilst here I volunteered for Raleigh International as a Assistant Group leader in Chile working on the Darwin Initiative project monitoring the Huemel or South Andean Deer.

Sep 01 – Jan 01 Visiting Lecturer, University of Surrey Roehampton
- Invertebrate form and Function
- involving lecturing, practical running and marking

Aug 01 – Jan 01 Technician (part time), University of Surrey Roehampton
- involving practical set ups
- demonstrating to and supervising students

Aug 96 – Dec 96 Research Assistant, University of Manchester
- Effects of soil management techniques on soil microbial communities
- Analytical procedures including PLFA analysis

Feb 95 – Aug 95 Research Assistant, University of Adelaide
- Use of ants as Indicator Species to determine the effects of disturbance
- Field work, statistical analysis

Aug 94 – Jan Research Assistant, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- Behavioural, ecological and historical aspects of the Heather Beetle Lochmeae suturalis
- Field sampling, dissection, SEM, literature review

Publications: -

Wardlaw, J.C., Webb, N.R., McAlister, E. J.A. and Murcott, J. (2000) Observations on the life cycle of Medina collaris (Fallén) (Dipt., Tachinidae). Entomologists Monthly Magazine 136: 21-29.

Bardgett, R.D. and McAlister, E. (1999) The measurement of soil fungal : bacterial biomass ratios as an indicator of ecosystem self-regulation in temperate meadow grasslands. Biology and Fertility of Soils 29(3): 282-290

Bardgett, R.D., Cook, R., Yeates, G.W., Donnison, L., Hobbs, P.J. and McAlister, E. (1997) Grassland Management to promote soil biodiversity. In: Grassland management in Environmentally sensitive areas. British Grassland Society. 132-137

Other Scientific Publications or presentations

McAlister, E., Ozanne, C. and Shaw, P. (2001) The effect of macrophyte planting on the invertebrate community on a grazing marsh. Oral presentation. Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL) XXVIII congress, Feb 4-10.

McAlister, E. (1999) Effect of Terrestrial Vegetation on Ditch Invertebrates on a Grazing Marsh. VIII European Ecological Congress, Poster Abstracts (Halkidiki, Greece, 1999)

Other Skills

Full driving license
Conversational Spanish
Open water diver

Referees:-

Dr. C. Ozanne, Supervisor
University of Surrey Roehampton, Whitelands College, West Hill, London, SW15 3SN

Dr P. Shaw, Director of Studies
University of Surrey Roehampton, Whitelands College, West Hill, London, SW15 3SN