Patrick Walsh
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 7573
- Email: Patrick.Walsh@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
-
Room 1.59, Ashworth Laboratories
- City
- Kings Buildings
- Post code
- EH9 3FL
Background
2025-present Head of Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh
2017-2024 Director of Teaching, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
2016-2022 Senior Lecturer, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh
2012-2016 Lecturer, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
2010-2012 Teaching Fellow, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
2007-2010 Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews
2003-2004 Research Assistant, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow
Qualifications
2004-2007 PhD, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow
1998-2003 MSci with Honours Zoology, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow
Undergraduate teaching
Biology 1A: Variation (first year) - Course organiser
Biology 2B: Genetics and Evolution (second year)
Field Zoology (third year)
Zoology and Evolutionary Biology Field Course (fourth year)
MBiol (fifth year) - co-Programme Director
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Louise Flowers (MScR) 2025 - Present
Isabel Lamb 2025 - Present
Josie McPherson 2022 - Present
Past PhD students supervised
Ashley Buchan (Co-supervisor) 2014 - 2022
Cammy Beyts 2017 - 2021
Thomas Godfrey (Co-supervisor) 2011 - 2017
Research summary
A focus of my work is attempting to understand why animals do what they do, particularly in relation to animals' responses to ecological conditions. I am currently working in the field of animal behavioural syndromes, so called "animal personalities" using amphibians as a model systems. I have previous investigated, and remain interested, in understanding which factors play a role in the timing and duration of metamorphosis, including potential responses of British amphibians to a changing climate.