Rosemary Fricker
- Daphne Jackson Trust Research Fellow
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- Herbarium, 47 Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1LR
About
Rosemary Fricker is a Daphne Jackson Trust Research Fellow at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Previous Positions
2016 to 2020 - Professor of Neurobiology & Director of Medical Science - Keele University Medical School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
2005 to 2015 - Research Academic and Medical Educator - Keele University Medical School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
2000 to 2004 - Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow - Cardiff University, Wales
1998 to 2000 - Independent postdoctoral researcher - Harvard Medical School, USA
1995 to 1998 - Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow - Lund University, Sweden
Qualifications
1995 - PhD in Neuroscience - University of Cambridge, England
2006 - PGCE in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
1991 - Bsc (Hons) in Applied Biology - University of Bath, England
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Awards & Fellowships
2025 - Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship - UKKRI-NERC and UKRI-BBSR
2022 - Bye-Fellow - Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, England
Committees
2020 to 2025 - Member of College of Experts - Parkinson’s UK
2016 to 2020 - External Examiner - St George’s Medical School, London, England
2013 to 2023 - Board Member - Network for European CNS transplantation and repair (NECTAR)
2013 to 2014 - Editor-in-Chief - NeuroReport Journal
Public Engagement
Since 2022, I have co-ordinated a citizen science project at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, recording the timing of phenological (seasonal) events in 90 trees. The project has been covered by BBC Look East, TV Cambridgeshire and in a chapter of “The hidden seasons” book, by author Tristan Gooley.
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Research Overview
My research uses the University Herbarium and Zoology Museum specimens to evaluate human impact on plant and insect communities in the East of England in the last 200 years. My interests are in the drivers of community change: the draining of the Fens, intensification of agriculture, and the impact of climate on seasonal phenology measures.