Matthew Evans joined Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s as Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) in August 2023. In this role, he is the university카지노 게임 컬렉션™s chief academic, budget, and operating officer 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ overseeing academic affairs, developing the operating budget, and delivering on the university카지노 게임 컬렉션™s strategic priorities. Prior to arriving at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s, he held senior leadership positions at several universities around the world, including in Scotland, England, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. He카지노 게임 컬렉션™s an accomplished ecologist, biologist, and climate change scientist, and in 2020, he was recognized on a global list of the top 2 per cent of scientists in his field in the world. In this interview, Dr. Evans shares his experiences as a researcher, professor, and university leader, and insight into why he came to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s, and his priorities.

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You are a Professor of Ecology with research interests spanning ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation biology, behavioural ecology, and most recently, how to predict the impact of climate change on the natural world. How did you decide to enter these fields and what continually fuels your interest and research pursuits?

It카지노 게임 컬렉션™s evolved over time. My initial academic interest stemmed from my love of ornithology as a child. That카지노 게임 컬렉션™s been a personal, private passion of mine. I카지노 게임 컬렉션™ve always had a pair of binoculars on the table and bird books all over the house. I never lost that, and I did a first degree in zoology at Bristol and became increasingly interested in what was then a new field, behavioural ecology 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ why animals do what they do, why they look the way they look, etc. It was linked very tightly to evolutionary biology. Later I went on an expedition to Mount Kenya with a friend of mine and I became fascinated with a bird that lives in the alpine zones of the country 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ the scarlet tufted malachite sunbird. I managed to convince the 카지노게임사이트 of Cambridge to give me a scholarship to study these birds for my PhD. It was a fantastic three years.

I continued to work in behavioural ecology for most of my career, narrowing it down to sexual selection, how female birds decide on their mates. One of the biggest projects I worked on was on swallows, much the same species as we see here in Canada but in Europe. I studied the interplay of their aerials, aerodynamics, and their overall behaviour.

At a certain point, it started to get harder to do field work, for various reasons, and I also began to take on administrative work. I decided to change tack and started the climate change work. I was driven by this massively important question of what the impacts of climate change will mean and what will happen. That카지노 게임 컬렉션™s the fundamental question. Even small changes in precipitation and temperature have huge impacts on ecosystems. We can see that now all around us. What this group of us did, instead of waiting around for what might happen, we wanted to predict what might happen and then we would have some idea of where we were heading and we could work to put in strategies to mitigate this. We have produced very large computer models of ecosystems and how they work, and that카지노 게임 컬렉션™s where we are today, trying to make these predictions and share this information with governments and those responsible for managing estates and pieces of land, such as environmental trusts.

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You카지노 게임 컬렉션™ve held several leadership positions at universities around the world, including in Scotland, England, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. What drew you to Canada and to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s?

I want to be in places where I can feel that I can make a difference. Maintaining the status quo isn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t a particularly challenging thing to do, and I was convinced that there was a desire to do things differently here. I was convinced of this by the emphasis on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ that was something that very clearly mapped onto my own personal values and research. The idea of targeting a university to address those goals is a very attractive one. Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s is also a very good, U15 university and the Canadian system is very strong. All of those things make it an attractive place to be.

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What are your first impressions of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s and the community?

From the few events I카지노 게임 컬렉션™ve been to, I can see that there are hugely motivated people studying here, students who have already achieved so much; they are all very accomplished. It카지노 게임 컬렉션™s a great asset to have students of that caliber, and it카지노 게임 컬렉션™s incredibly impressive.

The challenging thing, and something that is new to me these days, is the dynamic between the university and the city. The universities I카지노 게임 컬렉션™ve been in have all been in very big cities 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ Hong Kong, Al Ain (UAE), London. Kingston is a small town, and we have approximately 30,000 students 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ that카지노 게임 컬렉션™s a challenging student body size to be absorbed into a relatively small place, and the potential for town-gown conflict is greater. In London, you can drop 50,000 students into the city and they will vanish; the same is true in Hong Kong. We have to do more work here looking after the relationship with the city than perhaps you do in a big city.

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Over the past months, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s current budget situation has been top of mind for many at the university. What are your priorities over the next few months, and looking ahead to the next few years?

The budget issue is the main issue and it has to be solved. The level of government investment in the post-secondary sector is not what it once was. We have to balance the books, and coming in right now, the budget deficit is big and we have to sort it out. It will subsume everything we want to do if we don카지노 게임 컬렉션™t address it. I think it카지노 게임 컬렉션™s solvable, but it카지노 게임 컬렉션™s going to be difficult and will require a new kind of thinking on how we do things.

Alongside the budget, I see the provost카지노 게임 컬렉션™s key role as delivering on the university strategy. The SDGs are very important for the strategy and it is important for us to think through what we are doing and how we are participating in achieving these goals. Delivering on the university카지노 게임 컬렉션™s strategic goals is made more difficult by the budget issue, but it can still be done.

Beyond that, I think the university needs to focus much more on its academic achievements, make sure it카지노 게임 컬렉션™s the best in the world in a number of areas. We have critical mass in a few research areas, which we can point to and say we are really good at this, particularly cancer trials and astroparticle physics. I think we could do with more and ensure that these research areas are noticed outside of Canada, and certainly outside of Ontario. We need to be a world player and we need to be in the global competition.

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Beyond these priorities, are there things you are looking forward to in the months ahead? Things that help balance the day-to-day?

I still go birdwatching, which is nice. There are ospreys and vultures flying around, and I am enjoying that a lot.

And I카지노 게임 컬렉션™m really looking forward to being in a seasonal environment again. I really like to see the change of the seasons 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ the trees changing colour, losing leaves. All of that is part of a natural rhythm that in a temperate environment you completely take for granted. I certainly did, in Hong Kong and the UAE. In Hong Kong, I would literally get confused about what time of year we were in 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ it카지노 게임 컬렉션™s impossible to know by looking around at the natural world.

It's obviously going to get very cold over the winter. The lake will be frozen. I think that카지노 게임 컬렉션™s cool. I카지노 게임 컬렉션™m actually really looking forward to it and watching the seasons go round.