{"id":196,"date":"2019-11-12T16:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/social-and-applied-ecology\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:35:05","slug":"tom-oliver","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/social-and-applied-ecology\/tom-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Oliver is a Professor in Ecology and Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research (Environment) at the University of Reading.\u00a0 He regularly advises the UK government and the European Environment Agency on envir\"\"onmental topics. Tom is a frequent contributor to broadcast media, including BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Channel 4 and ITV News, and the mainstream press\u00a0 such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Hindu <\/span>Times, New Scientist, Guardian, The Times, Independent and Telegraph.\u00a0 In addition he regularly gives talks on environmental science to general audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom has published more than 100 scientific papers in world-leading interdisciplinary journals and won two first-place prizes for essays communicating science to a bro<\/span>ader audience. He won the Marsh Award for Entomology in 2014 for outstanding contributions to Entomology. He currently lives in Oxfordshire, UK. His first book <\/span>The Self Delusion<\/a><\/strong> was published in January 2020, and The Nature Delusion<\/a><\/strong> will be published in Mar 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom has advised the UK government through secondments with Defra (designing a ‘systems research programme’) and the Government Office for Science. He currently sits on the Food Standards Authority science council and expert college for the Office for Environmental Protection. He has advised the European Commission through membership of the EEA scientific committee and bespoke presentations.<\/p>\n

For contact details and more information about Tom’s research see here<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for details of my Research Group<\/a><\/p>\n

What work is my real passion and gets me up in the morning?! See my Oct 2024 talk at the Univ. of Oxford Leverhulme Centre for Nature<\/em> recovery here<\/a><\/p>\n

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