Pat Monaghan

Education Monaghan was educated at Durham University where her PhD investigated the utilisation of urban resources by the herring gull Larus arqentatus.

Career and research Monaghan's research interests are in behavioural ecology, avian ecology, ornithology, molecular ecology and senescence. She has served as president of Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) since 2017.

Awards and honours She delivered the Tinbergen Lecture for ASAB in 2006 and the Witherby Memorial Lecture for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) in 2004. In 2011 she was appointed a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE). Other awards and honours include:

1997: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) 2002: Corresponding Fellow of the American Ornithologists Union 2017: Awarded the Godman-Salvin Medal by the British Ornithologists' Union 2017: Awarded the Frink Medal by Zoological Society of London 2015: Awarded the ASAB Medal 2024: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)