Abridged CV (Full CV)

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Education

• PhD Computational Ecology – UCL London NERC DTP (2017-2021)
  • Thesis: Causes and consequences of pollinator biodiversity change in the the Anthropocene
• MSc Biodiversity and Conservation, Distinction (1st) – The University of Leeds (2014-2015)
  • Thesis: A Satellite Telemetry Investigation of Caspian Seal (Pusa caspica) Activity Budgets
• BSc Zoology, Upper second-class honours (2:1) – The University of Leeds (2011-2014)
  • Thesis: Of Molecules and Morphology: An Extended Review of the Eutherian Radiation

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Employment

• Bye-Fellow – St Edmund’s College (2025-present)
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow – the University of Cambridge (2024-present)
• Postdoctoral researcher – the Natural History Museum in London (2022-2024)
• Postdoctoral researcher – Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, the University of Oxford (2021-2022)
• Non-stipendiary Honorary Research Fellow – Nuffield College (2022)
• UCL Postgraduate teaching assistant (2019-2021)
• Programme Assistant – UNEP-WCMC (September 2016-June 2017)
• Publishing Assistant – Nature Publishing Group (November 2015-September 2016)
• Research Assistant – Action for the Wild (Summer 2014) & Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit (June 2016)

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Publications

Peer reviewed

1. Skinner, G., Cooke, R., Roy, H. E., Isaac, N. J. B., Outhwaite, C. L., Rodger, J., & Millard, J., Global meta-analysis reveals overall negative impacts of invasive species on terrestrial insects, despite highly variable responses. Nature Communications (accepted)
2. Barnes, L., Wenban-Smith, Skinner, G., E., Dicks, L., Millard, J., & Bladon, A., (2025). Differing impacts of livestock farming and ranching on aquatic insect biodiversity: A global meta-analysis. Global Change Biology. 31(9), p.e70513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70513.
3. Millard, J., Skinner, G., Bladon, A. J., Cooke, R., Outhwaite, C. L., Rodger, J. G., Barnes, L. A., Isip, J., Keum, J., Raw, C., Wenban-Smith, E., Dicks, L. V., Hui, C., Jones, J. I., Woodcock, B., Isaac, N. J., & Purvis, A. (2025). A multi-threat meta-analytic database for understanding insect biodiversity change. Diversity and Distributions. 31(5), p.e70025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70025.
4. Cooke, R., Outhwaite, C. L., Bladon, A. J., Millard, J., Rodger, J. G., Dong, Z., Dyer, E. E., Edney, S., Murphy, J. F., Dicks, L. V., Hui, C., Jones, J. I., Newbold, T., Purvis, A., Roy, H. E., Woodcock, B. A. & Isaac, N. J. B. (2025). Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change. Science. 388, no. 6742. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq2110.
5. Johnson, T.F., Millard, J., & Evans, L.C., (2025). More work is needed to identify how people perceive and value nature. Nature Reviews Biodiversity. pp.1-2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00047-8.
6. Williams, J., Newbold, T., Millard, J., Groner, V., & Pearson, R., (2024). Important pollinators respond less negatively to anthropogenic land use than other animals. Ecology and Evolution. 14(11), p.e70486. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70486.
7. Millard, J., Christie, A., Dicks, L., Isip, J., Johnson, T.F., Skinner, G., & Spake, R., (2024). ChatGPT is likely reducing opportunity for support, friendship, and learned kindness in research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(10), pp.1764-1766. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14395.
8. Johnson, T.F., Simmons, B., Millard, J., Strydom, T., Danet A., & Evans, L., (2024). Pressure to publish introduces LLM risks. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(10), pp.1771-1773. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14397.
9. Outhwaite, C.L., Cooke, R., Millard, J. & Bladon, A.J., (2024). Pervasive and synergistic effects of climate change. In Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation (pp. 92-107). Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003285793-9
10. Bladon, A.J., Cooke, R., Millard, J. & Outhwaite, C.L., (2024). Practical solutions to climate change for insect conservation. In Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation (pp. 108-118). Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003285793-10
11. Scheepens, D., Millard, J., Farrell, M., & Newbold, T., (2024). Large language models help facilitate the automated synthesis of information on potential pest controllers. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(7), pp.1261-1273. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14341.
12. Veríssimo, D., Johnson, T.F., Millard, J., & Roll, U., (2023). Adopt digital tools to monitor social dimensions of the global biodiversity framework. Conservation Letters. 17(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12991.
13. Millard, J., Outhwaite, C.L., Ceaușu, S., Carvalheiro, L.G., da Silva e Silva, F.D., Dicks, L.V., Ollerton, J. & Newbold, T., (2023). Key tropical crops at risk from pollinator loss due to climate change and land use. Science Advances. 9(41), p.eadh0756. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0756.
14. Johnson, T.F., Cornford, R., Dove, S., Freeman, R., & Millard, J., (2023). Achieving a real‐time online monitoring system for conservation culturomics. Conservation Biology. 37(4), p.e14096. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14096.
15. Skinner, G., Cooke, R., Keum, J., Purvis, A., Raw, C., Woodcock, B.A., & Millard, J., (2023). Dynameta: A dynamic platform for ecological meta-analyses in R Shiny. SoftwareX. 23, p.101439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101439.
16. Cornford, R., Millard, J., González‐Suárez, M., Freeman, R., & Johnson, T.F., (2022). Automated synthesis of biodiversity knowledge requires better tools and standardised research output. Ecography. 2022(3), p.e06068. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06068.
17. Millard, J., Gregory, R.D., Jones, K.E. & Freeman, R., (2021). The species awareness index as a conservation culturomics metric for public biodiversity awareness. Conservation Biology. 35(2), pp.472-482. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13701.
18. Millard, J., Outhwaite, C.L., Kinnersley, R., Freeman, R., Gregory, R.D., Adedoja, O., Gavini, S., Kioko, E., Kuhlmann, M., Ollerton, J. Ren, Z.X., & Newbold T., (2021). Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity. Nature Communications. 12(1), p.2902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23228-3.
19. Millard, J., Freeman, R. & Newbold, T., (2020). Text‐analysis reveals taxonomic and geographic disparities in animal pollination literature. Ecography. 43(1), pp.44-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04532.
20. Newbold, T., Adams, G.L., Albaladejo Robles, G. ,Boakes, E.H., Braga Ferreira, G., Chapman, A.S., Etard, A., Gibb, R., Millard, J., Outhwaite, C.L., Williams, J.J. & Newbold, T., (2019). Climate and land-use change homogenise terrestrial biodiversity, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 3(2), pp.207-219. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20180135.

In prep

21. Millard, J., Akimova, E., Ding, X., Leasure, D., Zhao, B., Mills, M., Stringent COVID-19 government restrictions were associated with a marked increase in Twitter activity in Europe. SocArXiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/g9apk
22. Millard, J. Mobilising central bank digital currency to bend the curve of biodiversity loss. EcoEvoRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32942/X2TC7H
23. Cooke, R., Outhwaite, C., Bladon, A., Millard, J., Rodger, J., Dong, Z., Dyer E., Edney, S., Murphy, J., Dicks, L., Hui, C., Jones, I., Newbold, T., Purvis, A., Roy, H., Woodcock, B., & Isaac, N. J. B. Insect Insect Time Series (IN-TIME), a database of worldwide insect trends
24. Wenban-Smith, E., Barnes, L., Millard, J., Dicks, L., Turner, E,. Bladon, A., Meta-analysis of extreme temperature effects on the abundance and survival of Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera
25. Outhwaite, C., Purvis A., Newbold, T., Bladon, A., Cooke, R., Millard, J., Dicks L., Isaac, N., The response of Hymenopteran (Bees, Wasps & Ants) biodiversity to a changing world
26. Millard, J., Varah, A., Isip, J., Tudge, S., Contu, S., Burton, V., Johnson, T., Purvis, A., De Palma, A., Predictions of biodiversity change are question dependent

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