PhD Candidate, School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
Emily Harper is an ecologist specialising in hedgehog health, behaviour and stress. Her research focuses on parasites and their relationships with their host, the hedgehog. She is interested in the way parasites can impact health, change behaviour and the interactions between parasites and stress.
Harper is a part-time PhD candidate at Nottingham Trent University after completing a MSc in Applied Ecology at the University of Gloucestershire, where she continues to guest lectures on wildlife rehabilitation ethics.
She is the manager at Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue, a well established hedgehog charity that has been running since 2016. Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue admits over 500 hedgehogs into rehabilitation annually and Harper is dedicated to rescuing hedgehogs and improving the care hedgehogs receive in rehabilitation.