Associate ProfessorJohn Perrott

Recent research includes investigations into environmental tolerances and size distributions of invasive land snail populations, designing and facilitating insect and small mammal tracking and monitoring system experiments for biosecurity and conservation applications, identifying New Zealand kookaburra range limitations and niche overlaps with native species, and disease ecology of speckled skinks in the Bay of Plenty Conservancy.

John has additional interests in the use of educational technology systems for achieving greater Maori representation in the biological sciences. At present, John is helping develop entry level whanau-based study programs that integrate self-directed and peer-mentoring methods with moodle and smart phone educational technology