Pat Monaghan

Patricia Monaghan is  Regius Professor of Zoology in the Institute of biodiversity, animal health & comparative medicine at the University of Glasgow.

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)