Holly Cope

My research interests include wildlife rehabilitation and conservation, marsupial biology, wildlife fertility control, and animal welfare. I have been fortunate to have a wide range of field experience from small mammal trapping and handling (including burrowing bettongs, bilbies, Tasmanian devils and possums) to the capture and handling of eastern grey kangaroos.

I completed my PhD entitled 'Wildlife Contraception as a Conservation Tool' in 2019 in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. I tutored the Wildlife Management Unit of Study in 2019 and then pursued my passion for animal welfare at RSPCA NSW, working in the Animal Cruelty Reporting department. I returned to the University of Sydney as a postdoctoral researcher in the Sydney School of Veterinary Science in 2021 to complete a project assessing the impacts of the 2019-20 bushfires on marsupial species and factors affecting survival after release from rehabilitation.

I am now an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.