Team & Partners

Dr Eleanor Starkey

  • Independent Research Advisor in Hydrology & Citizen Science
  • Twitter: @starkeyele
  • UpStream Responsibilities: planning, delivery and evaluation of knowledge exchange events, and providing citizen science engagement and monitoring support.

Eleanor has a combined background in the academia, industry and charity sectors. She has specialised in hydrology, flood risk management, hydrometric monitoring, modelling, community/stakeholder involvement and nature-based methods inside and outside academia for over ten years. Eleanor’s PhD enabled her to explore the feasibility, reliability, value and sustainability of citizen science in catchment science. 

Eleanor is particularly passionate about cross-disciplinary and participatory projects, and values input from non-academic stakeholders to ensure environmental projects are meaningful and relevant to people on the ground.