Meet our Team

All training courses are taught by professional and practicing Ecological Consultants.


Sue Searle BSc, PGDip, MCIEEM is the Senior Tutor, Managing Director and Principal Ecologist at ETUK. She has 17 years’ experience in ecology consultancy and has been teaching ecology courses for 15 years.

She holds protected species licences for dormice and bats. Sue is committed to training future ecologists and sharing her passion for wildlife.

Sue ran Acorn Ecology from 2003 to 2019 and now runs Ecology Training UK.

She won a National Training Award in 2009 and has taught at Greenwich University, Bristol University, Exeter University, Bicton College and also for the Mammal Society and Field Studies Council.

A range of other expert tutors also work ad-hoc for ETUK.

Sue Searle, BSc, PGDip, MCIEEM, Senior Tutor, Principal Ecologist, Managing Director of Ecology Training UK Ltd.