Ms Hannah Ladd-Jones
Research and Capacity Building Manager
Research areas
Since 2025, Hannah has been the Research and Capacity Building Manager for Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). A newly established role where she will be instrumental in managing the research groups and forums within MASTS and assisting in the continuation of MASTS PhD graduate school. MASTS is a consortium made up on 18 partner institutions, all with a vested interest in the marine and aquatic environment. Hannah also runs MASTS social media and external communications streams ensuring the MASTS community is up-to-date and creating a two-way interaction between researchers and the audiences.
In 2023, Hannah was the Engagement Coordinator for MASTS promoting Scotland's marine research excellence its partner organisations to both the public and policys. Previously, Hannah was part of the People Ocean Planet team, coordinator of the Coastal Resources Management Group and Project Manager for the Sustainable Fisheries Interactions and Conservation of Elasmobranchs in Scottish seas; Project Manager for the £1.5m EMFF Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS) Project. She was also a researcher for the Fishpi2 project looking into electronic data collection and reporting systems and trials for Northern European small-scale fisheries.
Selected publications
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Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS): Work package 1 final report: Review and optimisation of shellfish data collection strategies for Scottish inshore waters
Mouat, B., Bergh, M., Shelmerdine, R. L., Leach, K., Ladd-Jones, H. (Editor) & James, M. A. (Editor), 18 Feb 2021, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 199 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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SIFIDS Work Package 10: Project management - Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS)
Ladd-Jones, H. & James, M. A., 2020, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 37 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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SIFIDS Work Package 7: Engagement with inshore sector to promote and inform
Orr, K., McKnight, A., Logan, K., Ladd-Jones, H. (Editor) & James, M. A. (Editor), 2020, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 40 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Electronic reporting and collection of data on Scotland’s small-scale inshore fishing fleet
Ladd-Jones, H. E., Mendo , T. & James, M. A., Feb 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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Scavenger communities and fisheries waste: North Sea discards support 3 million seabirds, 2 million fewer than in 1990
Sherley, R. B., Ladd-Jones, H., Garthe, S., Stevenson, O. & Votier, S. C., 8 Nov 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fish and Fisheries. Early View, 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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SIFIDS Work Package 2A: Development and pilot deployment of an autonomous fisheries data harvesting system; and Work Package 2B: Investigation into the availability and adaptability of novel technological approaches to data collection
Ayers, R., Course, G. P., Pasco, G. R., Ladd-Jones, H. (Editor) & James, M. A. (Editor), 2019, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 183 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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SIFIDS: Work Package 3: development of a novel, automated mechanism for the collection of scallop stock data
Bates, C. R., Chocholek, M., Fox, C., Howe, J., Jones, N., Ladd-Jones, H. (Editor) & James, M. A. (Editor), 2019, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 95 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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SIFIDS Work Package 5: identifying fishing activities and their associated drivers
James, M. A., Mendo, T., Ladd-Jones, H., McCann, P., Crowe, S., Coram, A. J. & Northridge, S., 2019, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 75 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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SIFIDS Work Package 6a: Development of a relational database and user interface
James, M. A., Ladd-Jones, H., McCann, P., Crowe, S. & Mendo, T., 2019, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 31 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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SIFIDS Work Package 6: Development of a pilot relational data resource for the collation and interpretation of inshore fisheries data
Tidd, A. N., Ayers, R. A., Course, G. P., Pasco, G. R., Ladd-Jones, H. (Editor) & James, M. A. (Editor), 2019, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS). 52 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report