Janet Simkin is a plant ecologist and lichenologist at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Her research has focused on grasslands and woodlands, especially post-anthropogenic sites such as lead mines and churchyards.
Simkin is also involved in scientific outreach and runs several adult education classes for Natural History Society of Northumbria as well as undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the university and biological record structures through the British Lichen Society.
[1] In 2008 she received the Ursula Duncan Award for outstanding service to the society.
These include: She is a member of the editorial board producing the revised and updated third edition of Lichens of Great Britain.