Tim Cockerill FRES is an zoologist, broadcaster and photographer in the UK, he is Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University and has a particular interest in Insects.
[1] Cockerill grew in Hull in Yorkshire, he studied a Zoology BSc and MRes at the University of Leeds and then a PhD in Insect Ecology and Biodiversity at the University of Cambridge; he moved to the Natural History Museum to do postdoctoral research and then did a Masters in Science Media Production at Imperial College London.
[9] In 2017 he presented a series of BBC World Service The Evidence episodes with Claudia Hammond about the relationships between humans and animals,[10] this included a live event at the Wellcome Collection,[11] He contributed to the Guardian podcast episode 'Challenge of taxonomy and defining species' in 2018.
[17] Cockerill was awarded a Science Media Studentship from the Wellcome Trust in 2012–2014,[18] He was runner up in the British Ecological Society's photography competition in 2013 for his image of an oil palm plantation in Borneo.
[19] In 2014 his image of Wallace's beetle Cyriopalus wallacei won first prize in the Royal Entomological Society's National Insect Week photography competition category 'Small is Beautiful'[20] and in 2020 he became chair of the judging panel, working with Ashleigh Whiffin.