Dr David Harrison
Chairman of Trustees
E-mail: hzm@btinternet.com
Primary interests:

• Mammal taxonomy and natural history, especially Arabia, Africa and Eurasia
• Old World bats
• Palaeontology – Quaternary and Tertiary mammals in Britain and continental Europe

Short Biography
1971-present: Chairman of Trustees of the Harrison Institute
1955-1967: PhD in Arabian mammal taxonomy, University of Cambridge
1946-1952: MA, MB, BCh, University of Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital
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Dr Paul Bates
Director
E-mail: harrisoninstitute@btinternet.com
Primary interests:

• Mammal taxonomy, especially bats and small mammals and particularly in the Old World tropics and subtropics
• Building in-country capacity in alpha taxonomy in academic institutions
• Developing regional/international taxonomic networks, which involve
• Collaborative research
• The exchange of expertise and data
• Exchange of staff and students

Short Biography:
1994 - present: Director, Harrison Institute
2008 – present: Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Bristol
1987 - 1994: Scientific officer, Harrison Institute
1982 - 1987: Ph.D. in rodent taxonomy and zoogeography, Royal Holloway College, University of London and Harrison Institute.
1979 - 1982: BA/MA in Geography, University of Oxford
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Malcolm Pearch
Researcher and Trust Manager
E-mail: hzm@btinternet.com
Primary interest:

• Zoogeography of small mammals with particular reference to distribution patterns in the terrestrial ecoregions of the Himalayas

Primary responsibility:

• Management of The Harrison Zoological Museum Trust

Short Biography:
1998 - present: Researcher and Trust Manager, Harrison Institute
2006 – 2009: M.Phil in small mammal biodiversity in Nepal, University of Aberdeen and Harrison Institute
1982 – 1986: LL.B., Cardiff University.
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