Laura-Li was an ENVISION DTP NERC funded PhD student at Lancaster Environment Centre, supervised by Prof Nick Graham, Dr Casey Benkwitt, Dr Gareth Williams (Bangor University), and Dr Simon Brandl (University of Texas). Laura-Li’s research focused on understanding how fish communities differ across changing environmental conditions. In particular, she looked at how cryptobenthic fishes’ abundance, diversity, trophic role and recruitment dynamics varied according to nutrient input, drawing on both community ecology and population genetics.