Scottish Bat Workers' Conference

Date of next conference: Saturday 1st March 2025

Book your place for the Scottish Bat Worker's Conference here!

In-person booking deadline: 17/02/25

Virtual booking deadline: 21/02/25

The Scottish conference will provide an opportunity for volunteer and professional bat workers across Scotland to spend time together: updating their knowledge, sharing best practice, developing their skills and catching up on the latest 'bat chat'.

The Scottish Bat Conference will take place in the Pathfoot Building at Stirling University, as well as an online event this year. Presentations will include an update on the Species on the Edge Project, which explores bats in more remote areas of Scotland; a talk about mass pipistrelle hibernation sites in Northumberland, including frost swarming behaviour of this species; the intriguing case of a small Myotis bat in Scotland; a discussion session on bat priorities for Scotland; a PhD project on bats in agricultural landscapes, and some speed-updates from bat groups around Scotland. For in-person attendees, there will of course be time to mingle with other bat enthusiasts during coffee and lunch breaks, too.

The last conference was held in March 2023

The conference was held at Stirling University as a joint event with the universities’ Biological & Environmental Sciences and will be run as a hybrid event (online and in person).

The Scottish conference provided an opportunity for volunteer and professional bat workers across Scotland to spend time together: update their knowledge, share best practice, develop their skills and catch up on the latest 'bat chat'. The 2023 Scottish Bat Conference was held at Stirling University as a joint event with the universities’ Biological & Environmental Sciences.

The day will included spotlight talks from various bat groups across Scotland, longer talks on projects or sharing new knowledge and research talks.

There was a regional priorities discussion session at the end of the day, which will provided a forum for bat workers to share questions, successes and priorities for bat work in Scotland.

NB there are no workshops as part of the Scottish conference programme, but every second year is the Spring Into Action event, which is a full workshop day. To find out about the 2024 Spring Into Action day follow the link: https://www.bats.org.uk/our-wo...