Steve is currently the vice chair of the Bat Conservation Trust in his role as a voluntary Trustee. His professional 'day' job is working as a Chartered Ecologist for a private ecological consultancy in the Midlands, UK although he specialises in bats which means it's less of a day job and more of a night role!

Steve became fascinated by bats at the age of 12 when he joined his local bat group and the Young Bat Workers' Club and hasn't looked back since. In his 23 years of working with bats he has encountered all of the UK's resident bat species and has met hundreds of like-minded conservationists all working towards the same aim of conserving our bat species. It was spending time with other conservationists that gave him the idea of producing BatChat to get all of the wonderful work going on up and down the country out there into the wider world. In 2023 Steve was named as the winner of the Pete Guest Award for his outstanding practical contribution to bat conservation.