Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street
London,
WC1H 0BW
UK
Research interests
I am interested in natural resource use and local livelihoods. Of particular interest are the combined influences of tourism organisations and biodiversity conservation initiatives on rural peoples livelihood activities, strategies and use of the natural environment.
Current research
My study site is in northern Mozambique where tourism is used as a tool by the Government to boost the national economy and address poverty and natural resource concerns. Together, tourism and conservation initiatives carry with them costs and benefits which differ on a variety of scales; international, national and local. Despite national benefits, at the local level benefits from tourism appear to be unequally distributed.
The spatial distribution of resources guides where conservation initiatives are focused and informs harvesters choices when making resource use decisions. In order to understand the distributional effects of conservation and tourism initiatives within resource users community I will take a spatial approach, and explicitly consider the impacts of these initiatives on marginalised groups such as women. Supervision and Funding My PhD is superivised by Professor Kathryn Homewood and Dr Carolin Garaway (University College London) and Professor EJ Milner-Gulland (Imperial College London). It is jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Brief CV
- 2007 Research Assistant for the World Fish Center, Cairo
- 2006 Researcher, commissoned by NORAD, Mozambique
- 2005 Technoserve consultant, Mozambique
- 2004-2005 MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Mangement, Oxford University
- 2003 Volunteer co-ordinator, SOS, Bali
- 1999-2003 BSc in Conservation Biology, Aberdeen University
Presentations and talks
- Seminar on MPAs: Fisheries Forum. Marine Protected Areas (MPA) – a useful tool in fisheries management? Comparative experiences and lessons from developing countries and Norway, September 2006.
- INOC (Inter Islamic Sciences and Technology Network on Oceanography) Conference on Coastal Marine Resource Management, Dakar, Senegal November 2006.
