Imperial College London
Silwood Park Campus
Buckhurst Road
Ascot
SL5 7PY
Current research
I am currently a researcher on the Valuing Nature Network (VNN) project, ‘Capturing differentiated experience of change to ensure pro-poor ecosystem service interventions are fit for purpose’. The project is an interdisciplinary assessment of interactions between ecosystem service interventions and individual wellbeing. Interventions to improve management of natural resources typically occur within dynamic ecological, social, and economic contexts, and the wellbeing of those most vulnerable to the impacts of change is often inadequately addressed. The project explores concepts and measurement of individual wellbeing while developing locally-appropriate tools to capture differentiated experience of change, aiming to integrate wellbeing into the wider research and policy agenda.
My previous research has addressed human-wildlife interactions, monitoring techniques, and wildlife ecology. This has included methods to mitigate human-wildlife conflict, wildlife and human behaviour, analysis of the dynamics of crop-raiding, developing deterrents to raiding, participatory monitoring, fisheries issues, and assessing the impacts of conservation for local people. I am also interested in how local livelihoods may be enhanced through viable business ventures to support conservation.
Brief CV
2012 to date Research Associate, VNN Project, Imperial College London, UK
2011 to date MBA programme, Durham University, UK
2009 to 2011 Research Assistant, Artisanal Fishery and Livelihoods Project, ICCS and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Madagascar
2005 to 2010 PhD programme, Oxford Brookes University, UK
2005 to 2005 Research Assistant, Sea Around Us Contaminants Project, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada
2004 to 2005 MSc Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University, UK
2003 to 2004 Technician, Steller Sea Lion Physiology and Energetics Project, Marine Mammal Research Unit, University of British Columbia, Canada
2001 to 2003 Research Assistant, Mountain Gorilla Project, Karisoke Research Centre, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, Rwanda
2001 to 2001 Research Assistant, Killer Whale and Fishery Interactions Project, Beaveridge Consulting and DFO Canada, Robson Bight, Canada
Prior to 2001
Rhinowatch: white rhinoceros monitoring, Otjiwa Reserve, Namibia
Natal Parks Board: large mammal census, Hluhluwe NP, South Africa
Kewalo Basin Marine Lab: humpback whale research, Maui, USA
Rhinowatch: black rhinoceros monitoring, Hwange NP, Zimbabwe
Bimini Biological Field Station; lemon shark research, Bimini, Bahamas
Centre for Whale Research: killer whale monitoring, Puget Sound, USA
Business consulting and general management in Australia.
