I am a conservation scientist at the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research at University College London.

My goal is to develop tools and insights that support sustainable human development and human-wildlife coexistence. I am particularly interested in how biodiversity responds to human activities, and how humans interact and derive benefits from their environment.

The answers to many conservation questions are at the intersection of traditional research disciplines. Therefore, I am very keen to explore new connections between conservation and other research areas. At the moment, I mainly draw from ecology, economics and human geography.

My research is focused on three major themes:

• Conservation and rewilding in agricultural landscapes. I am currently researching the ecosystem service and biodiversity impacts of agriculture and climate change within the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems - Southern Africa (SHEFS-SA) - a Wellcome Trust-funded project.
• Internal human migration in low and middle income countries in collaboration with WorldPop and Flowminder.
• How we value the environment. I have recently explored the role of spatial scale in the perceived value of nature as part of a UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing grant. The study has been published in Ecological Economics.

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