My pronouns are she/her
I completed my BSc (Hons) at the University of St Andrews in 2021, where my dissertation focused on using individual-based modelling to identify the drivers of a foraging behaviour known as local enhancement. I have since contributed to various research projects, using both modelling and fieldwork approaches. I am now conducting a PhD (DPhil) at the University of Oxford, for which I am supported by a NERC DTP and Balliol College Anderson scholarship.
My current research focuses on human-carnivore conflict and combines fieldwork, the analysis of multi-site datasets, and simulation modelling. My project involves:
1) Identifying and testing new approaches to studying livestock depredation events, by better understanding carnivore and livestock behaviour at various stages of the depredation process.
2) Using simulations to understand the long-term population effects of conflict-related killing and of short-term shocks in populations of lions (Panthera leo) living alongside humans, both in Africa and Asia.
Overall, I am interested in combining field and computational techniques to better understand ecological systems, with a particular interest in behavioural ecology. Though my PhD work focuses on African carnivores, I am interested in a variety of taxa and ecosystems, having previously conducted fieldwork in France, Malawi, Peru, and Uganda.
