My pronouns are she/her
I completed my BSc Zoology at Anglia Ruskin University, where my dissertation focussed on the Conservancy Effect seen in African Lions at Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya. This work was awarded the Royal Society of Biology Prize for Best Project, and Best BSc Zoology Project. I then completed a UNIQ+ internship with WildCRU conducting a situational analysis on trophy hunting under the supervision of Prof. Amy Dickman, and Prof. Dilys Roe as part of the IUCN's Sustainable Livelihood Group. This work is ongoing as we continue to finalise findings of the analysis into a report published for the IUCN. In 2023, I began my MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at the University of Oxford where I took electives in Remote Sensing and Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence. My dissertation explored various ecogeographical, household, and boma-level predictors on rates of livestock depredation in the village lands surrounding Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, in collaboration with Lion Landscapes. This work laid the foundation for strengthening my interdisciplinarity as a conservationist, which I now continue to develop through my DPhil.
I have since started my DPhil at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford. My research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of wildlife stewardship programmes in lion conservation. Using participatory methods, we work to co-define and measure programme success in terms of societal and conservation outcomes, while also exploring the impact of environmental change (caused by climate change and anthropogenic impact) on programme longevity and resilience. I am supervised by Dr Paul Johnson (WildCRU), Dr Stephanie Brittain (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent) and Lessah Mandoloma (Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS); University of Malawi).