Oxford Brookes UniversitySocial Sciences research centres
Human interactions with and constructions of the environment
This group provides a forum for interdisciplinary research into livelihood economies, people-wildlife interactions, rural development and their relevance to conservation.
Areas of particular expertise include: changing land use and impacts on livelihood strategies, people-wildlife interactions, and human-induced disturbances on wildlife populations. Group members have extensive experience of fieldwork across Africa (West, East and South) and Southeast Asia. Research students have worked in a range of countries including Guinea Bissau, Uganda, and Columbia.
Current research
Dr Andrew Ainslie - political-economic and socio-cultural drivers of change in agrarian, conservation and development contexts in rural southern Africa, livelihood and food in/security, agricultural value chains
Dr Catherine Hill – people-wildlife interactions, developing people-wildlife conflict mitigation tools, livelihoods & natural resources and conservation implications
Dr Kimberly Hockings – Great Ape accommodation to anthropogenic environments
Dr Matthew McLennan – chimpanzees in agricultural landscapes
Dr Vincent Nijman - the effects of human-induced disturbances (logging, forest fires, hunting and trade) on animal populations in Southeast Asia
Dr Nancy Priston – human-wildlife conflict in Sulawesi, Indonesia, spatial models of crop raiding, local perceptions of risk in human-wildlife conflict scenarios
Dr Amanda Webber – farmer-wildlife conflict and perceptions of risk in Uganda
Group members
Staff
Honorary Research Associates
- Dr Kimberly Hockings (Postdoctoral researcher, New University of Lisbon and Oxford Brookes University)
- Dr Matthew McLennan
- Dr Amanda Webber
- and associated PhD students
