I am an award-winning interdisciplinary conservation scientist with over 12 years’ experience using research to design, test, and scale solutions to the biodiversity crisis across diverse social-ecological systems. My work bridges behavioural science, ecological economics, community-based conservation, and policy and private sector engagement, with a central focus on answering a simple but challenging question: how can we deliver positive outcomes for both nature and people?
My research examines which interventions, policies, and incentive structures change individual and organisational behaviour and lead to measurable ecological and social gains. I work at multiple scales, from co-designing and experimentally testing incentive-based behaviour change programs for biodiversity and wellbeing outcomes in coastal communities, to designing ‘Nature Positive’ commitments and structural interventions which can manage aggregate supply an demand for environmentally-damaging goods and services, internalise environmental externalities, and facilitate distributive justice through wealth redistribution.
Through my work with the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, I aim to contribute evidence and practical tools to support transformative, equitable, and durable nature recovery.
