Collective research and knowledge exchange
We have over a decade of proven evidence of successful collaboration.
Our interests and expertises coalesce to enable us to collectively identify novel questions, gather innovative data, contribute to academic debates and real-world problems and make a difference to people and planet through research and action. Our initial joint initiatives focused on understanding and addressing conservation conflicts, and on the human dimensions of jaguar conservation in Calakmul, Mexico. We have also explored the livelihoods of smallholders in this region, including experiences of and adaptation to climate change, intergenerational knowledge exchange, policy interventions, border crossing, conservation implications and community-based forestry practices. Wider interrogation of local issues has allowed us to contribute towards sustainable development as a way of visioning possible futures and pursuing these through fairer, nature-based strategies. Our primary interest remains the intersection of human wellbeing and ecological conservation in vulnerable communities and places. We seek to widen the scope of our activity whilst deepening local impact at a time of critical change in Mexico and beyond.
In addition to the collaborative work across our trio, each of us has worked and continues to work independently, bringing additional learning and experience to the collective. View our individual research.