I am interested in understanding the links between human behaviour, well-being and conservation. Much of my research focuses on conservation conflict together with investigating the prevalence and drivers of peoples’ involvement in unlawful resource extraction. However, gathering robust data on rule breaking directly from people is challenging. For this reason, my group and I test cutting-edge social science techniques for asking people sensitive questions. Our work draws widely from social science disciplines in order to strengthen levels of understanding on what drives conservation-related behaviour including rule breaking and the differing levels of tolerance people exhibit for co-existing with wildlife.
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Publications
- Opinions of the public, conservationists and magistrates on sentencing wildlife trade crimes in the UK
- Robust study design is as important on the social as it is on the ecological side of applied ecological research
- How to ask sensitive questions in conservation: A review of specialized questioning techniques
- Dynamics of the global trade in live reptiles: Shifting trends in production and consequences for sustainability
- Data collected using the randomised response technique must be analysed using specialised statistical methods
- Changing livelihoods and protected area management: a case study of charcoal production in south-west Madagascar
- Conservation and human behaviour: lessons from social psychology
- Elephant conservation and corruption beyond the ivory trade
- Innovative techniques for estimating illegal activities in a human-wildlife-management conflict
- Effective conservation depends upon understanding human behaviour
- Biology's drones: Undermined by fear
- Towards a new understanding of the links between poverty and illegal wildlife hunting
- Evaluating deterrents of illegal behaviour in conservation: Carnivore killing in rural Taiwan
- Identifying indicators of illegal behaviour: carnivore killing in human-managed landscapes
- Assessing and sentencing illegal behaviours in conservation
- Wildlife consumption and recall accuracy--but is it recall of hunting, of cooking or of eating?
- New rhino conservation project in South Africa to understand landowner decision-making
- Estimating the prevalence of researcher misconduct: a study of UK academics within biological sciences
- Addressing human-tiger conflict using socio-ecological information on tolerance and risk
- Experimental validation of specialized questioning techniques in conservation
- A mixed methods approach for measuring topic sensitivity in conservation
- Asking sensitive questions in conservation using Randomised Response Techniques
- Beyond the community in participatory forest management: A governance network perspective
- Toward improved impact evaluation of community forest management in Indonesia
- Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes
- Analyzing procedural equity in government-led community-based forest management
- The bean method as a tool to measure sensitive behavior
- Audience segmentation to improve targeting of conservation interventions for hunters
- Topic sensitivity still affects honest responding, even when specialized questioning techniques are used
- The role of risk perception and affect in predicting support for conservation policy under rapid ecosystem change
- Heterogeneous impacts of community forestry on forest conservation and poverty alleviation: Evidence from Indonesia
- Value diversity and conservation conflict: Lessons from the management of red grouse and hen harriers in England
- Using consumer preferences to characterize the trade of wild‐collected ornamental orchids in China
- Intention to kill: Tolerance and illegal persecution of Sumatran tigers and sympatric species
- Practitioner and scientist perceptions of successful amphibian conservation
- Asking sensitive questions using the unmatched count technique: Applications and guidelines for conservation
- Consequences of survey method for estimating hunters' harvest rates
- Improving well‐being and reducing deforestation in Indonesia's protected areas
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Co-workers & collaborators
- HI
Harriet Ibbett
Postdoctoral Researcher - UK
- LD
Leejiah Dorward
- AA
Asri A Dwiyahreni
- EM
Edward M Kohi
- JJ
Julia Jones
- SS
Stephen Sankeni