The Natural Environment Research Council
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Jonathan Morley
Jonathan's research aims to examine the success of environmental safeguards in international development projects

Quantifying the effects of development projects on biodiversity conservation in West Africa.
Jonathan's research aims to examine the success of environmental safeguards in international development projects

Conservation conflicts: Behavioural threats, frames, and intervention recommendations
The choice of conflict management interventions should be based on evidence of their effectiveness, but other factors such as the way a conflict is framed appear to play an important role.

Mental health in a conservation landscape: psychological dynamics of living in proximity to primates in western Uganda
Tom’s research seeks to understand the ways that living alongside wildlife can affect people’s mental health, particularly in relation to disease transmission

Dteu srok Khmer veng (Back to Cambodia)
An update on Emiel's PhD research as he heads back out to Cambodia.

Harriet’s fieldwork diaries
Catch up with Harriet's video diaries documenting her recent field season in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia

Fieldwork: deeper into the forest
Emiel's latest update about his fieldwork and all the challenges of surveying households in rural Cambodia.

Thomas Pienkowski
Tom’s research seeks to understand the ways that living alongside wildlife can affect people’s mental health, particularly in relation to disease transmission.

Fieldwork: Getting stuck in
Emiel describes the first phase of his PhD fieldwork: a survey of ten villages, spread across two protected areas in Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province

The start of fieldwork: a first pilot study
"Let this be a warning to my future self: one month into the trip and none of this has gone as planned..."