

Seeking Ph.D. applicants: Social dimensions of illegal wildlife trade
We are seeking expressions of interest from prospective Ph.D. students, to apply for funding for a Ph.D. scholarship to conduct research...


Amy Collis wins top prize
Proud to announce that Ph.D. student, Amy Collis, was just awarded the Maurice Swingland Prize for the best postgraduate student taught...


Workshop on Monitoring Socio-ecological systems
I was delighted to join a workshop hosted by Jonathan Rhodes at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED), based at...


Workshop: Philippines aquarium fish trade
This weekend we had a 2-day workshop in Hornby to hone a new, 1-year research project: Emily Malsack and Becca Turley will be...


William Sunderlin to visit LEC
William Sunderlin, a former colleague at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and a leading researcher on environmental...


Legal Atlas and Amir Sokolowski
Pleased to host Amir Sokolowski from The Legal Atlas Project to Lancaster for a talk entitled The ecosystem approach to environmental...


IUCN - Orchids
Amy Hinsley (University of Oxford) and I are serving as co-chairs of a new IUCN Species Survival Commission Sub-Group focused on the...


17th CITES CoP
New Ph.D. student, Amy Collis, and I have just returned from 2 weeks in South Africa, attending The 17th Conference of the Parties to...


Tools & terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade
Just out in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, our new paper argues that discussions wildlife trade are often too imprecise to...