University of Kent

Present PhD and MRes students

Nicola Abram - Designing a conservation corridor in an oil palm dominated landscape: applying an integrated, systematic conservation planning approach in Sabah, Borneo
Supervisors:Dr RJ Smith, Professor DC MacMillan and Dr I Lackman-Ancrenaz (HUTAN)

Rachel Bristol - Ecology, conservation genetics and restoration of the critically-endangered Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone corvina) and a comparison of the evolutionary history of Indian Ocean flycatchers.
Supervisor: Dr J Groombridge

Claire Browne - Investigation of Genetic Variation of White Clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) populations across south-east England
Supervisor: Dr J Groombridge

Jaime Cabrera - Natural licks, traditional knowledge and subsistence hunting in the Colombian Amazon
Supervisor: Dr RE Bodmer

Mary Campling - Detection of reptiles on Surrey Heaths
Supervisor: Professor RA Griffiths

Emily Caruso - Pluralistic approaches to co-management of protected areas in Peru
Supervisor: Dr HS Newing

Oswaldo Carvalho Jr - Large mammal conservation in a agro-industrial frontier of the Brazilian Amazon.
Supervisor: Dr RE Bodmer

Dan Challender - The trade and conservation of pangolins in Asia.
Supervisors: Professor SR Harrop and Professor DC MacMillan

Mark Darmaraj - Conserving tigers in Malaysia
Supervisors: Professor N Leader-Williams, Dr M Linkie and Dr RJ Smith

Enrico Di Minin - Conservation planning and megafaunal reintroductions in Maputaland
Supervisors: Dr RJ Smith, Professor DC MacMillan, Professor N Leader-Williams and Professor R Slotow (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Zerihun Doda Doffana - Medicinal plants and traditional knowledge systems: conservation and management values of sacred sites of selected sommunities in Southwest Ethiopia
Supervisors: Professor SR Harrop and Dr Anna Waldstein

Charlie Gardner -  Reconciling conservation and development within Madagascar’s rapidly expanding protected area system
Supervisor: Professor DC MacMillan

Leonie Gordon - Political ecology of the bushmeat trade in Cameroon
Supervisors: Professor D Zeitlyn (Anthropology) and Professor SR Harrop

Abishek Harihar - Assessing Viability of Tiger Population in the Western Terai Arc Landscape, India.
Supervisors: Professor DC MacMillan, Dr RJ Smith and Bivash Pandav (Wildlife Institute of India)

Rona Hodges - The effects of Shoreline Management Plans on the overwintering Brent geese and turnstone populations on the North Kent coast
Supervisor: Dr Peter Bennett

Erika Ikemoto - Agroforestry extension and protected areas of Brazilian Amazon - lessons from on-going experiences
Supervisor: Dr HS Newing

Chloe Inskip - The socio-economics of human-tiger conflict: patterns, perceptions and impacts.
Supervisors: Professor DC MacMillan and Professor N Leader-Williams

Hazel Jackson - Population genetics of invasive species: characterising population genetic history and disease prevalence in the introduced population of ringneck parakeets (Psittacula krameri) in the UK
Supervisors: Dr Jim Groombridge and Professor Byron Morgan (NCSE, IMSAS)

Winnie Kiiru - Human-elephant conflict in Amboseli, Kenya
Supervisor: Professor N Leader-Williams and Dr RJ Smith

Brett Lewis - Ecological and economic cost-effectiveness of mitigation actions
Supervisors: Dr RA Griffiths and Professor DC MacMillan

Kristian Metcalfe - Investigating the biological and socio-economic impacts of potential marine protected area networks in the Eastern English Channel
Supervisor: Dr RJ Smith, Professor SR Harrop and Dr S Vaz (Ifremer)

Constanza Monterrubio - Community Conserved Areas vs. Private Protected Areas in Mexico
Supervisor: Dr HS Newing and Dr RJ Smith

Hanna Mounce - Recovery of the endangered Kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill, Pseudonestor xanthophrys): population dynamics, conservation genetics and strategies for reintroduction
Supervisors: Dr Jim Groombridge

Bruno Nhancale - Strengthening and mainstreaming the Maputaland systematic conservation planning system
Supervisors: Dr RJ Smith, Professor N Leader-Williams and Dr P Goodman (Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife)

Rajeev Raghavan - Fisheries, livelihoods and conservation in the forest streams of Western Ghats Hotspot, India
Supervisors: Dr Alison Rosser and Professor DC MacMillan

Eric Ramírez Bravo - Conservation of the Mexican jaguar in Sonora
Supervisor: Dr RE Bodmer

Dilys Roe - Linkages between poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation
Supervisor: Professor N Leader-Williams

Samia Saif - Investigating tiger poaching in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh
Supervisor: Professor DC MacMillan and Professor Md. Anwarul Islam

Jennifer Sears - Invasive species as vectors of disease and amphibian population declines
Supervisor: Professor RA Griffiths, Dr Trent Garner (IoZ) and Dr Andrew Cunningham (IoZ)

Noga Shanee - The Critically Endangered O. flavicauda and the dynamics of threats and conservation efforts for the Tropical Andean Hotspots in Amazonas and San Martin, Peru.
Supervisor: Professor SR Harrop

Rehema Shoo - Eco-tourism in the Lake Natron Ramsar Site, Tanzania
Supervisor: Professor DC MacMillan

Emma Shepheard-Walwyn - Relationship between culture and biodiversity, and the threats they face.
Supervisor: Professor SR Harrop and Dr Peter Bennett

Siobhan Simpson - Molecular genetics and infectious disease in red squirrels on Jersey
Supervisor: Dr J Groombridge

Moacir Tinoco - Habitat change and the distribution and abundance of herpetofauna in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
Supervisor: Professor RA Griffiths

Simon Tollington - Inbreeding and immune function of the Mauritian echo parakeet Supervisor: Dr Jim Groombridge

Wilfredo Tomas - Relationships between ungulate communities and landscape ecology in the Brazilian Pantanal
Supervisor: Dr RE Bodmer

Diogo Veríssimo - Maximizing awareness and fundraising for conservation through the flagship concept
Supervisors: Professor DC MacMillan and Dr RJ Smith

Charlotte Walters - Present and future conservation of European bats
Supervisors: Professor RA Griffiths, Dr RJ Smith, Dr Kate Jones (Institute of Zoology)

Rachel White - Climate change, elevational range and extinction risk in birds
Supervisor: Dr Peter Bennett

Emma Wombwell - The implications of an emerging infectious disease for the global trade and conservation of amphibians
Supervisors: Professor RA Griffiths, Professor DC MacMillan and Professor SR Harrop

Wai-Ming Wong - Sun bears in human-dominated landscapes: Distribution, population trends and conflicts in Sumatra
Supervisors: Professor Nigel Leader-Williams and Dr Matt Linke

Olivia Woodburne - Indigenous representation in negotiations over natural resource use
Supervisors: Dr HS Newing and Professor D Zeitlyn (Anthropology)