Dr Daniel Ingram

Dr Daniel Ingram is a Research Fellow and member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. He has a range of practical, academic, and consultancy experience across the fields of conservation, ecology, and sustainability.

At the broadest level, Dan is ultimately interested in efforts towards a wilder, healthier, and more sustainable world. His work is dedicated to progressing conservation outcomes through equitable and inclusive scientific research and on-the-ground conservation that aims to curb biodiversity loss through sustainable living, improved people-nature relationships and pro-environmental behaviours. Dan is passionate about wild-life, people and places, supporting rural living in multi-functional landscapes, and advocating for localised food systems and community-based living.

Dan, his research group, and collaborators work to build an evidence-base to inform conservation policy and practice to benefit nature, climate, and people. Our approach to research is strongly interdisciplinary, valuing both quantitative and qualitative approaches to better understand how to tackle environmental and societal challenges.

We work across a wide range of topics, spanning terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the UK and abroad, including but not limited to the following research themes:

• Sustainable living and pro-environmental behaviours
• (Re)wilding and ecosystem restoration
• People-nature relationships and wellbeing/health linkages
• Monitoring and evaluation of conservation project effectiveness and impact

Dan established the Food and Nature Programme to investigate the interlinkages between food systems and nature. He currently has a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and is the Principal Investigator of a new research programme investigating the role of wildlife in the diets of urban residents in tropical Africa. Dan is also one of the founders of the WILDMEAT Project which aims to develop a global evidence-base on the hunting, consumption, and trade of wildlife, to inform sustainable management and policy decisions.

A full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.

• ENVI5002 - Environmental Policy and Practice
• ENVI5006 - Environment and Development
• ENVI7014 - Leadership Skills for Conservation Managers    
  

Current PhD Students (core supervision)

• Thomas Hurst, University of Kent (UK): Investigating beaver expansion and the factors associated with damming behaviour in Britain.
• Faye Whiley, University of Kent (UK): Human Dimensions of Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) Reintroduction.
• Pilia Chiging, University of Kent & Zoological Society of London (UK): Impacts of changing sociocultural terrain on human-nature relations and hunting sustainability among the Indigenous Peoples of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
• Leanne Riddoch, University of Kent (UK): Conservation implications of wild meat consumption in urban centres of Cameroon.
• Emily Millerchip, University of Sussex (UK): Perennial crops for sustainable cities.
• Sean Denny, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA): Evaluating policy levers to reduce unsustainable wildlife exploitation at regional and global scales.

Current PhD students (secondary supervision)

• Maddie Ballantine-Morris, University of Kent (UK): Evaluating the ecological and social dimensions of pine marten reintroductions in the UK landscape.
• Joseph Hedges, University of Kent (UK): Investigating the influence of competing land uses on forest livelihoods and biodiversity in an Indonesian Biosphere Reserve.
• Anna Stuart, University of Kent (UK): Interdisciplinary study on the role of OECMs and genomic erosion on species’ population viability.
• Markéta Swiacká, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Czech Republic): Using community-based approaches to assess the threats to pangolins (Pholidota) in the cross-border area of the Congo Basin.

Alumni PhD Students

• Katie Spencer, University of Kent (UK): Interactions between environmental change and exploitation on Borneo’s mammalian megafauna (Co-supervisor).

• Associate Editor: Conservation Letters· 
• Associate Editor: People and Nature· 
• Steering Committee, Field Science Co-Chair: IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group