Dr Daniel J. Ingram

Dr Dan Ingram is a Senior 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. Dan established the Food and Nature Programme to investigate how to simultaneously achieve sustainable, healthy, equitable, and resilient food systems and nature recovery in the UK and abroad.

At the broadest level, Dan is ultimately interested in efforts towards a wilder, healthier, and more sustainable world. His work is dedicated to achieving this through equitable and inclusive scientific research and on-the-ground initiatives that aim to curb biodiversity loss through sustainable living and improved people-nature relationships. 

Dan and his research group work to build an evidence-base to inform 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
• Food systems
• Ecosystem restoration
• People-nature relationships
• Monitoring and evaluation of conservation project effectiveness

He currently has a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and leads a research programme investigating the roles of wild foods in contemporary food systems in Africa.

Dan currently contributes to the  E3 Sharing Space for Nature initiative, through exploring nature restoration and food production in the UK.

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 Research Staff (PDRAs)

• Katie Spencer, PDRA, Developing a toolkit for wildlife use monitoring (UKRI).

Current PhD Students (core supervision)

• Kelly Mattacott, University of Kent (UK):  Reconciling wild foods, wildlife management, and ecosystem restoration land uses and values in the UK.
• 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.

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 Research Staff (PDRAs)

• Tally Yoh, Wildlife consumption and zoonotic disease risks (UKRI).
• Joshua Bauld, Social psychology of wildlife consumption (UKRI).
• Helen Pheasey, Wildlife consumption in the Republic of Guinea (UKRI).

Alumni PhD Students

• Katie Spencer, University of Kent (UK): Interactions between environmental change and exploitation on Borneo’s mammalian megafauna (Co-supervisor).
• Sean Denny, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA): Contemporary drivers of, and possible solutions to, the overexploitation of terrestrial African wildlife (Core supervisor).

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