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Conservation Psychology

I provide specialist behavioural and social science advisory and training services to professional working in biodiversity conservation.

Often in this field, the species that turn out to be the most difficult to understand can be our own. Well-intentioned initiatives can fail, or results can be negatively impacted, when communication and collaboration between stakeholder groups with very different motivations, perspectives and experiences is hampered by misunderstandings and conflict.

I have an academic background in the psychology of environmental risk, including collaborative and participatory processes. I have been a keynote speaker at biodiversity conservation conferences (for example, The Blue Earth Summit) in behaviour change. I am also a guest lecturer in conservation psychology, and have lectured at a number of UK universities including The University of Leeds, the University of Hull, and the University of the Highlands and Islands.

I am on the specialist advisory team for Conservation without Borders and have supported Sacha Dench in her work in conservation practice and as a UN Ambassador for Migratory Species.

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Conservation Without Borders - Dr Jacqui Wilmshurst
Science Advisor to Sacha Dench – aka the ‘human swan’, a world record breaking biologist and conservationist and UN Ambassador for the Convention on Migratory Species, and Founder and CEO of Conservation without Borders.

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Blue Earth Summit keynote session, Bristol 2021
Keynote Speaker on conservation behaviour change – ‘Beyond Inspiration’ – at the Blue Earth Summit, Bristol 2022.
COP13 with Sacha Dench at the Jivdaya Charitable Trust Animal Hospital

With Sacha Dench at the Jivdaya Charitable Trust Animal Hospital in Ahmedabad, India, during our attendance at the COP13 (Conference of the Parties) to the UN Convention on Migratory Species

Sir David Attenborough at Connecting with Nature in Bristol UK
At the Communicate Conference 2010: ‘Connecting with Nature’, Bristol UK, organised by the Bristol Natural History Consortium.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Dame Jane Goodall