Merton Society London Lecture

Speaker: Professor EJ Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor in Biodiversity at Merton College and the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology.

Professor Milner-Gulland spoke about her research on tackling wildlife crime, both through working with local people living around Protected Areas in Africa, and changing consumers' attitudes to wildlife purchases in Asia.

Professor Milner-Gulland’s research group, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, works at the interface of social and ecological systems, using a range of methodological approaches to address key issues in current conservation, including fieldwork and modelling in the ecological, social and behavioural sciences. Her work has three themes; understanding resource user incentives, planning for effective and socially just conservation, and accounting for social-ecological system dynamics. Professor Milner-Gulland works in the terrestrial and marine realms, with practitioners who are implementing interventions, to ensure that they are designed, carried out and monitored in a way that leads to the desired outcomes from both conservation and social justice perspectives. She also works on the conservation and ecology of saiga antelopes in central Asia, which was recently featured in The Conversation.