Joe is a conservation scientist and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, researching how to reconcile biodiversity conservation with the needs of human communities.
His work focuses on human-wildlife conflict and landscape-scale conservation, applying spatial and statistical modelling to integrate field observations, satellite imagery, and species movement data. Through this, he seeks to predict where, when, and how people and wildlife are most likely to come into conflict, with a particular emphasis on African landscapes.
Joe holds an MSc in Conservation from University College London and a BA in Geography from the University of Exeter. He previously worked as a research assistant at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and has carried out fieldwork in South Africa and in the Congo Basin—supported by a Royal Geographical Society fieldwork grant.
He has also contributed to conservation projects in Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Madagascar.
