Conservation Conflict
Research Group
Aidan Keane
Chancellor's Fellow, School of GeoSciences,
University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, UK.
About
Before I joined the University of Edinburgh in 2014, I was a Lecturer in Quantitative Conservation Science at Imperial College London. Prior to that I had carried out postdoctoral research into community-based conservation in East Africa at the School of Anthropology at University College London and the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London, and into bushmeat consumption in Madagascar at the University of Bangor. My first degree was in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and I obtained a PhD from Imperial College London, studying the role of enforcement measures in conservation.
Research Interests
My group’s research aims to benefit both the environment and human wellbeing by contributing new theory, evidence and practical tools for improving conservation interventions. The outputs of our research improve the ability of conservation managers to design interventions which are robust, informed by evidence and better able to address the challenges to conservation and human wellbeing caused by ongoing global change. Our work is focuses on three broad themes: (1) understanding how people behave in response to conservation interventions; (2) measuring conservation impact; (3) developing better methods for studying sensitive behaviour. I am also increasingly interested in the role that experimental approaches can play in understanding conservation interventions.
