rocio.pozo@stir.ac.uk

Rocío is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Stirling. Early on in her career as a qualified vet, she realised wildlife conservation was her passion, and so she started her research path working with endemic mammal and bird populations from the Atacama desert to the far end of the Chilean Patagonia. Rocío then expanded her skills during her MSc in Conservation Science at Imperial College London, where she studied habitat-species associations in the Hispaniolan solenodon in the Dominican Republic. She dived into conflicts in conservation during her PhD in Zoology at the University of Oxford, for which she worked on the ecological aspects of conflicts between elephant conservation and the livelihoods of local people in the Okavango Delta Panhandle, Botswana. All of these projects have reinforced her passion for wildlife conservation and the need for inter-disciplinary approaches to solve conflicts.

Rocío’s research interests lie at the interface between the ecological and social aspects of conflicts in conservation, and aim to benefit both local people and wildlife.​