I'm currently doing my PhD at Bournemouth University, investigating human impacts on micro-climate and parasite loads on primates in Sumatra, Indonesia. I have always had a keen interest in wildlife conservation, and hope that my research will help to improve conservation measures for threatened primates in Indonesia.

I first started working with LEAP as an MRes student based at Bournemouth University, conducting research on the Thomas’ langur monkey and how forest structure determines their distribution in North Sumatra. I have also volunteered with the Marine Turtle Conservation Project in North Cyprus, monitoring nesting beaches of sea turtles, and I have worked on a mitigation project in the UK, trans-locating great crested newts (an EU protected species) from an area of proposed development, and monitoring the population of other ecologically important species, including bats and reptiles.