Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science
Aimee.oxley@uwe.ac.uk
Research interests: Human-wildlife co-existence; Human perceptions of and behaviour towards problematic wildlife; Wildlife responses to anthropogenic impacts; Conservation psychology; Conservation impact, success and “failures”; Political ecology; Decolonising conservation.
I am an interdisciplinary applied conservation scientist, with experience of working with and researching both people and wildlife. My background bridges both research and practise in conservation, with a focus on finding strategies to improve human-wildlife coexistence, particularly regarding crop-foraging wildlife in the rural tropics. I have used methods from natural and social sciences to investigate wildlife responses to living in human-modified habitats, as well as understand human perceptions of and behaviour towards problematic wildlife. I am interested in exploring the factors that drive the behaviours of people living alongside problematic or crop-foraging animals, including external and internal barriers of behaviour change, and themes around political ecology, fear and safety, security of livelihoods, sense of place and individual and community wellbeing.
Publications
Oxley, A.S., Donati, G. and Hill, C.M., 2022. What Works and What Doesn’t Work? The Challenges of Doing Effective Applied Conservation Research in Human-Modified Habitats. International Journal of Primatology, 43(6), pp.989-999.
Cardinal, C., Strubel, M.A. and Oxley, A.S., 2022. Working from the inside out: Fostering intrinsic motivation and expanding our criteria for conservation success. International Journal of Primatology, 43(6), pp.1177-1202.
Oxley, A. and Jovan, B.K., 2019. Stick tool use by chimpanzees in a forest fragment in Uganda’s Budongo-Bugoma corridor: preliminary observations from Kasongoire. Revue de primatologie, (10).