Hollie Booth

Hollie recently completed her DPhil on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Shark and Ray Conservation, with a particular focus on small-scale fisheries in Indonesia. The overarching aim of the DPhil was to contribute to more effective design of marine conservation interventions, which can simultaneously deliver conservation outcomes for sharks (with a particular focus on threatened species) and well-being outcomes for people (with a particular focus on vulnerable coastal communities).

After her DPhil Hollie completed a fellowship from the Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN), working with government and community partners to apply her research findings to policy and management. She is now working as a part-time post-doctoral researcher with the MCEM research group, leading a DEFRA Darwin Initiative project on 'Incentive-based approaches for biodiversity and well-being outcomes in small-scale fisheries', which builds on her DPhil and OPEN fellowship [link to this somewhere https://mcem.web.ox.ac.uk/incentive-based-marine-conservation]. In parallel, Hollie is working in the private sector as a Nature Positive Senior Specialist at The Biodiversity Consultancy, where she helps businesses understand their impacts on nature and develop strategies to mitigate impacts and align with international biodiversity goals.