Leejiah Dorward

Delighted to publish my 5th & final PhD chapter on a super important topic! Working around Ruaha NP in🇹🇿& Gunung Leuser NP in 🇮🇩, we assessed the perceived fairness of different sanctions distributed by #rangers. Key take aways below: doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

Looking for a PhD in conservation social science? Come to @BangorUni! We have GREAT project ideas & supervisors as part of the Welsh Graduate School in Social Sciences environt pathway. Details of application process below but do get in touch! walesdtp.ac.uk/studentships/w…

Pleased to publish my 3rd PhD chapter in @ConservationSP 1st) We used a RRT to quantify #rulebreaking around @RuahaNP in #Tanzania - which didn't work, so... 2nd) We conducted an experiment to find out why... doi.org/10.1111/csp2.1…

2022 @NyikaVwazaTrust lecture evening 15/11 from 18:00 UK time @unionjackclub with Zoom option 18:45. Dr @Leejiah_D speaking on “Conservation in the 21st Century: what is it and who is it for?” Register/zoom details: sec.nvt@gmail.com More: nyika-vwaza-trust.org/news/nvt-event… #Malawi

@TheLabAndField @HarrietIbbett & @StephBrittain did this a few years ago...and it wasnt that pretty (45% of the articles they looked at made no mention of ethical safeguarding) conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Job alert! Interested in helping land managers make the right decisions for 🌳🦌 Apply now & be a Research Officer on #iDeer @BangorUni A fab team awaits! tinyurl.com/rjuf9vvk Email me enquiries

A GREAT conservation social science postdoc with my awesome colleagues @FreyaStJohn & @GW_Shannon on the IDeer project (great title! It's about deer management). North Wales is SUCH a great place to live if you like beaches/mountains... Join us @BangorSNS jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php.en…

Three of us are presenting in the super-interesting Impact Evaluation symposium this afternoon. @DevenishKatie will present her study evaluating the impact of a high-profile biodiversity offset scheme on deforestation in Madagascar (Today, 16:30 in Aula #ECCB2022_Prague). 4/7....

Freya St John will present today at 17:00 in Room E1 #ECCB2022_Prague on how understanding tolerance and risk can predict human/tiger encounters (2/7).

There are 6 of us from @BangorUni conservation group here in Prague for #ECCB2022_Prague, so I thought I'd do a quick thread on what we are all presenting. If you are here do come and say hi! (1/7)

Hot off the press!📢 Are you a #conservation #researcher who uses Specialised Questioning Techniques to ask about sensitive topics? • Trying to decide which method to use? • Wondering if respondents understand these methods?! Check out our new paper: doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

@aznfusion Honoured to have made the list!

Happy Int'l Womens' Day! I worked with a fabulous, talented group of #women💙who became my second lab group @ZSLScience during pandemic, on this paper out in @PaN_BES: tinyurl.com/2p8psme9 Would love to hear your thoughts #IWD2022 #inclusivity #fairness #conservation

In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 7.2% lower than men's.

Everyone has a mobile phone right? And everyone likes lemurs? So everyone should be interested in our new paper @naturesustainab which explores whether one of Madagascar’s biggest mines has achieved No Net Loss of biodiversity. 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4189…

Fantastic PhD opportunity working with a great team @BangorSNS

Excited to see that our open access Covid-19 modelling paper is out now in @socscimed! doi.org/10.1016/j.socs… This was a hugely collaborative paper, put together as part of the @royalsociety RAMP initiative.

#IAmABiologist whose buttocks have featured in the @nytimes #AcademicGoals

Amazing work by @Leejiah_D - who we have also spotted in the @nytimes this morning! -nytimes.com/2021/10/08/sci…

@AnneWHilborn Well, I can speak from first hand experience that the soft leathery caress of a bat's wing against one's buttocks is not wholly unpleasant

One of the legends in Serengeti was stories of someone feeling the gentle brush of bat wings against their bare bum when in the outhouse