Pip Wilson

Profile

I am a PhD student on the Leverhulme Extinction Studies DTP at the University of Leeds. With a BA(hons) Politics and Geography and MA Environment, Culture and Society, alongside work in environmental education, I am working at the interface of ecology, conservation biology, geography and sociology in an attempt to better understand environmental concerns and conservation in an integrated fashion. My PhD research is focused on how extinctions and translocations affect the co-creation of landscape in the Cairngorms, Scotland.

Research interests

In the midst of the biodiversity crisis, it is sometimes forgotten that biodiversity loss is made up of thousands of stories of individual species in the process of extinction. But what does this mean for the lives of humans, non-humans and landscapes that they share(d) a home with? Much is already known about how biodiversity supports ecosystem services but what about the intangibles of living; particularly the ways that together with non-human organisms we create the landscapes, and our (more-than-human) attachment to places? My research investigates how these are affected by species extinction with a focus on multi-species interactions and the concept of more-than-humanness. Additionally, I explore species translocations can revitalise a landscape socially, culturally and ecologically.

Qualifications

• MA Environment, Culture and Society, Lancaster University
• PG Diploma in Education (Secondary Geography), University of Birmingham
• BA(hons) Politics and Geography, University of Exeter

Research groups and institutes

• Sustainability Research Institute