Nick Harvey Sky

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I am a conservation scientist who uses both biological and social science methods to help make conservation both more effective and more socially just. My
PhD at the University of Manchester and Chester Zoo focused on the eastern black rhino in Kenya. I used metabarcoding and population modelling to investigate variable breeding success between individuals and reserves in Laikipia, and determine if this was in part caused by differences in diet. I also used social science methods to study the role of zoos and concepts of wildness in the conservation of large herbivores.

I spent a few years working on research, land use and climate change policy for the British Ecological Society and Citizens Advice, and have now returned to academia as a postdoc at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen. I focus on the CONLAB (Conservation Labor: A New Frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science) project, studying how biodiversity conservation affects labor dynamics across axes of social difference and hierarchies of wage labour.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Postdoctoral Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute
  • 2023–2024
    Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice
  • 2021–2023
    Policy Officer, British Ecological Society

Education

  • 2021 
    University of Manchester, PhD
  • 2016 
    University of Oxford, MSc Biodiverstiy, Conservation and Management
  • 2015 
    University of Cambridge, BA Natural Sciences (Biological)

Publications

  • 2024
    Linking diet switching to reproductive performance across populations of two critically endangered mammalian herbivores, Communications Biology
  • 2022
    Female reproductive skew exacerbates the extinction risk from poaching in the eastern black rhino, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
  • 2021
    Species stereotypes as a result of unconscious research biases compromise conservation efficacy, Biological Conservation
  • 2021
    Untapped potential of physiology, behaviour and immune markers to predict range dynamics and marginality, Ecology and Evolution

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