I am a transdisciplinary human-marine scientist and human-shark scientist working at the intersection of human–environment relations, education, and collaborative knowledge-making. My work explores how people learn to engage with ecological uncertainty, multispecies coexistence, and socio-environmental change, and how education can support meaningful sustainability transformations. Trained in psychology and anthropology, I bring together environmental social science, sustainability education, and the environmental humanities. I aim to build a rigorous, transdisciplinary framework for understanding how humans psychologically, culturally, and ethically relate to non-human life under conditions of ecological risk — and to translate that understanding into conservation practice, policy, and education. I approach sustainability not only as an environmental challenge, but as a pedagogical one, shaped by emotion, ethics, culture, and lived experience. My research draws on ethnography, participatory and experiential methods, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and multimodal documentation. Over the past fifteen years, I have conducted field-based research in diverse and fragile environments, including coastal India and Aotearoa New Zealand. Much of my empirical work uses human–shark relations as a lens to understand conflict, care, fear, and coexistence in sustainability contexts. 

Currently actively seeking Postdoctoral Opportunities

in Anthropology/ Environmental Humanities/ shark research and related fields