Courtney (PhD, MEd, BSc, BEd) is a conservation scientist with expertise in human-wildlife conflict, community-based collaboration, conservation planning, policy development and evaluation, field-based assessments, and citizen science. Courtney is highly skilled in qualitative and participatory social science methods, facilitation, educational instruction and outreach, and curriculum design. Among other academic lectures, Courtney has been a visiting tutor at Oxford University’s WildCRU program for over a decade. In addition to working in Canada, Courtney’s has led or worked as part of a team on different conservation and livelihood projects across Belize, Cameroon, and Tanzania, and most recently in Zimbabwe. Courtney is a founding collaborator of the Tanzania Research and Conservation Organization (TRCO), and brings social science expertise to complex conservation challenges. Most recently, Courtney has co-led the exploration of the human dimensions of pangolin conservation, and collaborated with Micheal on assessing the impacts of resettlement in relation to lion conservation across the Ruaha landscape, as well as supported the investigation of call-back surveys as a means to provide a lion population estimate for the Ruaha National Park.
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