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With colleague Sonia Tidemann, I co-edited the book Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society, published in 2010 in hardback and in paperback in the following year. The book shows that within the broader context of ethno-biology, ethno-ornithology has hitherto largely concerned relatively localised anthropological studies of the ways in which indigenous people engage (or have engaged) with birds for food, companionship, art and inspiration, in connection with spirituality, and as a significant element of folk-taxonomy and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how these diverse relationships are expressed linguistically.
I served as as a contributor to the Religion and Conservation Research Collaborative (RCRC) of the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group (RCBWG) of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). A former Trustee of A Rocha UK and advisor to A Rocha International, I helped with the formation of a new A Rocha initiative in Nigeria. I am Co-convenor of Oxpeace – the Oxford University Network for Peace Studies. I am a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Professed member of the Third Order of the Society of St Francis, and was ordained Deacon in the Church of England in 2018, and Priest in 2019.
