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Dr. Isla Hodgson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on the ConFooBio project under the supervision of Nils Bunnefeld.
Her primary research focuses on the human dimensions of conservation conflicts, examining social and political aspects including relationships, power dynamics, and governance structures. Dr. Hodgson also investigates global trends in conservation conflicts, seeking to identify common factors that cause conflicts to escalate and developing methods to model and predict occurrences. A significant aspect of her work involves integrating scientific knowledge with practical field management approaches.
Dr. Hodgson's research contributes to the Environmental Change research programme and the Ecosystem Change research group at the University of Stirling, with particular relevance to global security and resilience themes.
Her educational background includes a BSc and MSc from Aberdeen University, specializing in marine mammal behavior and habitat use, spatial analysis, and ecological modeling. She completed her PhD in 2018 on conservation conflicts and their management after beginning her doctoral studies in 2015.
Before her academic career, Dr. Hodgson gained practical experience as a conservation practitioner in South Africa, where she worked as a guide and participated in various projects including an Anatolian guard dog scheme to reduce retaliatory cheetah killings by local farmers. Her dissertation work was later used in a conflict mitigation process addressing seal and salmon conflicts in Aberdeenshire.
