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- Qualifications:PhD, MSc (dist), SFHEA
- Position:Senior Lecturer
- Department:College of Health, Science and Society School of Applied Sciences
- Telephone:+441173281629
- Email:Amanda.Webber@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
Amanda is a Senior Lecturer in the Science Communication Unit and Programme Leader of the MSc Science Communication.
She is an anthropologist whose research is at the interface of people and nature; exploring and understanding people's perceptions and values to engage with them effectively around biodiversity conservation and the environment. She is particularly interested in how we teach and engage HE students around these topics and is proud to be a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. Her research uses qualitative research methods, and she has extensive experience of teaching these approaches both within conservation science and beyond. Amanda is currently conducting research into the representation of wildlife and farming in children's literature.
Amanda completed her MSc and PhD at Oxford Brookes University before teaching there and at University of Bristol. She then spent 8 years at Bristol Zoological Society. During this time, she managed the HE provision with multiple University partners in addition to module leading on MSc Communication for Conservation (UWE) and many undergraduate courses. She was also co-lead of the Northern Madagascar project. Amanda was also part of the UWE VIP-CLEAR team, examining children's experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amanda is a trustee of Barbary Macaque Awareness & Conservation.
Area of expertise
Qualitative methods
Communication for conservation
Human-wildlife interactions
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