I am a working on the CONVIVA – convivial conservation project with Prof Dan Brockington and Prof Rosaleen Duffy both on research and communications aspects. I am very excited to work on this research project with a diverse, enthusiastic group of colleagues from the natural and social sciences. I am what representations of conservation are manifest in Sustainable Development Goal 15, Life on land, and thinking through what a convivial alternative could look like. Prior to my current role, I was a PhD researcher and lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, working on cocoa sustainability.