Current projects
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I work within the Fire Ecology & Biodiversity Group at the University of Melbourne’s Creswick campus, and am currently leading the Fire & Fragmentation Project and an associated project in the Mount Lofty Ranges. I'm interested in all things relating to animal responses to landscape structure and change, and I'm keen to better understand how past disturbances and habitat permeability are reflected in genetic diversity.
I live on Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat, which means "resting place" because it lies on grassy plains surrounded by volcanic hills. I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which I live and work; the Wadawurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung and Gunditjmara Peoples. These lands always were, and always will be, the lands of Aboriginal People; I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present, and I'm grateful to be able to call this county home. With many, many others, I'm trying to help build a more equal and inclusive world. I'm always keen to better understand systemic inequalities, own my privilege and learn how I can be a better ally. 
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This is the southern water skink. We hope to work out why it (and other species) crossed the paddock, and whether fire is a help or a hindrance to population connectivity in fragmented landscapes.
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