Lea May Anderson

Lea is a DPhil student in the School of Geography and the Environment’s Environmental Change Institute, conducting critical social science research on the relationship between property regimes and biodiversity restoration. Lea’s current research focuses on the land management practices of Scottish community landownership organisations and their interactions with public and privatised nature recovery initiatives.

The project, which has been co-developed with community-based partners, aims to support to the needs of community landownership organisations while also contributing to broader understandings of the role for alternative ownership models in nature recovery. This work is situated within the Society Research Theme, investigating the distribution of costs and benefits under various approaches to nature recovery and their implications for more just and equitable human-nature relations.