Dr MUMBY Hannah Sue

Hannah is an Assistant Professor working on human-wildlife interactions at the intersection of conservation and behaviour. Prior to this position she was a cross-faculty Assistant Professor at the School of Biological Sciences and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong (2019-2025). She was Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge (2015-2019), where she was a Society in Science Fellow and Drapers' Company Fellow at Pembroke College. In 2018 she was a College for Life Sciences Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 2017, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Colorado State University. She was a Leverhulme Trust funded post-doc at the University of Sheffield, where she also conducted her PhD (2014) on the association between life history and environment in Asian elephants. She did her undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Cambridge. In 2020, she published the popular book Elephants with Harper Collins, and was awarded the Christopher Barnard New Investigator Award by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. With research interests of human-wildlife interactions from feeding, wildlife trade, conservation behaviour, pets and working animals she seeks to address pressing issues of our time including sustainable life in cities, the biodiversity crisis and human wellbeing in relation to the natural world.

Research Interests  
Human-wildlife interactions 
Human and animal behaviour 
Conservation science

Teaching Interests  
Animals  
Environment  
Research methods