Anuradhi Jayasinghe

PhD Candidate

Griffith University, Nathan Campus

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YjPhNXUAAAAJ

Anuradhi started her PhD in February 2023 with the Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security at Griffith University under the supervision of Dr Leah Burns, Dr Duan Biggs and Dr Johanna Nalau. Her research interests include reviewing the gaps in how values in relation to human-wildlife coexistence are incorporated into existing protected and conserved area (PCAs) standards like the IUCN Green List. Together with the gap analysis, she will gather perspectives of communities living close to PCAs towards the existing conservation frameworks. She wishes to contribute to the current conservation literature and applied conservation science through policy analysis and pilot studies to show the community perspectives towards conservation policies.

She completed her Master’s degree in Environmental Management at the University of Queensland as an Australia Awards scholar from Sri Lanka in 2020. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Sri Lanka, she started her research career with the small-scale fisher communities in the Southern part of the country in 2014. To date, she has worked with both national and international civil society organisations in Sri Lanka. During this journey, she has had the experience of working with vulnerable and marginalised communities (e.g., Northern fishers, central plantation communities, dry-zone farmers, etc.), and she will continue to work for the betterment of those communities.