People. Kin. Planet. 
 
I am the Founder and Lead of the Univeristy of Adelaide's Community Ecology Research Group, known in the conservation community as the Bandi Bunch. I am also the Vice-President of Australia's not-for-profit dedicated to the protection of native fungi, Fungimap Inc. 
 
Our Community Ecology Research Group is passionate about protecting our planet's threatened communities and species. Working together with First Nations communities, we advocate for kin and other indigenous governance principles to guide biodiversity conservation. Together we partner with communities and industry to co-design innovative solutions linking world-leading conservation science with on-ground management to better protect threatened communities and species as they cope with global change. We work with communities and industry partners across the kingdoms of fauna, flora, and funga.
 
Our transdisciplinary research focuses on understanding how ecosystems respond to differing disturbance and other global changes - and what we can do to enhance their capacity to cope with the negative impacts. Our transdisciplinary approach bridges basic and applied research, and co-designs field surveys with industry partners to ensure their findings are put into action to make a difference for conservation. We use design thinking to draw on deep understanding of the needs of partners and stakeholders, and bring together global (biogeography and invasion science) and local (community ecology, population ecology and citizen science) approaches, to build long term partnerships that benefit biodiversity conservation.