New research looks at the future of conservation training

April 15, 2025

Amit Kaushik (ICON & Anthropology PhD candidate) recently co-authored two papers published in Conservation Biology:

  • Dietsch, A. M., Selinske, M. J., van Eeden, L. M., Blount-Hill, K.-L., Hauptfeld, R. S., Banerjee, S., Brittain, S., Gelves-Gómez, F., Kaushik, A., Fischer, P. M., Uddin, M. K., & Wallen, K. E. (2025). Conservation and the social sciences revisited. Conservation Biology, 39, e14462. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14462
  • Thomas-Walters, L., Gelves-Gomez, F., Brittain, S., van Eeden, L. M., Sky, N. H., Kaushik, A., Kemink, K., Manzano-Fischer, P., Plotsky, K., & Selinske, M. (2025). Essential skills for the training of conservation social scientists. Conservation Biology, 39, e14456. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14456

These papers are part of the Special Issue: Trends and Future Directions in the Conservation Social Sciences and are the result of ongoing collaborations through the Society for Conservation Biology’s Social Science Working Group (SSWG), where Amit currently serves as a board member.