Anuradhi JAYASINGHE

Anuradhi Dulangi Jayasinghe is a doctoral candidate at the School of Environment, Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include human-wildlife coexistence, community-based conservation and political ecology. She is working in collaboration with the IUCN Green List to reform existing protected area guidelines to incorporate coexistence benefits. The focus is on local communities in Global South countries who are at the forefront of interacting with wildlife, such as farmer communities interacting with wild elephants in Sri Lanka. She wishes to contribute to the current conservation literature and applied conservation science through policy analysis and ethnographic studies to understand the community barriers to coexistence and their social contexts interacting with wildlife. 

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.