Jay Mistry

Jay is an environmental geographer and a potter. She has more than 25 years’ experience in teaching, researching and capacity building activities, with a particular focus on South America. Her research interests include environmental management and governance, participatory visual methods and Indigenous geographies. Her work involves supporting local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, cultural fire management, action research using participatory video, crafting and Indigenous rights. She is interested in different types of knowledge, and how these can be brought together for more effective and socially just management and governance. Jay is also Professor of Environmental Geography at Royal Holloway University of London and Co-Director of the Leverhulme Wildfires Centre, UK.

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