Kerry is a researcher working in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) research group at the James Hutton Institute. Kerry has a background in both the natural and social sciences, some NGO experience, and field experience in several countries. She carries out interdisciplinary research that can inform and help improve policy and practice to conserve our environment and natural resources. She works using mixed methods across several projects, each relating to or more of a set of overlapping research interests: Community-based natural resource management; Scenarios for environmental decision-making; Ecosystem services, and the Ecosystem Approach as defined by the CBD; Stakeholder participation in environmental governance; Environmental policy, and science-policy interfaces for biodiversity and environmental management.