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Nancy Burrell
BIOLOGIST
Nancy became fascinated by rewilding having grown up at Knepp. With a background in marine biology, Nancy earned her MSci from the University of Southampton in 2018. Her master’s research took her to the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) and Bergen University, where she studied the influence of megafauna on a post-glacial landscape. She recently completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, focusing on the carbon storage potential of scrubland created through rewilding, using Knepp as her field study.
Nancy helped set up an Operation Wallacea Ecology Field Skills course at Knepp, providing undergraduate and master’s students with hands-on conservation experience. She is now a researcher at the University of Oxford, working in the Department of Biology.
‘I find it so inspiring that nature holds the answer to so many of the questions confronting us – including climate change, soil degradation and human health.’
