Megan joined JRCT in 2026 as Grants Officer on the Power and Accountability Programme, after completing her PhD in Environment and Politics at the University of York.
Her background is in community-based conservation and international development through which she specialised in monitoring and evaluation and participatory approaches aiming to address unequal power relations within conservation practice. She has previously worked at community level in Peru, Papua New Guinea and Tanzania and supported citizen science initiatives across the world.
Megan’s academic expertise is rooted in the fields of environmental justice and political ecology. Her PhD research explored the use of rights-based approaches in biodiversity conservation and she has an MSc in Anthropology, Environment and Development from UCL.