Jasmine Zhang

While gained my PhD in Tourism from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2016, I have also a B.Eng in Food Science from the Southwest Forestry University in China. 'Nature' and 'Communication' are two core things that connect my wide-ranged interests. I believe important issues such as conservation and biodiversity can be better communicated among various actors in society through a better understanding of how human-human and human-nonhuman relations work in different contexts, which requires good interdisciplinary research. In the past ten years, I have worked within different projects, all connecting to this point. I am also passionate about doing ethnographical fieldwork, especially in peripheral and remote areas. In addition, I reflect on and write about issues of methodologies and ethics in knowledge production and distribution, and try to incorporate those questions in both research and teaching.