I’m a wetland social-ecologist with an interest in human-environment relationships, interdisciplinary research approaches, debates surrounding sustainable development and the role of different knowledges in conservation research and management. I take a critical approach to my work; continuously thinking about justice issues, the ethics of conservation approaches and how we can imagine and create a more caring world for human and more-than-human beings alike.I completed my PhD at the University of Leicester (School of Geography, Geology and the Environment) with Borneo Nature Foundation. My interdisciplinary PhD evaluates the importance of fish(ing) to human communities in the Sabangau (Central Kalimantan, Indonesia) using Assemblage Theory as a framework. This also involved completing some of the first long-term fish and water quality surveys in the Sebangau River and Forest. At WWT I provide technical support to our international programmes in Madagascar and Cambodia. I also support the Wetland Learning Hub (https://wetlandlearninghub.org/) with course design, as a lecturer and M&E lead. You can see my WWT profile here:https://www.wwt.org.uk/our-work/wetland-conservation-unit/meet-the-team/sara-thornton/I'm also a trustee of Freshwater Life Project: https://freshwaterlifeproject.org/For a more complete list of my publications please see my Google Scholar or Researchgate profiles:GS: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fi7U9zsAAAAJ&hl=enRG: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Thornton3