Anastasia Voronkova

PhD Student

University of Exeter, UK

Anastasia is a first-year doctoral student. Her project will be a part of project 6, with Dr Karyn Morrissey and Dr Mathew White as supervisors. Anastasia will be looking at whether and how whether and how integrating WASH services into community based marine natural resource management improves conservation outcomes and/or community engagement with natural resource management.

Anastasia has completed a degree in Asian Studies (2014, 1st class) in Russian Federation, during which she lived and travelled through China for a year as an exchange student. She has afterwards graduated with distinction from “Science Communication” MSc programme of the University of the West of England. This programme gave her an opportunity to take part in various projects, including using BBC West broadcast centre and BBC Radio Bristol to produce a radio programme, and producing a locally printed and distributed magazine, as well as a video dedicated to Bloodhound SSC project that was filmed at its local facilities and then edited from scratch. Her final project was done in collaboration with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, contributing to the exploration of partitioning of social media audiences in conservation charities and zoos.

Anastasia has always been fascinated by marine wildlife, especially by sharks, which has resulted in her enthusiasm regarding marine conservation and other spheres related to it.

In her free time Anastasia has a big interest in drawing and hiking.