Srushti Paranjpe

India

Biodiversity, Conservation & Management (MSc), 2016
St Anne's College, Oxford

Funding: Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann

Srushti completed a Master’s Degree in Biodiversity Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford.

Prior to Oxford, she completed a BSc in Zoology class from Fergusson College and the University of Pune as well as interning with WWF-India where she worked on the Snow Leopard conservation project in the Himalayas of North Sikkim.

She was a recipient of a UGC grant which allowed her to survey butterflies in different types of habitats in and around her home city, where she has also been coordinating a project titled “Bird-Plant interactions in the urban and periurban landscape” for the past two years. She has volunteered with a local wildlife conservation NGO, working on their education and awareness programmes and field sessions. A certified International Young Leader by the British Council and Youth Sports Trust since 2008, Srushti participated in a cultural exchange with a school in Worcestershire.

Srushti’s research interests are island ecology and biological interactions.

Since leaving Oxford, Srushti has been working as an independent consultant for conservation projects in her hometown.