Over the last ten years, my research focus has been on the topic of learning and incorporating diverse stakeholder knowledge in the context of collaborative landscape conservation, catchment management, and environmental governance. I am grounded in an ecological background but have developed interdisciplinary knowledge and social science skill sets. I have worked with both public and private sector stakeholders and have an extensive network in the Garden Route Region, with connections in the Western Cape and northeast regions in South Africa.

I work with a social-ecological systems approach. and am passionate about stakeholder engagement, collaborative adaptive management and governance, and landscape conservation.

My latest publications include:  
McCulloch-Jones, S., Novellie, P. Roux, D.J., Currie, B. (2021). Exploring the alignment between bottom-up and top-down objectives of a landscape-scale conservation initiative. Environmental Conservation, 48(4).
Roux, D.J., Novellie, P., Smit, I.P.J., de Kraker, J., Mc Culloch-Jones, S., Dziba, L.E., Freitag, S., Pinnaar, D.J. (2022). Appraising strategic adaptive management as a process of organizational learning. Journal of Environmental Management, 301.
McCulloch-Jones, S., Novellie, P., Roux, D.J., Currie, B (2022). Social network analysis of a landscape-scale conservation initiative in South Africa. South African Journal of Science.118 (9/10).
McCulloch-Jones, S (2023). Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma Strategic Water Source Are

Landscape ecology
Sociology of the Environment

I am looking to join a project that broadly relates to freshwater security and human well-being.

social-ecological systems, adaptive governance, water conservation, stakeholder engagement, qualitative research, strategic water source areas, collaboration, environmental and human well-being.

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