Biography

Louise completed her MSc in the RMES programme at UBC in 2006, after which she worked as a research assistant with the Fisheries Economics Research Unit. Her past research involved assessing the status of the reef fisheries of Pulau Banggi, Sabah, from both an ecological and socio-economic perspective. She has also studied the socio-economic aspects of fisheries in Hong Kong and Fiji. Louise will look at the time preferences of small-scale fishers in Sabah and Fiji for her PhD research.