People

Lead

The MACE team is led by Dr Tim Stojanovic, an environmental geographer and social scientist with a special interest in coastal and marine environments. Dr Stojanovic is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Geography at the University of St Andrews.

MACE team members:

  • Doctoral Candidate, ‘Co-creation of Conservation Knowledge for Coastal and Marine Reserves’

  • Doctoral Candidate ‘Harmonising traditional ecological knowledge with scientific knowledge for inclusive, equitable, and sustainable fisheries management’

  • The work of MACE is supported by interns who undertake six to ten week supervised projects part time, in support of a wider research project, thereby gaining research skills and understanding and contributing to real world coastal and marine environmental challenges.

    Santosh Shah, BSc (Hons) Geography and Sustainable Development 2025. Beach Teach: a fieldwork-based resource for Schools Geography

    Martha Webb, BSc (Hons) Biology and Sustainable Development 2025. Stakeholder and policy mapping for marine protected areas.

    Mia Hall, BSc (Hons) Geography 2024. Integrated Geography: data, field reconnaissance and methods to understand social and physical processes at East Sands, St Andrews.

    Julia Stewart, MA (Hons) Geography, 2024. Beach Teach: creating an integrated school geography resource for East Sands, St Andrews.

    Varun Bhattacharyya, BSc (Hons) Economics and Sustainable Development. 2023. Social acceptance of nature-based solutions.

    Mary Dugan, BSc (Hons) Geography and Sustainable Development 2022. Resilient Coasts: responding to sea level rise and flood risk with nature based solutions.

    Becca Salenjus, BSc (Hons) Biology and Sustainable Development 2022. Marine Protected Areas: virtual seascapes and underwater video.

    Alejandra Piazolla Ramirez, MSc Sustainable Development 2021. Marine Protected Areas and Carbon Credits for Conservation.

    Rebecca Foster, MSc Sustainable Development 2021. Marine Protected Areas and Eco-certification for marine sectors.

    Felicity Spoors, MSc Marine Ecosystem Management 2020. Marine Protected Areas. Long-term trends in protected species and habitats.

    Louise Harker, MSc Conservation Studies 2020. Marine Protected Areas, Wellbeing and Alternative Livelihoods.

    Benjamin KaoBSc Sustainable Development 2020. Marine Protected Areas and Climate Impacts.

    Annabel Personeni, BSc Sustainable Development 2019. Marine Spatial Planning: discourse analysis and systems approaches.

    Tessa Bonincontro, MSc Sustainable Development 2019. Climate adaptation: social acceptance and managed realignment schemes.

    Connie Dawson, BSc Sustainable Development 2018. Developing a Coastal Governance Baseline Assessment for the Forth and Tay Marine Region.

    Armelle Duvieusart, BSc Sustainable Development 2016. Regional Marine Planning in Scotland: designing the process.

    Ashleigh Warnock, BSc Geography 2016. Cultural Ecosystem Services (Recreation) in Mudflats and Saltmarshes.

    Cat Young, MA Geography 2016. Charting the development of EU and Scottish Marine Policy.