Dr. Rebecca Ellis

Rebecca Ellis worked in Centre for Science Studies until September 2008.
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Rebecca Ellis

Research Associate

Degree: BA Social Anthropology London School of Economics: MPhil Social Anthropology London School of Economics: PhD Social Anthropology London School of Economics/St. Andrews University

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Science Studies, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change

Research Interests

Present project: "Amateurs as Experts: Harnessing New Knowledge for Biodiversity"

I come from a disciplinary background of Social Anthropology and for my doctorate, carried out fieldwork amongst the Tsimane' people in the Bolivian Amazon. My thesis draws upon the anthropology of the emotions and the body as a way of understanding Tsimane' human-human and human - non-human socialities. Following the completion of my PhD, I then worked as a freelance social development consultant in Bolivia for DFID, the Bolivian Government and a range of Bolivian and European NGOs. My work focussed upon indigenous people and natural resource management and family and community health care.

The present project 'Amateurs as Experts' for which I am the RA, is a 3 year ethnographic study which focuses upon the knowledge politics at play as the UK government seeks to harness the biodiversity knowledge of a range of volunteer naturalists.

Career details

Publications

Ellis, R. and Waterton, C. (2005), "Caught between the cartographic and the ethnographic imagination: the whereabouts of amateurs, professionals and nature in knowing biodiversity", accepted / forthcoming Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Ellis, R. and Waterton, C. 2004, "Environmental citizenship in the making: the participation of volunteer naturalists in UK biological recording and biodiversity policy", Science and Public Policy, April 2004

Ellis, R. 2002, "Un Dialogo entre Saberes: lecciones aprendidas de investigacion participative con pueblos indigenas", CIDOB-DFID, La Paz (Translated Title: "A dialogue between indigenous and academic knowledge: Lesson learning from participatory research with indigenous peoples")

Ellis, R. 1999, "'Ensenemos a los Tsimane' a Sumar Monos!': La inclusion de los Indigenas (y exclusion de sus cosmologicas) en el Manejo de Fauna", Anales de la Reunion Annual de MUSEF, La Paz (Translated title: "'Let's teach the Tsimane' to count monkeys!': The inclusion of indigenous people (and the exclusion of their cosmologies) in wildlife management"

Ellis, R. 1998, "Una Etnografia del Pueblo Tsimane", UNDP, Bolivian Vice-Ministry for Indigenous Affairs

Ellis, R. 1997, "Enojo y Brujeria entre Tsimanes y Carayanas: Una aproximacion al Estudio Antropologico de las Emociones", Anales de la Reunion annual de MUSEF, La Paz. (Translated title: "Anger and Sorcery between and amongst Tsimanes and Carayanas: An approach to the anthropological study of emotions")

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Associated Keywords: Ethnography, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Interdisciplinary teamwork, Knowledge, Public understanding of science, Research methods, Science and technology studies, Science studies, Science, technology and society, Sociology, Tacit knowledge, Technoscience, The body