Outputs

Below, we outline the outputs that have arisen from the research conducted as part of the Doctoral Training Programme, including contributions from both postgraduate researchers (highlighted in bold and underline) and the wider community of supervisors (highlighted in bold). We embrace a diversity of output formats and have listed outputs by date while highlighting the type of output.

In press

Journal articles

Flowers, I., Lovett, J., Hassall, C. (in press) Conservation status of species used in the UK herbal medicine industry, Plants, People, Planet.

Howard, A. (in press), 'Extinction, conservation and competing futurisms in Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone and Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage', parallax

Howard, A. (in press), 'Introduction: Narratives of Extinction and Conservation', parallax

Gamblin, A. (in press), ‘"A Vanishing Species": Near-Extinction Rhetorics, Narrativising the Nonhuman and Cultivating Creaturely Love in Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider (1987)', parallax

Grandey, R. (in press), 'Safeguarding Identity through Indigenous Language: Hmong Perspectives from Lao P.D.R.', parallax

Roberts, J. (in press), 'The Advance Agent of Health: Health Education, Hygienic Modernity, and Anticipated Extinctions of Hookworm and Folk Medicine in Jamaica, 1919-1936', parallax

Wilson, P. (in press), 'Extinction through the eyes of a Scottish wildcat: a disentangling of a landscape', parallax

2026

Journal articles

Fiennes, S., Hardianto, N., Anasari, S., Damani, L., Haryono, J., Jackson, T., Dwiyahreni, A., Birchall, C., Holmes, G., Hassall, C. (2026) A more-than-human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade, Conservation Biology, 40: e70275.

Conferences and presentations

Goodman, S. J. and Brown, T. M. (2026). Symposium panel - Scaling down conservation through everyday conservation of unwanted species. Conservation Social Science Conference 2026, Society for Conservation Biology, October 21-22 2026.

Simpson K, Oakes S, Wilson P, Grandey R, Roberts JD, Skrimshire S and Howard A (2026, June) Extinction Studies: insights and challenges, Presented at The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities.

Simpson K (2026, June) Lyric Fieldwork: Sediment & Sentiment. Presented at the Poetry’s Environments, University of Leeds.

Simpson K (2026, May) Ending the Proterozoic: A Poetic Reimagining. EGU2026, Vienna.

Grandey, R., (2026, September) 'From clan to global family: Hmong Christian reframing of traditional kinship systems in Laos’, University of Heidelberg, Eighth International Conference on Lao Studies

Grandey, R., (2026, July) ‘From extinction exacerbator to conservation incentive: migration reframed through Hmong Christian readings of the Babel narrative’, Nanyang Technological University, Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia, 6th Biennial Conference

Grandey, R., (2026, June) ‘“Our Hmong inheritance”: Biblical parallels and cultural continuity for Hmong Christians in South East Asia’, University of Edinburgh, Yale-Edinburgh Conference on World Christianity and the History of Mission

Books, book chapters, and edited volumes

Bhambra, G. K., Demir, I., Gilbert, P. R., Khoo, S.-M., & Mayblin, L. (Eds.). (2026). The modern world after colonialism. Bristol University Press, UK.

Fiennes, S., Huggan, G., Skrimshire, S., & Turton-Hughes, S. (2026). Speaking in Spores: Extinction and the Fungal Imaginary, in Roman Bartosch, Ursula K. Heise, and Kate Rigby (eds) Unsettling Extinction (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Skrimshire, S. (2026) Faith in the End: Eschatology for Times of Extinction,Fordham University Press, USA.

2025

Journal articles

Fiennes, S; Hardianto, N; Ansari, S; Haq, A; Laraswari, S, Jackson, T., Birchall, C., Holmes, G. Hassall, C. (2025) Designing user-centered technologies to address the illegal wildlife trade. Conservation Science and Practice, 7: e70166.

Barbulescu, R., South, J., Byrne, B., Solomos, J., Benson, M., Vargas Silva, C. C., Yemane, T., Zambelli, E., Anghel, R. G., Bacher, S., Bermudez Torres, A. M., Bernard-Verdier, M., Bibi, R., Boatcă, M., Bolpagni, R., Colon, D., Demoule, J.-P., Dunn, A. M., Durrant, S., Faist, T., Finotelli, C., Garelli, G., Gidley, B., Gippet, J. M. W., Gonzalez, S., Guareschi, S., Heger, T., Hill, S., Hobbs, J., Holmes, G., Hulme, P. E., Jones, H., Jacob, M.-A., Khosa, D., Kilkey, M., Kusumastuti, A., Lavanchy, A., Lewis, H., Macêdo, R. L., Mas Giralt, R., Musseau, C. L., Makinejad, M., Neira Castro, E. R., Pattison, Z., Probert, A., Roberts, J. D., Ruland, F., Saul, W.-C., Sciortino, G., Shackleton, R. T., Sigona, N., Sokolovska, S., Souter, J., Sun, L., Vathi, Z., Vieten, U., Vimercati, G., Waite, L., Wilson, P., & Yannelli, F. A. (2025). Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(13).

Brown, T. M., Dunn, A. M., Quinnell, R. J., Clarke, E., Cunningham, A. A., & Goodman, S. J. (2025). An interdisciplinary approach to improving conservation outcomes for parasites. Conservation Biology, 39, e14431.

Hibberts, A., Yeo, E., Shelbourne, I. G., Roberts, J. D., Kartashov, K., Pepper, N., Worsfold, A., Suits, R., Banbury, T., & Suresh, A. (2025). The future of (environmental) history: A roundtable discussion. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 3: 427–447.

Holmes, G. (2025). Who let the frogs out? Illicit and unregulated species translocations. Conservation Letters, 18(6): e13155.

Huggan, G., & Holmes, G. (2025). What are conservation humanities? Preliminary reflections on an emerging paradigm. Humanities, 14(5), 94.

Prosser, K. (2025). On reviving extinct predator species. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 1–18.

Roberts, J. D., Waddington, L. L., Quinnell, R. J., & Dunn, A. M. (2025). Multiple infections and community knowledge of hookworm and Ascaris in a historical Jamaican deworming programme, 1913–1936. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 119(6): 586–595.

Simpson, K., Oakes, S., Stirbyte, A., Prosser, K., Brown, T. M., Roberts, J. D., & Bartlett, A. J. (2025). Extinction studies in focus: Reflections on photography at a time of ecological decline. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 3, e2. doi:10.1017/ext.2024.16

Simpson K. (2025, October) Bilaterian. In Photoworks Annual 32. S.l.: Photoworks, 174–175.

Conferences and presentations

Simpson K and Carpenter JR (2025, August) Erosure Poetics: Collaborations in the Carboniferous. In Erosion - Crimeadh. University of Galway.

Simpson K (2025, July) Ending the Palaeozoic: A Poetic Reckoning. Presented at the Life and Planet, The Geological Society, London.

Simpson K (2025, July) [Re]imagining Deep Time. Presented at the Worldmaking and Ecological Justice Workshop, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Howard, A. ‘Speculative Folklore as Creative Practice: Imagining Haunted Landscapes and Languages’ (Haunted Futures, November 2025, Cork)

Howard, A. ‘Speculative Pasts, Language Invention and Deep History’ (ASLE-UKI, August 2025, Galway)

Howard, A. ‘The Tale of the Black City’ (Haunted Modernities, July 2025, Falmouth)

Howard, A. ‘Folktales, Creative Practice and Ecological Storytelling’ (Eco-humanities Symposium, March 2025, Penryn)

Grandey, R., (2025, September) ‘Tongue tied to progress: Hmong language and extinction in global South East Asia’, University of Cambridge, Association of Southeast Asian Studies Conference

Grandey, R., (2025, April)  ‘Ethnos, Eden, extinction: Hmong theological perspectives on environmental and cultural loss’, University of Oxford, Laudato Si’ Theology & Integral Ecology Conference

Grandey, R., (2025, March) ‘Stories of sadness and stewardship: Hmong narrative responses to environmental extinctions’, University of Exeter, Inaugural Eco-humanities Conference

Creative works, digital outputs, and public engagement

Fiennes, S., Patil, I. & Lugas, L. (2024) Uncaged Conservation: An inclusive audio-visual exploration of wildlife marketplaces.

Roberts, J.D. (2024) 'Harebells and Heather', https://jdrobertsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/harebells-and-heather

Goodman, S. J. and Sidwell, J. S. (2025). Don't be lousy to lice (The parasite conservation song).

Brown, T. M., Cunningham, A. A., Goodman, S. J. (2025). Parasites are ecological dark matter – and they need protecting. The Conversation.

Roberts, J.D. (2025) ‘Wild Castles: Medieval Fortifications as Ecological Refuges’, Northern Environmental History Network Blog.

Bayun the Cat & Roberts, J.D. (2025) Clarinets of the Moon, System.

2024

Journal articles

Clay, C.G., Dunhill, A.M., Reiner, J.D., Beger, M (2024), Trait Networks: Assessing Marine Community Resilience and Extinction Recovery, iScience, 27: 110962.

Howard, A. and Nelson, D. (2024). Snake words in Estonia: Language, nature and extinction in Andrus Kivirähk’s The Man Who Spoke Snakish. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2: e3.

Howard, A. (2024). Colonialism, Resistance and (Anti-)Nationalism in Andrus Kivirähk’s The Man Who Spoke Snakish (Koloniālisms, pretošanās un (anti)nacionālisms Andrusa Kivirehka romānā “Vīrs, kas zināja čūskuvārdus”). Letonica, 55: 67-83.

Roberts, J.D., Waddington, L.L., Quinnell, R.J., Huggan, G., Dunn, A.M. (2024), ‘Parasites and Plantations: Disease, Environment and Society in efforts to induce Extinction of Hookworm in Jamaica, 1919-1936’, Cambridge Prisms Extinction, 3: e1.

Roberts, J. D. (2024). A brief history of Guinea Worm research in the modern period, 1689–1931. Le Infezioni in Medicina, 32(4).

Talensby, M.T., & Parreñas, J. S. (2024). To live and die in an age of extinction: a conversation with Juno Salazar Parreñas. Mortality, 29(3), 612–625.

Slater, H., Fisher, J., Holmes, G., Sandbrook, C., & Keane, A. (2024). Assessing the breadth and multidisciplinarity of the conservation curriculum in the United Kingdom and Australia. BioScience, 74(9), 652-662.

Simpson K. (2024, September) clocks replaced with : ; . [Deschooling Time in the Small Isles]. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 2.

Simpson K. (2024, June) Adaptation Gap. [Poetry commission in collaboration with James Ford, Priestley Chair in Climate Adaptation, Priestley Centre for Climate Futures]

Simpson, K. (2023, October), Review of Simpson on Schuster, 'What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals', H-Net Network on science, medicine and technology.

Books, book chapters, and edited volumes

Kidwell, J.H. and Skrimshire, S. (2024) Extinction and Religion, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Simpson K, Boix L and Duffy E (eds) (2024, April) Underworld, Vol. Issue 88. London: Magma.

Conferences and presentations

Simpson K [Producer] (2024, August) Summit: A Poetry School Festival. Yorkshire Sculpture Park; University of Leeds.

Simpson, K., (2024, May) Langjökull: A Case Study in Polytemporal Poetics, University of Iceland, Ice and Water - Circular Thinking on Cultural and Environmental Sustainability.

Howard, A. ‘How to Notice Like an Elephant: Biotranslation and Umwelten in Barbara Gowdy’s Novel The White Bone’ (ASLE-UKI, Sept 2024, Edinburgh)

Grandey, R., (2024, November) ‘‘No turning back’: Ntiajteb and the doomed earth in Hmong hymnody’, Merced College, 6th Hmong Studies Consortium International Conference

Grandey, R., (2024, September) ‘“A void” or avoid? Missionary inheritances and Hmong Christian approaches to Indigenous spiritual practice’, University of Leeds, British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference

Grandey, R., (2024, June) ‘Christian identity and environmental perspectives among the Hmong of South East Asia’, Polish Academy of Sciences, Religions and Environment: Methodological Reflection and Contribution from Social Sciences International Workshop

Grandey, R., (2024, April) ‘Linearising the circle of life: Hmong Christian ambivalence to Indigenous ecological safeguards’, University of Warwick, Society for the Study of Theology Conference

Grandey, R., (2024, February) ‘We Need to Talk about Patron-Client Relationships’, University of Leeds, Horizons Institute Decolonising Research Methods Showcase Event

Creative works, digital outputs, and public engagement

Howard, A. (2024) The Farm Closes, Stand Magazine.

Oakes, S. (2024) The One That Makes the Daughter-In-Law Cry and Other Potato Recipes From the Women of the Potato Park.

Oakes, S. (2024) Roots: exploring Indigenous biocultural heritage through participatory action research in Peru.

Simpson, K. (2023, June) Life in the slow lane, Times Literary Supplement [Podcast]

Simpson K. (2024, August) Ok (an elegy). [Experiential Memorial presented at the Un-Glacier Tour (sponsored by UNESCO, Icelandic Glaciological Society, Icelandic Hiking Society, Rice University), Okjökull.]

2023

Journal articles

Fiennes S, Anasari SD, Hardianto N. (2023) TikTok facilitating songbird trade in Indonesia. Oryx. 57(4):420-421.

Roberts, J.D. (2023) Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–2022. Medical History, 67(2), 148-171.

Conferences and presentations

Howard, A. ‘Snake Words in Estonia: Andrus Kivirähk’s The Man Who Spoke Snakish’ (ASLE-UKI, August 2023, Liverpool)

Howard, A. ‘Worlds in Conflict: Oppression and Subversion in Andrus Kivirähk’s The Man Who Spoke Snakish’ (Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe, June 2023, Kaunas)

Howard, A. ‘Wendigo Stories for a Postcolonial World: Re-imaginings of an Indigenous Figure’ (EACLALS, June 2023, Paris)

Creative works, digital outputs, and public engagement

Fiennes, S.B. (2023). Bagaimana pedoman TikTok belum ampuh menangkal perdagangan burung ilegal di Indonesia [How TikTok's guidelines have not been effective in countering illegal bird trade in Indonesia], The Conversation.

Extinction Studies DTP (2023) Extinction in the Small Isles: Contributions from Alfie Howard, MT Talensby, Jon Roberts, Sicily Fiennes, Lydia Woods, Serena Turton-Hughes, Jenny Kennedy. A Photo Essay.

Flesher, C. (2023). COP28’s historic agreement, and the pursuit of climate justice. 03 December. Priestley Centre for Climate Futures. [Online]. Available from: https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/cop28s-historic-agreement-and-the-pursuit-of-climate-justice/

Oakes, S. (2023) You say potato, I say biocultural heritage that safeguards global food security, available at: https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/you-say-potato-i-say-biocultural-heritage-that-safeguards-global-food-security/

Roberts, J.D. (2023) ‘Questioning the Lessons of History: In Defence of the Usefulness of Medical History’, Northern Environmental History Network Blog.