Aadil Siddiqi
I’m Aadil, a previous MSc student of Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at the School of Geography and the Environment. My dissertation, supervised by Dr Wedding, examined transboundary migratory species protection in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean.
Having grown up in Canada and Pakistan, my formative interactions with the natural world were mediated by contrasting development contexts and environmental challenges. Accordingly, my research uses oceans in the Anthropocene as a stage to explore pathways to concurrently advance human dignity and ecological vitality through environmental policy. Aside from seascape ecology (itself an interdisciplinary entity), my research draws on concepts from conservation biogeography, environmental economics, environmental law and law and economics.
In addition to my work on migratory species conservation, I recently led research on how the UK’s fishing iconography shaped British constitutional law and impacted the Brexit process. I would like to build on this by examining interactions between marine defaunation, fishing industry decline, community deprivation and regional resilience in UK fishing towns in order to inform green transition policies. Additionally, I am conducting research on the spatial economic effects of fishing around MPAs.
Before matriculating at Oxford, I read Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, where I was a Cambridge Trust Scholar, Bateman Scholar and Trinity Hall Scholar. I am a founding member of the Cambridge University Marine Conservation Society, and previously sat on the committee of the Cambridge Conservation Forum-Marine at the David Attenborough Building.
Selected Publications and Press
‘Build It and They Will Come! The South Arran Marine Protected Area in Space and Time’, Working Paper [Work in Progress].
‘Brexit, Marine Conservation and the Iconography of a Maritime Nation’, The Cambridge Journal of Issues in Law, Politics and Art, 1(1), 2021. w/ Davies, N. (Expected publication date: May 2021)
‘Finding Truths in Fishermen’s Tales’, The Cambridge Review of Books, 3: Autumn 2020.