Dr Jacqui Eales is a specialist in Evidence Synthesis working on a 3 year project to develop a nexus perspective on peoples’ resilience, wellbeing, and environmental sustainability in coastal communities around the UK (ROCC- Resilience of Coastal Communities).

Jacqui worked on Evidence Synthesis for the 4-year Blue Communities, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, synthesising the evidence on the interactions between marine and coastal resource management and the health and well-being of coastal communities, centred on South East Asia.

Jacqui has worked in Evidence Synthesis since 2009, based at the Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, Bangor University, where she was a Lecturer in Conservation. Here, she set up an international programme of capacity building in Evidence Synthesis for the Environmental Sciences.

From 2011 onwards, she worked at the York Health Economics Consortium, University of York as an Associate Systematic Reviewer, and for the Mistra Council for Evidence-Based Environmental Management, based at the Stockholm Environment Institute, as a specialist in Evidence Synthesis.

Alongside her work at the University, Jacqui continues to work for Earthwatch Institute facilitating on citizen science research projects in the UK and beyond. Since 2014, Jacqui has also been Senior Scientist on the Operation Wallacea Dominica project, training young scientists in Tropical Ecology field techniques.