Sheona Shackleton is the Professor and Deputy Director: African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is Honorary Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University (RU) and was Head in the same Department. She is an internationally renowned expert on rural livelihoods, and more recently also on rural vulnerability and adaption to global and climate change. She has been a member of a number of interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams, and has played substantial leadership roles in several of them. In 2013 she received an EU SUTRAFOR/Erasmus Mundus Scholarship and spent two months at the University of Copenhagen. She has research links with the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, where she was a Senior Research Associate until 2012. Earlier, in 2006-7, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the CIFOR in Bogor, Indonesia, and the Centre for Nontimber Forest Products (CNTR), Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. Her contributions to scholarly publishing include 137 refereed papers in journals, books, published conference proceedings, and published policy briefs. She has authored or co-authored 68 more conference presentations and posters, 53 research consultancy reports, and 20 articles in the popular media.
