Diana works at the cross section between academia, business, policy and public engagement. As Senior Research Fellow, her current research focuses on public preferences for how Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain can be delivered in practice. To further extend the reach of ourBiodiversity and Environmental Net Gain work, Diana collaborates with a teacher, illustrator and ecologist to develop a Primary School ‘consolidating and supporting’ resource for the KS2 curriculum (Living things and their habitats). Prior to this, Diana worked as Project Manager and Business Fellow for the UK Sustainable King Prawn Project, a £2M project led by experts from the University of Exeter, in partnership with the University of Reading and Rothamstead Research and runs from 2022-2026. She has also worked as Impact Development and Evaluation Manager for the South West Partnership for Environment and Economic Prosperity (SWEEP), a five-year programme (2017-2022) funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to apply research to benefit our environment and economy.