Skip to main content

Dr Amrit (Imi) Dencer-Brown

Picture frame Amrit Dencer-Brown
Job Title:
Lecturer in education and researcher in climate change, Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement and the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University

Amrit (Imi) Dencer-Brown is a lecturer in education and researcher in blue carbon ecosystems at Edinburgh Napier University. She is lead for curriculum on Napier’s BAME short-working group and a member of BAMEish (ENU’s society for BAME staff and supporters).

Amrit is from a Kenyan-Indian and British background and did her PhD in Auckland, New Zealand where she worked with diverse local communities in the management of mangroves.

Applicable Publications:

Dencer-Brown, A. (2020). From isolation to cross-cultural collaboration: My international PhD journey as tauiwi. SoTL in the South, 4(2), 228-234.

Dencer-Brown, A. M., Alfaro, A. C., & Milne, S. (2019). Muddied waters: Perceptions and attitudes towards mangroves and their removal in New Zealand. Sustainability11(9), 2631.

Pannell, J. L., Dencer‐Brown, A. M., Greening, S. S., Hume, E. A., Jarvis, R. M., Mathieu, C., ... & Runghen, R. (2019). An early career perspective on encouraging collaborative and interdisciplinary research in ecology. Ecosphere10(10), e02899.