BLOG POST Some considerations on forest governance and incursion economies at the end of COP30

27 November 2025

Margherita Scazza spent over a week in Belém at COP30, dubbed by its organisers as the “COP of the Amazon”. In this latest blog post, Margherita reflects on the week and what it might mean for forest governance and incursion economies…

NEWS Paper accepted for publication by Environment Research Letters

19 September 2025

The paper ‘Weather disasters and their underreported transboundary impacts on Amazonian communities’ by Rayane Pacheco (Infracursions Research Associate) et al. has been accepted for publication by Environmental Research Letters. The paper is a result of the Fulbright Amazonia program… 

NEWS Infracursions Researcher Featured as ‘Scholar to Watch’

23 September 2025

Rayane Pacheco, postdoctoral researcher on the Infracursions Project, has been featured in the Brazilian media as a “scholar to watch”. The newspaper Estadão profiles scholars leading national and international discussions on critical topics such as sustainability...

NEWS Bristol Teaching Awards Winner 2025

12 June 2025

Congratulations to Infracursions Group Lead Amy Penfield for receiving an Outstanding Research Supervision Award in the Bristol Teaching Awards (BTAs).

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NEWS Job Opportunities

13 March 2025

[NOW CLOSED] The INFRACURSIONS project at the University of Bristol is hiring TWO Postdoctoral Research Associates to undertake research on resource extraction in South America. A central objective of the role will be to undertake ethnographic research on informal extractive economies in Amazonia …

NEWS New Podcast: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Conservation

27 February 2025

New podcast from the Global Development Institute (GDI) at the University of Manchester on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Conservation. INFRACURSIONS project lead Amy Penfield speaks with Lucas Alencar and Filipe França …

NEWS Infracursions Research Project Survey

20 February 2025

If you are part of an organisation working in the Amazon, we would value your input! Si eres parte de una organización que trabaja en la Amazonia, queremos saber tu opinión. / Se você faz parte de uma organização que trabalha na Amazônia, precisamos da sua opinião …