Svetoslava is associate professor in environmental anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on human-wildlife interactions, convivial conservation, multispecies ethnography and large carnivores. Her main focus of interest is human-brown bear coexistence in the context of convivial conservation and conservation approaches in diverse cultural, economic and political contexts (having worked on the Balkans and in USA). She is a research partner in “Wild Rodopi” NGO, focused on interdisciplinary research, where she works with an ecologist aiming to contribute to multispecies/more-than-human research scholarship by applying a symbiosis of ethnographic and ecological research methods in support of large carnivore conservation. Svetoslava is the author of the monograph “Humans and bears. Politics and coexistence models” (in Bulgarian) and number of other publications in international peer-reviewed journals.
