Jamie Robertson is an MA student in the Department of Philosophy. She is co-supervised by Jonathan Newman and Stefan Linquist. Jamie completed a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from the University of Guelph in 2009. While an undergraduate she worked on an interdisciplinary group research project for the New Zealand Environmental Risk Management Agency titled: balancing the risks and opportunities of species introductions. For her MA degree Jamie is working on disciplinary differences in the understanding and valuing of biodiversity and how such differences may help or hinder conservation efforts.