LAWRENCE IS A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY AND ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AND WAS FORMERLY, AN ESRC-FUNDED PHD STUDENT AT THE DURRELL INSTITUTE OF CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY (DICE), UNIVERSITY OF KENT. HIS INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IS WORKING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE PASTORALISM AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN DHOFAR, OMAN. HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN A NUMBER OF OVERSEAS RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS IN AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST. LAWRENCE FEATURES IN THE RECENT CONSERVATION DOCUMENTARY, ‘MADAGASCAR: LIFE ON THE EDGE’.