Ella Bradford is a DPhil student at WildCRU supported by the NERC DTP in Environmental Research. Her research focuses on African wild dog ecology across ecosystems in Zambia, specifically working on understanding dispersal. She is co-supervised by Dr. Egil Dröge and Dr. Amy Dickman, and is working in collaboration with the Zambian Carnivore Programme.

Prior to Oxford, Ella graduated from Harvard University in 2024 with a BA in Integrative Biology, a secondary in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and a language citation in Spanish.

During this time, she was a member of the Davies Lab in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department. She worked on several projects related to animal-ecosystem interactions at landscape scales. For her undergraduate thesis, she worked at Odzala-Kokoua National Park, in the northern Republic of Congo, where she used camera trap data, remotely sensed landscape data, and GPS telemetry to provide evidence for spotted hyena living in the rainforest regions of the park.