Mridula Mary Paul is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Her ongoing PhD research looks at the cultural politics and political ecology of zoonoses, with a focus on One Health and India. Prior to this, Mridula practised law before the High Court of Madras and worked as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Ashoka Trust for Research on Ecology and the Environment in India.  Mridula is a member of IUCN's Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group, and is the editor of Courting the Environment, a newsletter that aims to convey environmental and ecological research to lawyers. She has a degree in Development Studies from the University of Oxford.