I am investigating the impacts of humans on insect diversity. For large areas, biodiversity is composed of the diversity of all the local sites they contain and the diversity among those sites. I am assessing how human changes to the environment both local diversity in terms of the number of species of insects that sites contain, and the change in insect species composition across sites. This research is my contribution the GLiTRS project (GLobal Insect Threat-Response Synthesis: A comprehensive and predictive assessment of the pattern and consequences of insect decline) which is synthesising multiple sources of evidence to understand trends and status of insects globally. I hold a postdoctoral fellowship in the Mathematical Biosciences Hub at Stellenbosch University, funded by GLiTRS.