Following my Bachelor’s in Biology at the University of Lausanne, I decided to continue my studies with a Master’s in Ecology. I completed my master’s project in Alexandre Roulin’s group, which has been working in collaboration with farmers for many years to install Barn Owl nestboxes on their farms. I then began a doctoral thesis for which I’m focusing on this collaboration between scientists and farmers and the relationship between these two disciplines. This PhD dissertation is co-supervised by Professor Fabrizio Butera, a social psychologist at the University of Lausanne.