Members

Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Research Centre

Name	Affiliation	Research Interests
Andrew Allan	Anthropology	Primate behavioural ecology Vigilance
Judy Allen	Biosciences	Quaternary palaeoecology Pollen analysis Quaternary palaeoclimate
Clare Andrews	Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University	Early life stress Animal welfare and cognition Parental care and life history
Alec Ayers	Anthropology	Neotaphonomy Carnivore behaviour and ecology Wildlife management
Bob Baxter	Biosciences	Climate change impacts in terrestrial environments Arctic plant ecology Plant-atmosphere interactions
Rob Barton	Anthropology	Behavioural ecology and sociobiology Comparative studies of brain size and structure in relation to behavioural ecology Evolution of mammalian reproductive traits
Nadin Beckmann	Education	Learning and performance, psychometric assessment Personality and individual differences Within-person change and malleability
Alan Bilsborough	Anthropology	Human evolution and cranial diversity in early hominids The interaction of social and biological variables in human biology
Naomi Brannan	Biosciences	Behavioural ecology Stress physiology Animal biotelemetry
Claire Branston	Biosciences	Conservation biology Avian ecology Environmental change
Adrian Brennan	Biosciences	Ecological and quantitative genetics of hybridization Speciation Invasiveness and plant reproductive systems
Stuart Brooker	Biosciences	Conservation biology Biodiversity and speciation Behavioural ecology
Trudi Buck	Anthropology	Applications of geometric morphometrics to human evolution Biological anthropology from material culture Early human migrations
Mike Burt	Psychology	Evolutionary psychology Facial expression recognition
Michael Carrithers	Anthropology	Evolutionary bases of human socialities Evolutionary and cultural transformation
Paul Chazot	Biosciences	Novel drug targets for chronic neuropathologies In vitro electrophysiology Learning/memory; anxiety
Mike Church	Archaeology	Environmental archaeology of the North Atlantic islands Geochronological applications Human / environment interactions
Zanna Clay	Psychology	Evolution and development of social cognition and communication Primate behaviour - great apes Evolution of language, empathy and culture
Camila Coelho	Anthropology	Cultural transmission Social networks Capuchin monkeys
Wayne Dawson	Biosciences	Invasion ecology Plant-soil interactions
Ellie Desmond	Biosciences	Plant mating system evolution Gene expression
Teegan Docherty	Biosciences	Conservation biology Avian ecology African wildlife management
Helen Driscoll	Psychology, Sunderland University
Sarah Elton	Anthropology	Ecology, palaeobiology and palaeoecology Evolutionary medicine Functional morphology
Leah Findlay	Anthropology	Human-wildlife interactions Primate behavioural ecology
Katharine Flach	Anthropology	Reproductive strategies Cooperative breeding Callitrichids
Alireza Foroozani	Biosciences	Population genetics/molecular ecology Plant mating system evolution Use of NGS - RNAseq/RADseq
Shams Galib	Biosciences	Aquatic animal ecology, behaviour, evolution, conservation Behavioural and evolutionary ecology Conservation biology
Lucy Gardner	Biosciences	Conservation biology Climate change biology Species modelling
Michelle Gibson	Biosciences	Climate change biology Conservation planning Nomadic bird ecology
Sian Green	Anthropology	Mammal conservation Camera trapping Citizen science
Ben Gruwier	Anthropology	Archaeozoology Functional morphology Palaeoanthropology
Steve Higgins	Education
Elana Hobkirk	Biosciences	Animal behaviour Animal communication Canid behaviour
Rus Hoelzel	Biosciences	Evolutionary biology Population genetics and molecular ecology Behavioural ecology
Christine Howard	Biosciences	Avian population biology Species distribution modelling Environmental change
Pen-Yuan Hsing	Biosciences	Developing a wild mammal monitoring network in the UK
Brian Huntley	Biosciences	Biogeography Ecology Biodiversity impacts of environmental change
Ramona Irimia	Biosciences	Invasive plant evolution Quantitative genetics
Jeremy Kendal	Anthropology	Social transmission and population dynamics
Rachel Kendal	Anthropology	Social learning Behavioural innovation Cultural evolution
Viven Kent	Anthropology; Durham Wildlife Trust
Marc Knight	Biosciences	Evolution of cold sensing and tolerance in plants Evolution of cellular calcium signalling mechanisms
Fire Kovarovic	Anthropology	African Plio-Pleistocene palaeoecology Early hominin environments and methods for reconstructing habitats Faunal community ecology
Bob Layton	Anthropology	Anthropology and archaeology of art in non-literate societies Evolution of social behaviour Indigenous land rights
Simone Lemmers	Anthropology	Life history Hard tissue histology
Steve Lindsay	Biosciences	Host-vector dynamics Malaria and climate change Malaria transmission and the environment
Angus Lothian	Biosciences	Aquatic animal ecology, behaviour, evolution, conservation Behavioural and evolutionary ecology Conservation biology
Martyn Lucas	Biosciences	Biology of introduced and invasive aquatic animals Conservation biology of aquatic animals Ecology, behaviour and respiratory physiology of fish
Anthony McGregor	Psychology	Spatial learning Animal cognition Learning and memory
Pedro Mendez-Carvajal	Anthropology	Primate conservation Panamanian primates
Evalyne Muiruri	Biosciences	Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning Multitrophic interactions Avian predation
Lynn Newton	Education
Naiara O'Mahony	Biosciences	Migration ecology of birds Climate change Species distribution modelling
Rebecca Owens	Psychology	Evolutionary psychology Relationships Sexual behaviour
Jonathan Rees	Biosciences	Automation of camera trap analysis Combining computer vision and citizen science Mammal conservation
Ian Rickard	Anthropology	Human biology Individual variation Life history theory
Angus Rosenburgh	Biosciences	Peatland and heathland ecology Biogeochemistry Applied ecological restoration
Alice Rowland	Biosciences	Adaptation to extreme environments Evolutionary biology Molecular ecology
Pete Rowley-Conwy	Archaeology	Earlier 19th-century Scandinavian archaeology Bones and plants from archaeological sites Hunter-gatherers, origins of agriculture, early agriculture
David Sanderson	Psychology	Learning and memory
Courtney Shuert	Biosciences	Animal behaviour Individual variation Pinniped biology
Martin Smith	Earth Sciences	Evolutionary radiations Evolution of ecosystem dynamics through geological time Phylogenetics
Sally Street	Anthropology	Cognition, culture, behaviour, ecology, evolution Phylogenetic comparative methods Anthropogenic biases
Jingrui Sun	Biosciences	Aquatic animal ecology, behaviour, evolution, conservation Behavioural and evolutionary ecology Conservation biology
Jamie Tehrani	Anthropology	Cultural evolution Phylogenetic analysis of culture Social learning
Mark Titley	Biosciences	Climate change and land-use change Conservation policy Macroecology
Jeroen Tummers	Biosciences	Aquatic animal ecology, behaviour, evolution, conservation Behavioural and evolutionary ecology Conservation biology
Cameron Turner	Education	Mechanisms of observational learning and culture Biological (evolutionary and neuroscientific) approaches to human social behaviour
Sean Twiss	Biosciences	Animal behaviour Causes and consequences of individual variation in behaviour Pinniped behavioural ecology
Stefano Vaglio	Anthropology	Conservation and human-wildlife interactions Human behaviour and ecology Primate behaviour and ecology
Alke Voskamp	Biosciences	Species distribution modelling Environmental change Conservation planning
Kate Wall	Education	Social learning Development of cognition and metacognition Mediating tools
Sian Waters	Anthropology	Primate conservation
Dave Weinkove	Biosciences	Ageing Host-microbe interactions Model organisms
Andreanna Welch	Biosciences	Evolutionary biology Population and ecological genetics Ecological genetics
Mark White	Archaeology	History of Palaeolithic Archaeology Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Britain & Europe Palaeolithic stone tools
Steve Willis	Biosciences	Biodiversity impacts of climate change Invasive species Biodiversity conservation
Miles Woodruff	Anthropology	Primate conservation Primate rehabilitation and reintroduction