Paper accepted in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
I'm very excited that a collaborative paper I have worked on analysing the use of interviews as a technique in conservation and ecology studies has been accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. I will make a version available very soon!

Fellowship in Berlin
I'm pleased to announce I've been awarded a College for Life Sciences Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. I will take it up next year. Branco Weiss fellow Hannah Mumby has been selected for a College for Life Sciences fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Dr. Mumby will take up the fellowship from April to July 2018. The College for Life Sciences is a program of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin to promote early-career postdoctoral life scientists. It

Fulbright Scholar Award
I'm delighted to announced I've been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award. Hannah Mumby, a Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to enable her to research at Colorado State University on one of the most well-regarded and impactful scholarship programmes in the world. As a participant, Hannah has been selected to conduct research on male African elephant sociality under different levels of poaching impact. She will collaborate with Pr

New post-doctoral Research Assistants
This week I've been very excited to welcome two new post-doctoral Research Assistants, Caitlin and Derek. Here they are, in their own words and pictures. Caitlin is working to develop a system to classify male tusks using photographs taken over the past 20 years in South Africa. She will also be creating a protocol for collecting photographs of male tusks in the field to estimate body size and condition in a non-invasive manner.
Caitlin’s previous work at the University of