Applied Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Lab

I had a great time recording an interview with Bluesci Radio's Rebecca Richmond-Smith. We covered everything from how I ended up doing this work, to differences between elephant species, my current research and what I think is going to come up in elephant research. I also share some points on getting into research on wildlife- think about the question you're interested in, contact people and get experience and try to accumulate transferrable skills. I hope you enjoy the inter

I'm really excited to let you know that a paper I wrote with MBiolSci student Simon Chapman has been accepted for publication in BMC Evolutionary Biology. I'm really excited Simon's exceptional work is being recognised. He was a sensational student and achieved top grades, but this is the icing on the cake. I'll wait to tell you about results, but it does involve data I've been collecting for several years as part of the Myanmar Elephant Project on elephant body size. #Asiane

Our latest paper published last week got a lot of press attention! The main result of the paper, that elephants born in the "high stress" monsoon season have faster reproductive ageing was of interest to lots of news agencies. The paper was featured on the homepage of the University of Sheffield. As well as IFL Science, Futurity, the Daily Mail, Yahoo News and many more across the world (including Spanish, Polish and Indian publications). I gave interviews with BBC Sheffield,

I'm looking forward to presenting my work on long-term effects of early life conditions in Asian elephants at the IWMC meeting in Sapporo, Japan. Hope to meet lots of people there! #conference #Asianelephant #Japan