Education
Since 2015 PhD Candidate LJMU
PhD Thesis: Behavioural ecology of urban vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus pygerythrus
Supervised by Dr Nicola Koyama (LJMU); Professor Colleen Downs (Uni. of KwaZulu-Natal)
2014 – 2015 LJMU
MPhil Thesis: Attention bias as a welfare tool for captive rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta
Supervised by Dr Emily Bethell
2010 – 2015 LJMU
BSc Zoology with placement year (1st)
BSc Thesis: The influence of four different feeding enrichments on the activity patterns of captive lemurs. Supervised by: Dr Nicola Koyama
Research Experience
April 2014 – September 2014
Liverpool John Moores University, Medical Research Council, Centre for Macaques UK. Research internship.
September 2012-March 2013
Frontier Tanzania, Mafia Island Marine Park (Tanzania). Research internship.
March 2013- September 2013
Manor House Wildlife Park (UK). Research Project.
Teaching Experience
July 2019-Present
Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sept 2018-May 2019
Lecturer in Conservation Science and Field Research, Bristol Zoological Society, UK
Sept 2017 –Sept 2018
Demonstrator, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dec 2015 –July 2017
Demonstrator, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Skills
- Animal behaviour field techniques and various recording platforms
- Basic laboratory skills, genetic analysis, parasite analysis
- Data analysis software including: R statistical package, SPSS, QGIS and UCINET
Languages
English
Research Centre for Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology 