Academic Collaborators

We collaborate with a host of leading researchers from around the world:

  • Dr Charlotte Bonardi (University of Nottingham) works with Domhnall Jennings on models of associative learning.
  • Dr Gillian Brown (University of St Andrews) collaborates with John Lazarus on the evolution of human sex ratios.
  • Dr Kevin Burns (Victoria University of Wellington) collaborates with Tom Smulders to investigate cache dispersal in New Zealand Robins
  • Dr Piers Cornelissen (University of York) collaborates closely with Martin Tovee on the psychophysics and eye-movement studies of body size and attractiveness.
  • Dr. Ian Dunn (Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh)  collaborates with Tim Boswell on understanding chicken reproductive neuroendocrinology.
  • Prof. Mitsushiro Furuse (Kyushu University) collaborates with Tim Boswell in studying the regulation of appetite in birds.
  • Dr Martin Gammell (Anglia Ruskin University) collaborates with Domhnall Jennings on projects associated with animal competition.
  • Dr Peter Hancock (University of Stirling) works with Martin Tovee on eye-movement studies of body size and attractiveness judgements.
  • Dr Sue Healy (University of Edinburgh) works with Candy Rowe on the evolution of animal cognition.
  • Dr. Rebecca Holberton (University of Maine) works with Tom Boswell on the physiology of bird migration.
  • Dr Ian Holliday (Ashton University) collaborates with Martin Tovee on functional imaging of how the brain processes information on body size and attractiveness.
  • Gerd Leitinger (Medical University Graz)
  • Dr Leena Lindstrom (University of Jyväsklyä) collaborates with Candy Rowe on the evolution of prey defences.
  • Prof Mike Mendl (University of Bristol) works with Melissa Bateson and Candy Rowe on Cognitive biases as a novel means of assessing the valence of affective state in animals.
  • Dr Julie Mustard (Arizona State University, USA) works with Jeri Wright to study the role of dopamine in aversive olfactory learning in bees.
  • Dr Markku Orell (University of Oulu) collaborates with Tom Smulders to study seasonal changes in willow tit brain and behaviour
  • Martha Perez (University of Havana)
  • Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck (Indiana University)
  • Dr Tom Sherratt (Carleton University) works with Gilbert Roberts modelling the evolution of cooperation.
  • Prof Joan Silk (University of California) collaborates with John Lazarus in the study of human sex ratios.
  • Dr Anne Smith (University of St-Andrews) collaborates with Tom Smulders on using dynamic Bayesian Network algorithms to discover neural network architecture.
  • Prof. Brian Smith (Arizone State University) has a continuing collaboration with Jeri right to study olfactory learning in honeybees.
  • Dr Viren Swami (University of Westminster) collaborates with Martin Tovee on cross-cultural studies of attractiveness and health perception.
  • Prof Carel ten Cate (University of Leiden) works with Candy Rowe on learning biases and the evolution of animal communication.
  • Prof. Annemie van der Linden (Antwerp University) has recently begun an exploratory collaboration with Tom Smulders to use MRI in wild birds