Marie has now joined Sue’s Lab as a fellow that will be looking at the relationship between problem-solving and nest building, as well as the influence played by sex steroids on nest-building behaviour.
Sue wrote a book about adapatation in the brain and you can pre-order it now!
Shoko just heard that she has won the Suzuki Award from the Ecological Society of Japan, for her work on construction behaviour in birds. The Suzuki Award (ESJ encouraging award) is given by The Ecological Society of…
Congratulations to Sophie who will start an Associate Lectureship at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience here at the University of St Andrews come January 2020. Well done Dr Edwards.
Well done to Dr. Edwards who successfully defended her viva passing with minor corrections. Thanks to her viva committee Professor Ben J Hatchewell and Dr James Ainge and of course, Prof. Sue Healy. Also, Helen…
Sue is now, among other many things, the new CBD Director and collaborating with her is the new Deputy Director of the CBD, Dr Maria Dornelas. Cheers! The Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD) is an interdisciplinary…
The National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration granted us funding to study the architectural traditions in the building behaviour of the white-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali).…
This year’s hummingbird season was all science and all fun. We had three undergrad students collecting data for their dissertation projects (Caitlin Evans, Mia Corliss and Theo Brown). Maddy Buchanan, a master…
After a combined four months in the Kalahari, we have all returned to our desk jobs. From left to right: Lauren, Shoko, Sue, Maria and Isabella In collaboration with Dr. Andy Young, from the University of Exeter, we…
We are very proud for the blue tit team who just handed in their dissertations. Well done! Kirsty Bond studied the factors causing female blue tits to change nest box between breeding attempts. Rowan Stanforth…