I have spent a considerable amount of time during 2014 developing an online introductory course to animal behaviour aimed at everybody interested in understanding and using evolutionary thinking to analyse some of the very fascinating behaviours expressed by animals....
I have kindly been invited by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciecnes and Letters (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab) to give a public talk on my research on spider behaviour and web biomechanics. The talk will take place on Monday the 28th of April 2014 at...
I have been involved with a short study on the use of passive sun-tracking motion in plants in the development of automatic windows blinds and sun-wells. The lead investigator on the project is Torben Lenau from the Technical University of Denmark, who talked about...
Last year I followed the TFP (Teaching Fellowship Preparation) Programme at the Oxford Learning Institute, which I successfully completed by writing a teaching portfolio entitled ’Reflections of Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate and Continuing Education’. The TFP...
Thursday the 5th and Friday the 6th of December, I had the great pleasure of attending the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour’s Winter Conference 2013 in London on the Evolution of Behavioural Mechanisms. I went for getting ideas on my own research...
This Michaelmas Term I have been handed a number of additional responsibilities at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE). The main new job is that I have been commissioned to develop and author an online course in Animal Behaviour at a...
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