Lincoln School of Psychology News
Dr Hettie Roebuck who completed her undergraduate and PhD studies at the University of Lincoln has taken up a research fellowship at the MRC Hearing research unit in Nottingham. Hettie’s work will build on her PhD research and promises exciting results. http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2013/12/822.asp
Sandra Molesti (PhD student in the School of Psychology) has successfully defended her PhD thesis last week, passing the viva with minor changes. Sandra’s thesis focuses on grooming exchange and cooperation in the Barbary macaque, a topic that has important implications for our understanding of human social evolution. Sandra had an international panel for her…
Barbary Macaque expert, Dr Bino Majolo, gave an invited talk at the Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, on “Between-Group Conflict and Within-Group Affiliation in Primates”. The talk was exploring the possibility that human warfare might be comparable to between-group competition in non-human social animals like Barbary Macaques and, if so, whether between-group competition…
Craig Harper, a first year PhD student in forensic psychology has published a paper on transforming rehabilitation in the British Journal of Community Justice. The paper is part of the journal’s ‘Thought Pieces’ which are peer reviewed contributions drawing on the authors’ knowledge and experience to present stimulating and through provoking ideas. The full text…
The Barbary Macaque project (Director, Dr Bino Majolo) focuses on the behaviour and conservation of the Barbary macaques in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The ideal subject to introduce children to the different kind of work scientists engage in and answer lots of questions about monkeys! As part of the “Scientist in the School”…