About me

I am an Evolutionary Anthropologist and Behavioural Ecologist working across disciplines in anthropology, health, reproductive ecology, and family demography. My research takes a biocultural approach, where the interplay between biology and culture takes a central role in interpreting variation we observe in reproductive behaviour, health outcomes, and human life-histories. I am interested more generally in the behavioural ecology of families, maternal and child health, and evolutionary medicine. 

I am a fellow of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group at Oxford and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. I am the Outreach Officer at the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) and I am interim Director of Studies for Human Sciences at Wadham College, Oxford. 

I teach Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health (EMPH) and Practical Quantitative Methods to Human Sciences undergrads and Anthropology postgrads at the University of Oxford. 




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