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I am a Senior Lecturer in Epigenetics at in the School of Biological and Enivronmental Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. I study social behaviour and the neural mechanisms that regulate variation in social phenotypes in animals. I am particularly interested in how different environments and experiences can result in variation in social phenotypes and whether such effects can persist across generations, and am exploring this area in different fish species.

I have also worked extensively on the regulation of mammalian social behaviour and I retain an interest in the role that the epigenetic phenomenon of genomic imprinting plays in social behaviour in rodents.

Before joining the staff at LJMU in 2014, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Simon Reader at McGill University and Utrecht University, and also with Frances Champagne at Columbia University. I did my PhD with Barry Keverne at the University of Cambridge, having studied Zoology several years earlier as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where I got my first taste of research with Kevin Lala.