By training I am an Evolutionary Anthropologist, interested in understanding human behaviour and adaptation from a evoutionary perspective. I completed a PhD at UCL (awarded June 2017) exploring cooperation among the Agta, a population of Filipino hunter-gatherers. This involved ten months of fieldwork in remote forests where I conducted behavioural experiments to explore how much individuals cooperated, who they cooperated with, and why. I am also interested in the ontogenetic roots of cooperation, the evolution of storytelling, and wider links between cooperation, life history theory and cultural evolution.

Since August 2016 I have been working at the University of Bristol as a Data Preparation Assistant - and more recently as a Data Pipeline Manager and Research Associate - for the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). This role requires processing, analysing and documenting data from a unique three-generational resource, spanning over 25 years, investigating health and social issues in a Bristol-based cohort. I have been involved in ALSPAC-based projects exploring inter-generational differences in health and well-being (using the ALSPAC generation 2/COCOs data), as well as investigating mental health in ALSPAC participants using linkage data from routine GP records. As a perk of my position, I have also undertaken research exploring topics in evolutionary anthropology using the ALSPAC dataset, such as the impact of sibling relatedness on reproductive development.