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Professor Mhairi A Gibson

B.A.(Dunelm.), M.Phil.(Cantab.), Ph.D.(U.C.Lond.)

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7963-4759

  • BS8 1UU

20022020

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Research interests

My research focuses on population and health issues, incorporating theories and methods from human behavioural ecology and anthropology. Based on long-term fieldwork in South-Central Ethiopia I study recent changes in reproductive and parenting decision-making among Arsi Oromo agropastoralists. I also work on the social dynamics of normative practices which are harmful to women and girls. In particular, I am interested in identifying the individual and community factors which explain the persistence of female genital cutting/mutilation and intimate partner violence in high-risk communities.

I welcome research proposals, in particular within Human Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Anthropology, and Applied Anthropology. 

Recently supervised student topics include:

  • Testing evolutionary explanations for “harmful cultural traditions”
  • Developing specialized survey techniques for measuring sensitive behaviour
  • Socio-ecology of infectious disease in Uganda
  • Human behavioural ecology of labour migration in Ethiopia
  • Infant feeding practices in Somali-born women in Bristol

 

Structured keywords and research groupings

  • International Development
  • Cabot Institute Water Research
  • Cabot Institute Food Security Research
  • Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research

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Projects

BA Heritage Dignity and Violence GCRF

Gibson, M. A., Gurmu, E. & Alvergne, A.

18/11/19 → 17/11/22

Project: Research

Measuring harmful cultural practices using randomized response techniques

Gurmu, E., Scott, I. & Gibson, M. A.

1/12/15 → 30/11/17

Project: Research

Biological and Human Dimensions of Primate Retroviral Transmission

Gibson, M. A.

1/10/11 → 30/09/17

Project: Research

Research Output

Bear bile use at the intersection of maternal health in Cambodia

Davis, E. O., Gibson, M. A., Lim, T. & Glikman, J. A., 24 May 2020, In : Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 16, 28

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    Inequality in the household and rural-urban migration in Ethiopian farmers

    Clech, L. C. O. M., Jones, J. H. & Gibson, M. A., 24 Apr 2020, In : Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2, e9.

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    Measuring Hidden Support for Physical Intimate Partner Violence: A List Randomization Experiment in South-Central Ethiopia

    Gibson, M. A., Gurmu, E., Cobo Rodriguez, B., Rueda, M. D. M. & Scott, I. M. L., 5 May 2020, In : Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 20 p.

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