I am currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London and was formerly the Wheldale-Onslow Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, from where I also received my PhD in 2011. My first degree is in Zoology from the University of Glasgow, where I developed initial interests in tropical biology studying dominance interactions of wild hummingbirds in Ecuador. My M. Sci research took me to Fongoli, Senegal, where I managed the study site and conducted research into savanna chimpanzee nest-building behaviour.