Podcasting, University Lectures and Science Education

Lecturers

Author Biographies and Research Interests:

Mike Bonsall

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

My research interests focus on resource-consumer interactions examining how species coexist through space and time. This research involves developing appropriate mathematical models and experiments to test hypotheses on species coexistence. Primarily, we use parasitism as the life-history mode to explore the coexistence of multiple species in resource-consumer interactions.

Octavian Buda

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

M.D. Graduation at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Carol Davila’ - Bucharest, 1992. Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, 1997 Graduate Thesis: Karl Jaspers’ Anthropology and Political Philosophy.Ph.D.

Susan Cheyne

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

In 2000 I started my PhD in Primate Biology and Conservation at Cambridge University and graduated in 2004. During this time I worked at the Kalaweit Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, with which I am still associated as a scientific advisor and coordinator for Kalaweit UK. Responsibilities include coordinating the volunteer programme and raising awareness of the plight of gibbons.

Anne Digby

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

Prof. Anne Digby’s research ranges widely over the landscape of British social history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries: from schooling and society to the New Poor Law, agrarian society in the nineteenth century to welfare policy in the twentieth. However, her primary current interest is in the social history of medicine.

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Robin Dunbar

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

Robin Dunbar is currently Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology in the School of Anthropology, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998.

Björn Felder

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

Björn Felder received his PhD by University of Tübingen in 2006, and was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary history for his thesis comparing the both colonial and racist occupation policies implemented during the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia as well as the local population’s responses to these.

Arunas Germanavicius

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

Arunas Germanavicius has worked on numerous research projects since graduating from the University of Vilnius’ Faculty of Medicine with cum laude in 1994. He was the co-investigator of Lithuanian research team led by Prof.

Chris Jarvis

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

Chris Jarvis is one of the Education Officers at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Having spent his formative years in Nigeria, where he grew up surrounded by wildlife and kept snakes, owls, bushbabies, bushpig and other animals as pets, he has been a keen amateur naturalist all his life.

Ken Kalling

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

Ken is interested in History of physical anthropology, racial studies, eugenics and medicine.
1982-1986 University of Tartu, biology (unfinished);
1986-1993 University of Tartu, history (archaeology / physical anthropology), B. A. degree;
1994-1995 Central European University, Budapest (Medieval studies), M.A. degree.
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Steve King

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

Steve King is a Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, Assistant Dean for Resources in the School of Arts and Humanities, as well as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Grant Panel.

Steve King was awarded his PhD in 1994. His research interests are varied, spanning a range of periods, themes and countries, but may be grouped under four broad headings:



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