Academic Staff

Name	Telephone	Email	Research Interests
Dr Simone Abram		Contact Simone Abram	Energy and Society Inhabitation and Property Local Planning Planning Practice and Education Practices of Public Participation
Prof Catherine Alexander	41622	catherine.alexander@durham.ac.uk	-
Prof Helen L. Ball	41602	h.l.ball@durham.ac.uk	Behaviour and physiology of infant sleep Child sleep and obesity Development of sleep patterns and circadian rhythms Evolutionary medicine Human behaviour: parenting, infant care, infant mortality, SIDS, infanticide Midwifery and postnatal care Infant feeding and sleeping
Prof Robert A. Barton	41603	r.a.barton@durham.ac.uk	behavioural ecology and sociobiology comparative studies of brain size and structure in relation to behavioural ecology evolution of mamalian reproductive traits primate evolution and behaviour
Dr Sandra Bell	43311	sandra.bell@durham.ac.uk	environmental anthropology European wetlands Interdisciplinarity Socio-technical systems of energy Western Buddhism
Prof Gillian Bentley	41626 (Durham) / 40690 (Stockton)	g.r.bentley@durham.ac.uk	Behavioural ecology Early life development and later life health Evolutionary medicine Overweight/obesity and child health Reproductive ecology
Prof Alan Bilsborough	41625	alan.bilsborough@durham.ac.uk	human evolution, especially the functional basis for cranial diversity in early hominids and the reconstruction of evolutionary patterns the interaction of social and biological variables in human biology, with particular reference to patterns of nutrition and disease
Dr Hannah Brown	40244	hannah.brown@durham.ac.uk	Community-Based Health Care East Africa, Kenya Global Health and Development Health Governance Hospitals
Dr Trudi Buck	40254	t.j.buck@durham.ac.uk	-
Dr Ben Campbell	41621	ben.campbell@durham.ac.uk	-
Dr Matei Candea	43309	matei.candea@durham.ac.uk	Anthropology of science Gabriel Tarde, history of social theory Interspecies ethnography Corsica, Mediterranean, Europe
Prof Michael B. Carrithers	41634	Contact Michael B. Carrithers	Nature of publics and public sphere Rhetoric and culture Rhetoric of photography sociality narrative as a form of social and cultural understanding theories of interaction, dialogism and mutualism, activity theory East Germany
Dr Peter J. Collins	41604	p.j.collins@durham.ac.uk	aesthetics Britain, Kenya hospitals qualitative research methods religion, ritual and symbolism space and place
Dr Iain Edgar	41620	i.r.edgar@durham.ac.uk	humanistic groupwork in research and teaching imagination and dreaming welfare and community care
Dr Yulia Egorova	41598	yulia.egorova@durham.ac.uk	Jewish communities in Asia and Africa Religions of South Asia Socio-cultural implications of genomics Judaising movements
Dr Sarah Elton	40241	sarah.elton@durham.ac.uk	Ecology, palaeobiology and palaeoecology Evolutionary medicine Functional morphology Old World monkey biogeography Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution Primate locomotion
Dr Charles Gullick	41617	Contact Charles Gullick	-
Dr Kate Hampshire	43313	k.r.hampshire@durham.ac.uk	Africa demography health and disease human ecology livelihood strategies and security nomads, migrants and other mobile populations Pastoralists Sahel
Dr Russell Hill	41601	Contact Russell Hill	Primate Behaviour and Ecology Predator-Prey Interactions Felid Behaviour and Ecology Conservation and Human-Wildlife Conflict
Dr A. Maria A. Kastrinou		a.m.a.kastrinou@durham.ac.uk	Middle East and Syria Druze and Islam minorities and sectarianism power and politics anthropology of the state the body marriage and ritual art and dance
Dr Jeremy Kendal	41630	jeremy.kendal@durham.ac.uk	-
Dr Rachel Kendal (nee Day)	41627	rachel.kendal@durham.ac.uk	Social Learning Behavioural Innovation Cultural Evolution Applications to Welfare, Conservation & Science Communication
Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou	43313	elisabeth.kirtsoglou@durham.ac.uk	-
Dr Kris (Fire) Kovarovic	41628	kris.kovarovic@durham.ac.uk	African Plio-Pleistocene palaeoecology early hominin environments and methods for reconstructing habitats faunal community ecology mammalian functional morphology (particularly ungulates) tracing environmental change
Dr Jamie F. Lawson	41661	Contact Jamie F. Lawson	Attractiveness Human mating strategy Sex and sexuality
Prof Robert H. Layton	41636	Contact Robert H. Layton	anthropology and archaeology of art in non-literate societies evolution of social behaviour indigenous land rights social change, especially among French peasants and Australian Aborigines
Dr Stephen M. Lyon	41597	s.m.lyon@durham.ac.uk	Conflict resolution, political and legal anthropology Cultural Systems Kinship and Social Networks Pakistan Islam Computing and Anthropology
Dr Claudia Merli	43310	claudia.merli@durham.ac.uk	Medical anthropology Reproductive health Gender, embodiment Thailand, Muslim minority Female genital cutting Male circumcision Ethnopsychiatry Culture-bound syndromes Natural hazards and religion, tsunami
Dr Alex Mesoudi	40248	a.a.mesoudi@durham.ac.uk	Cultural evolution Social learning Gene-culture coevolution Evolution and human behaviour
Dr Nayanika Mookherjee	43296	nayanika.mookherjee@durham.ac.uk	Anthropology of politics, state, violence, memory, and human rights Gendered violence during wars Aesthetics, affective apparatus (museums, memorials), senses and the nation-state Political kinship and transnational adoption Ethics South Asia
Dr Tessa M. Pollard	41623	t.m.pollard@durham.ac.uk	Evolutionary perspectives on 'western' diseases Lifestyle, inequalities and cardiovascular diseases / type 2 diabetes The health of migrant populations in the UK, especially in relation to South Asians Early life influences on health (e.g. the thrifty phenotype) in relation to populations in transition Stress and health
Dr Ian Rickard	40246	ian.rickard@durham.ac.uk	-
Dr Andrew J. Russell	43312	a.j.russell@durham.ac.uk	Medical anthropology
Dr Jo Setchell	41633	joanna.setchell@durham.ac.uk	Growth and ontogeny Interactions between hormones, immunity and reproduction Reproductive strategies Secondary sexual traits and signalling in males and females Socioendocrinology Primate behavioural ecology Sexual selection Life history strategies and phenotypic plasticity Ethnoprimatology
Prof Paul Sillitoe	41632	Contact Paul Sillitoe	development and social change economic anthropology and tribal socio-political orders environmental anthropology and natural resources management human ecology and ethnosciences indigenous knowledge and participating development. livelihood and technology Melanesia and South Asia
Prof Bob Simpson	41619	robert.simpson@durham.ac.uk	'Human subject research' and the ethics of experimentation involving humans comparative bioethics kinship and the new reproductive and genetic technologies kinship, divorce, and relationship breakdown in Western societies narrative and biography Sri Lanka, ritual tradition and performance Tissue economies [as these relate to organs, gametes and embryos]
Dr Malcolm T. Smith	41600	Contact Malcolm T. Smith	current patterns of human evolution, inferred from genetic studies of contemporary British populations and predicted from historical demography historical genetics, inbreeding migration and the distribution of surnames
Dr Una Strand Vidarsdottir	41596	una.vidarsdottir@durham.ac.uk	craniofacial growth development of modern human shape variation (hard tissues) human evolution particularly the use of Geometric morphometric techniques to study changes in craniofacial form during ontogeny
Prof Veronica Strang		Contact Veronica Strang	-
Dr Jamie Tehrani	41631	jamie.tehrani@durham.ac.uk	Cultural evolution Cultural diffusion and independent inventions Phylogenetic analysis of culture Social learning Cognitive anthropology Oral traditions Material culture Fairy tales
Dr Thomas Yarrow	41624	t.g.yarrow@durham.ac.uk	Activism Development knowledge and practice Heritage Conservation Intersections between Archaeology and Anthropology Life history and personal narrative NGOs and Civil Society Space and Place The social construction of policy knowledge West Africa