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Dr Catherine Sheard

Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard

Interdisciplinary Fellow

Accepting PhDs

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Biography

I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution, with a particular interest in the relationship between people and their natural environment.

My Google Scholar page can be found and more information about my research can be found .

Qualifications

  • DPhil Zoology 
    2016 - University of Oxford 
  • BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 
    2012 - Yale University 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Member, SBS EDI Committee
  • SBS Research Culture Lead
External Memberships
  • Senior Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Chair, BES Macro SIG
  • Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Biological and Environmental Sciences

  • Accepting PhDs
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

I primarily teach on BI3505: Animal Behaviour and ZO4543: Behavioural Ecology & Conservation, as well as contributing various lectures and practicals in topics across evolution and statistics. I also supervise honours project students.

Publications

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  • Territoriality, Social Bonds, and the Evolution of Communal Signaling in Birds

    Tobias, J. a., Sheard, C., Seddon, N., Meade, A., Cotton, A. j., Nakagawa, S.
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 4, 74
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey

    Matthews, T. J., Sheard, C., Cottee-Jones, H. E. W., Bregman, T. P., Tobias, J. A., Whittaker, R. J.
    Oikos, vol. 124, no. 7, pp. 817-826
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems

    Bowern, C., Haynie, H., Sheard, C., Alpher, B., Epps, P., Hill, J., McConvell, P.
    Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 195-227
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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