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Dr Catherine Sheard

Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard

Interdisciplinary Fellow

Accepting PhDs

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School/Department
School of Biological Sciences

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
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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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  • Primate coloration and colour vision: a comparative approach

    Macdonald, R. x., Sheard, C., Howell, N., Caro, T.
    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 141, no. 3, pp. 435-455
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  • Limited ecological opportunity influences the tempo of morphological evolution in birds

    Drury, J. P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J. A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Morlon, H.
    Current Biology, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 661-669.e4
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  • Nest traits for the world's birds

    Sheard, C., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Troisi, C. A., Clark, A. D., Yovcheva, A., Trebaol, A., Vanadzina, K., Lala, K. N.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 206-214
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  • The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat

    Vanadzina, K., Street, S. e., Sheard, C.
    Ornithology, vol. 141, no. 1, ukad048
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  • Nest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics

    Hauber, M. E., Nagy, J., Sheard, C., Antonson, N. D., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Lala, K. N., Mainwaring, M. C.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 291, no. 2014, 20231734
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  • The macroevolutionary dynamics of mammalian sexual size dimorphism

    Megan E, J., Sheard, C.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 290, no. 2011
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  • Beak shape and nest material use in birds

    Sheard, C., Street, S. E., Evans, C., Lala, K. N., Healy, S. D., Sugasawa, S.
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 378, no. 1884, 20220147
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  • Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies

    Ocampo, D., De Silva, T. N., Sheard, C., Stoddard, M. C.
    Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 378, no. 1884, 20220148
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  • Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology

    Passmore, S., Barth, W., Greenhill, S. J., Quinn, K., Sheard, C., Argyriou, P., Birchall, J., Bowern, C., Calladine, J., Deb, A., Diederen, A., Metsäranta, N. P., Araujo, L. H., Schembri, R., Hickey-Hall, J., Honkola, T., Mitchell, A., Poole, L., Rácz, P. M., Roberts, S. G., Ross, R. M., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Evans, N., Jordan, F. M.
    PloS ONE, vol. 18, no. 5, e0283218
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  • Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds

    Vanadzina, K., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Laland, K. N., Sheard, C.
    Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 338-351
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