Group members

Daisy Johnson-Barrett, PhD Candidate

Daisy is researching perception and behaviour in swordtails, and is co-supervised with Jolyon Troscianko.

Caitlin Evans, Senior Research Assistant

After completing her PhD on great bowerbird bower building and display behaviour in 2026, Caitlin is continuing to immerse herself in bowerbird behaviour.

 

Kathryn Bullough, PhD Candidate

Kathryn is researching sexual signalling in green swordtails, and is co-supervised with Bram Kuijper.

 

Jordan McDowall, PhD Candidate

Jordan is investigating social connections in jackdaws and their welfare implications in the wild, her lead supervisor is Alex Thornton.

Jake Cush, research assistant

Jake is a research assistant in the fish lab, helping out with experiments and animal husbandry.

Former group members

Zixiang Li (PhD 2025)

Menno van Berkel (PhD 2024)

Emma Inzani (PhD 2024)

Dr Eleanor Caves (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow 2019-2021, now Assistant Professor at Brown University)

Dr Sam Green (Research Assistant 2023, now a Freshwater Ecologist at WildFish)

Madeleine Goumas (PhD 2022)