Bio
Postdoctoral Research Associate. I am interested in the evolution of cognition, human behaviour, social learning, decision making, cultural evolution, and most other things. Dedicated to transparent, reproducible, Open Science.
email: lottybrand@gmail.com
2023-2024: Co-Investigator on the Cultural Evolution Society Grant: “Norm Misperception and Conformity as Barriers to Positive Change in Gender Ideology: A Mixed Methods Study in Northern Tanzania.” in Collaboration with Dr David Lawson & Joseph Kilgallen, University of California, Santa Barbara, & Dr Mark Urassa & Dr Alex Mwijage, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania.
2021 – 2023: Postdoctoral Research Associate with Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield
EPSRC has funded our project ‘Opening Up Minds: Engaging Dialogue Generated From Argument Maps’, led by Paul Piwek (Computer Science, Open University), Tom Stafford (Psychology, University of Sheffield), Andreas Vlachos (Computer Science, University of Cambridge) and Svetlana Stonyanchev (Toshiba Research Europe).
2017 – 2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate with Alex Mesoudi , University of Exeter
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Cornwall Campus. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant: “The Cultural Evolution of Social Hierarchy: An Experimental Investigation,” awarded to Alex Mesoudi.
Sept 2013 – Dec 2016: Ph.D – University of St Andrews, School of Psychology & Neuroscience
Title: Sex Differences in Social Learning. Supervised by Dr Gillian Brown and Dr Kate Cross. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation Grant ‘Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Cultural Complexity, Creativity and Trust’, awarded to Andrew Whiten and Kevin Laland.
Sept 2012 – 2013: MSc in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology, University of St Andrews.
Research project: Community and sex differences in the structure and function of chimpanzee pant-hoots. Fieldwork at Budongo Conservation Field Station, Uganda, supervised by Dr. Cat Hobaiter and Klaus Zuberbühler.
Sept 2009- May 2012: BSc Human Sciences, 2:1, University College London.
Dissertation supervised by Volker Sommer on “Speciesism and the implications of cultural variation in non-human primates”
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