Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- Plenary - Scent wars, by Invitation (Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (Cardiff), 2017)
- Keck Centre for Behavioural Biology Distinguished Speaker, by Invitation (NCSU, 2016)
- Plenary - Assessing kinship through scent , by Invitation (European Chemoreception Research Organisation, 2014)
- Plenary - Minding your Pees and Cues , by Invitation (International Conference on Rodent Biology, 2014)
- Plenary - On the scent of sexual attraction , by Invitation (International Ethological Congress, 2013)
- Plenary - Making sense of mammalian scents , by Invitation (Superlures Symposium, 2013)
- Lecture - What the nose knows , by Invitation (Christopher Barnard Memorial Lecture, 2011)
- Plenary - Rodent urinary proteins , by Invitation (Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (Berlin), 2011)
- Plenary, by Invitation (RSPCA / UFAW, 2010)
- Plenary, by Invitation (IUSSI, 2010)
- Plenary, by Invitation (Janelia Farm Conference on Olfactory System, 2010)
- Plenary, by Invitation (Genetics Society, 2010)
- Plenary, by Invitation (ASAB, 2010)
- Talk and symposium convenor, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Gordon Conference, 2010)
Organisations I have been associated with
- BBSRC Bioscience for Health Strategy Advisory Panel (2011 - 2016)
- Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour President (2010 - 2013)
- BBSRC Appointments Board (2007 - 2013)
- Chair of BBSRC Animal Welfare Steering Committee (2006 - 2012)
- Deputy Chair of BBSRC Healthy Organism Strategy Panel (2005 - 2009)
- NC3Rs Board member (2004 - 2010)
- Deputy Chair of NC3Rs grant funding panel (2004 - 2010)
- Royal Society Use of Animals in Research Committee (2004 - 2009)
- Deputy Chair of BBSRC Animal Sciences Grants Committee (2000 - 2004)
- UFAW Council (1996 - 2002)
- ASAB Ethical Committee Chair & Council Member (1995 - 1999)
- ASAB Council (1992 - 1994)
Professional Body Memberships
- European Chemoreception Research Organisation (Member)
- European Society for Evolutionary Biology (Member)
- British Ecological Society (Member)
- Association of Veterinary Teachers & Research Workers (Member)
- International Society for Behavioral Ecology (Member)
- Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (President, 2010 - present)
- Royal Society of Biology (Fellow, 2009 - present)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Deputy Head, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour
- Institute Staff Review and Development Committee
- University of Liverpool Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body