Research
Research groups
Research grants
Development of 3D modelling method to aid study of primate behaviour patterns and support preferences in a complex 3D environment
PRIMATE SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN (UK)
March 2015 - August 2015
Compliant interactions and limb mechanics during arboreal locomotion in tropical forest environments.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2008 - September 2011
An optimization model of the metabolic costs of bipedal and quadrupedal gaits.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2002 - April 2005
Primate skeletal form, biomechanics and evolution.
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
January 2001 - December 2003
Development and validation of a numerical model of food comminution.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2001 - June 2005
Effects of enrichment of the physical environment on locomotion and activity levels in captive Western lowland gorillas in the UK
PRIMATE SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN (UK)
March 2013 - August 2013
A mechanical model of the foot of apes, applied to the fossil record.
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
August 1999 - July 2002
Body size, mechanical energy costs and locomotor strategies in prosimian primates.
ROYAL SOCIETY
July 2007
Pads versus claws: habitat use and locomotion/substrate interactions in a predator- and prey-pair in Madagascar: Cryptoprocta versus Propithecus.
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
October 2008 - March 2012
Footprints: the science of walking on four and two feet.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2001 - December 2001
A model for predicting the metabolic energy costs of bipedal and quadrupedal gaits from foot contact parameters.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2000 - October 2003
The role of foot pressure in directional control and turning
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
April 2012 - September 2014
Bipedalism or bipedalisms? Mechanical function of the early hominid foot.
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
January 2006 - September 2009
Digital Conservation and Reconstruction of 'Fossilized Behaviour': the evolution of the human foot as revealed by ancient footprint trails
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2010 - September 2013
Saudi Embassy Bench Fees
ROYAL EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA
April 2014 - March 2015
Quadrupedalism, Climbing and Bipedalism: mechanical adaptation of great ape locomotion in the Miocene.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 1998 - December 2001
A three-dimensional hybrid rigid/finite elements model of the formation of contact, joint and soft tissue forces in the human foot, applied to analysis of the torque converter pronation mechanism.
ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GB & IRELAND (UK)
April 2005 - March 2008