Fiona Stewart

I am currently Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London and the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), an Associated Researcher in the Department of Human Origins at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) and co-director of research at the Issa Valley research station in Tanzania (www.gmerc.org). I was formerly the Wheldale-Onslow Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, from where I also received my PhD in 2011.  My first degree is in Zoology from the University of Glasgow, where I developed initial interests in tropical biology studying dominance interactions of wild hummingbirds in Ecuador.  My M. Sci research took me to Fongoli, Senegal, where I managed the study site and conducted research into savanna chimpanzee nest-building behaviour.