2017
8th December Congratulations to Jim Swaffield, for passing his PhD viva today
4th November Congratulations to Irena Pavela Banai, who has received the Voya Kondic Memorial Award from the British Scholarship Trust, for the work carried out during her time here in Stirling
11th October I have been invited to give a plenary talk on psychological effects of hormonal contraception at the 2018 meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women's Health, in San Diego
1st September Welcome to Francesca Singleton, who has started her PhD on hormonal contraceptive effects
28th August I co-organised a symposium and gave a talk on human olfaction at the 14th triennial Chemical Signals in Vertebrates meeting in Cardiff
4-7th June I organised the 6th ISHE Summer Institute, held at Boise State University, Idaho
11th May I wrote an article on the underestimated human sense of smell for The Conversation
2016
1st October Welcome to Irena Pavela Banai, joining us to work on hormonal variation and voices
5th August We said farewell to our ISHE delegates with a ceilidh at the Stirling Court Hotel
8th June Welcome to Julia Baumann and Theresa Grod, working on vacation studentships
12th May We have completed a draft of the full programme for ISHE 2016!
12th May Julia Baumann and I have won a Biomedical Vacation Scholarship from the Wellcome Trust, for Julia to work on some body odour method development over the summer
10th May Irena Pavela, a Croatian PhD student, has just won a British Scholarship Trust award to work with me in Stirling for two months this coming autumn.
2015
12th November Our garlic work, published in Appetite, with Jitka Fialová and Jan Havlíček, has been attracting a lot of media attention.
6th November Congratulations to Dr Caroline Allen on her viva success!
26th September Caroline and I exhibited work on human smell to young visitors to the Stirling Science Fair
8th August I gave an invited talk at the Contraceptive Conundrum symposium in Washington DC, and was interviewed for Ricki Lake's upcoming documentary on hormonal contraception.
16th July I was filmed and interviewed for a Czech TV production on the hormonal contraception work of me and my Czech collaborators, Jan Havlíček and Kateřina Klapilová.
21st May My PhD student Caroline Allen gave an invited talk on our work at the annual meeting of the British Society of Perfumers
20th May My latest article for The Conversation, Why the'love hormone' might be less rosy and more rosé than we thought, has been published, and republished as The darker side of 'the love hormone' by Discover Magazine
8th December Congratulations to Jim Swaffield, for passing his PhD viva today
4th November Congratulations to Irena Pavela Banai, who has received the Voya Kondic Memorial Award from the British Scholarship Trust, for the work carried out during her time here in Stirling
11th October I have been invited to give a plenary talk on psychological effects of hormonal contraception at the 2018 meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women's Health, in San Diego
1st September Welcome to Francesca Singleton, who has started her PhD on hormonal contraceptive effects
28th August I co-organised a symposium and gave a talk on human olfaction at the 14th triennial Chemical Signals in Vertebrates meeting in Cardiff
4-7th June I organised the 6th ISHE Summer Institute, held at Boise State University, Idaho
11th May I wrote an article on the underestimated human sense of smell for The Conversation
2016
1st October Welcome to Irena Pavela Banai, joining us to work on hormonal variation and voices
5th August We said farewell to our ISHE delegates with a ceilidh at the Stirling Court Hotel
8th June Welcome to Julia Baumann and Theresa Grod, working on vacation studentships
12th May We have completed a draft of the full programme for ISHE 2016!
12th May Julia Baumann and I have won a Biomedical Vacation Scholarship from the Wellcome Trust, for Julia to work on some body odour method development over the summer
10th May Irena Pavela, a Croatian PhD student, has just won a British Scholarship Trust award to work with me in Stirling for two months this coming autumn.
2015
12th November Our garlic work, published in Appetite, with Jitka Fialová and Jan Havlíček, has been attracting a lot of media attention.
6th November Congratulations to Dr Caroline Allen on her viva success!
26th September Caroline and I exhibited work on human smell to young visitors to the Stirling Science Fair
8th August I gave an invited talk at the Contraceptive Conundrum symposium in Washington DC, and was interviewed for Ricki Lake's upcoming documentary on hormonal contraception.
16th July I was filmed and interviewed for a Czech TV production on the hormonal contraception work of me and my Czech collaborators, Jan Havlíček and Kateřina Klapilová.
21st May My PhD student Caroline Allen gave an invited talk on our work at the annual meeting of the British Society of Perfumers
20th May My latest article for The Conversation, Why the'love hormone' might be less rosy and more rosé than we thought, has been published, and republished as The darker side of 'the love hormone' by Discover Magazine
13-16th May Some of us attended the 2015 meeting of the International Society for Human Ethology in Athens. Caroline Allen gave a talk and a poster. The latter, "Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odour", won one of the poster prizes. Congratulations Caroline!
Well done also to Francesca Singleton, who presented her first conference poster, on her MSc dissertation research. I gave a workshop on "Promoting your research".
Well done also to Francesca Singleton, who presented her first conference poster, on her MSc dissertation research. I gave a workshop on "Promoting your research".
2nd-3rd May Paxton Culpepper and Francesca Singleton began several weekends of exhibiting our work and recruiting participants through a "Meet the Scientist" exhibit at the excellent Glasgow Science Centre.
15th April I gave a talk on Planning Research to Stirling's new intake of PhD students at the Stirling Graduate School's Induction Day
26th March We said farewell to Kelly Cobey who has left for her new post in Toronto
12th March I gave a talk on Stirling Crucible at the VITAE network meeting for Scotland and Northern Ireland
6th March My article on hand-smelling after handshaking in The Conversation has been picked up by IFL Science and The Guardian, and has had about 80,000 readers
13th February In celebration of Valentine's Day, I published my first article in The Conversation, on perfume purchasing, with Kelly Cobey and Caroline Allen
1st February As the deadline for abstract submissions for ISHE 2015 closes, the Chair of the Programme Committee gets busy!
30th January We said farewell to Vít Třebický and Jitka Fialová as they return to Prague. Díky! Až příště!
6th January Welcome to Paxton Culpepper, who is joining us to do a PhD in the area of mate preferences and oral contraception, and initially to also work as a Research Assistant on a face perception project for Boots plc.
1st January Kelly Cobey started her Fyssen Foundation fellowship, in a collaborative project between us in Stirling and Prof Patrizia d'Ettorre at the University of Paris
2014
27th November We said goodbye to Imran Shah, from Imperial College London, who has spent this week with us collecting data on odour changes following treatment for prostate cancer.
24th November I gave a talk on effects of oral contraception on relationships to the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester.
7th November Welcome to Pavel Šebesta, also from Charles University in Prague, who will be here for around a month.
5th November I have been organising Stirling Crucible over the past three months, and the last of 3 two-day labs ended today. It's been really interesting interacting with so many excellent researchers from different disciplines.
28th September Congratulations to my Czech colleagues and friends: Jaroslav Flegr and Jan Havlíček, for winning this year's Ig Nobel Prize for Public Health, for "investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat", also known as their intriguing work on psychological effects of toxoplasmosis. Sooo impressed!
4th September I gave a presentation on my research and collaborative opportunities to Stirling's School of Sport Away Day
9th October Welcome to Vít Třebický and Jitka Fialová, from Charles University in Prague, who will be working here in Stirling for 4 months.
21 August Congratulations to Dr Juan David Leongómez, who successfully defended his thesis today
5-9 August I presented a poster on oral contraception and relationship satisfaction, and a talk on androstenes, at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology, in Belem, Brazil.
28 May My student, Juan David Leongómez, has had his paper on cross-language similarities in vocal modulation and perception during courtship accepted at Evolution and Human Behavior. It has been an incredibly long and arduous process - but a richly deserved outcome.
13 May Our paper on Partner Choice, Relationship Satisfaction and Oral Contraception: The Congruency Hypothesis, in Psychological Science, has been published and already being picked up online
30 April I have been appointed as the Program Chair for the 2014 congress of the International Society for Human Ethology in Belem, Brazil
6-9 April Kelly, David and I all gave talks at the EHBEA conference in Bristol, on relationship satisfaction and oral contraception, voice perception and mate preference, and androstenes in male odour, respectively
Pic: Stirling bods at EHBEA, Bristol, 6-9th April 2014.
From left: Craig, Kelly, Eoin, Caroline, Mary, David
Pic: Stirling bods at EHBEA, Bristol, 6-9th April 2014.
From left: Craig, Kelly, Eoin, Caroline, Mary, David
20th March I have been named by Proceedings of the Royal Society B as one of their "Top Reviewers in 2013"
10th February I was interviewed talking about effects of oral contraception and odour in human mate choice on a Valentine's Day special of the BBC Radio Scotland programme, Brainwaves
29th January I gave a talk on production and perception of androstenes in the Dept of Zoology at Charles University, Prague
9th January Welcome to Mike Nicholls, who has joined the group on a 6-month research assistantship
7th January I have been appointed as an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
2013
3rd December The special issue of Human Ethology Bulletin to celebrate Tinbergen's influence on human ethology, which I edited, has now been published here.
1st November I have been elected Vice-President of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), my four-year term (followed by a four-year term as President and then a two-year term as Trustee) begins 1st Jan 2014.
31st October I have accepted an invitation to become President of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society, my term beginning 1st Jan 2014.
21st October I gave a talk on oral contraception and mate choice at the Institute for Ethology at the Université Paris-Nord
17th October I gave a talk on odour and fragrance at the Annual Forum of the International Fragrance Association (IFRA), held at the Royal Society, London
7-9th August I gave two talks on effects of oral contraception on mate choice and desire at the International Society for Human Ethology Summer Institute, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
31st July I gave the David Kelly Memorial Lecture at the UK Semiochemistry Network Conference at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
10th July Congratulations to Kelly Cobey, who has now become Dr Cobey!
11th June I have been elected as a Trustee of the International Society for Human Ethology
27th March Our new paper, on pill use and partner's facial masculinity, has been receiving press interest on LiveScience
19th March I have received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for further work on social consequences of hormonal contraception during partner choice
22nd February I have been named by Proceedings of the Royal Society B as one of their "Top Reviewers in 2012"
15th February Congratulations to Dr Alice Murray, who passed her PhD viva today
5th January The new year starts well! Psychological Science has just accepted our paper "Perceived aggressiveness predicts fighting performance in Mixed Martial Arts fighters", with Vit Třebický, Jan Havlíček and Karel Kleisner from Prague, and Tony Little here in Stirling.
2012
20th December I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology
19th December A special issue of the journal Evolutionary Psychology (issue 5, 2012), edited by me, Mark van Vugt and Robin Dunbar, has been published. The issue is titled "Evolutionary Psychology in the Modern World: Applications, Perspectives and Strategies", and can be seen in the Archive here: http://www.epjournal.net/
3rd December I gave a talk at Charles University, Prague, on "Promise and prospects for applying evolutionary psychology"
23rd September A book review of Applied Evolutionary Psychology has been published in The Psychologist
17-28 September I spent 2 weeks at the ESRC Genomics Forum in Edinburgh on a Bright Ideas Fellowship
10th September Welcome to Caroline Allen, who has arrived to start her PhD on body odour and fragrance psychology
7th September I gave a talk at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen, as part of a joint presentation on "Dating, mating and relating: the science of human attraction", with Tony Little, Lisa DeBruine, Tamsin Saxton, Fhionna Moore, Dave Perrett, Amanda Hahn and Carmen Lefevre
3rd September Along with Scottish Crucible colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University, Strathclyde University and University of Abertay, I received a small grant from NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) for a joint project: "Hands on Hygiene: increasing handwashing in healthcare"
30 August I gave a talk on applying evolutionary psychology, at the University of Dundee, to an excellent workshop for Scottish researchers, organised by Fhionna Moore
13-16 August I attended the biennial congress of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), at the University of Vienna. As a member of the programme committee, I also judged the poster competition - very tough!
1 August My paper on scent-marking and territorial behaviour in callitrichids has been published in the International Journal of Primatology
9th July I have received the Darwinism Applied Award 2012 from the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society, for my book Applied Evolutionary Psychology. This is the second of these annual Awards, having been awarded to David Sloan Wilson in 2011 for his work on the Binghamton Neighbourhood Project
1st July Kelly's paper on pill use and jealousy has been published in Evolution and Human Behavior
12th May My work was featured extensively in a New Scientist feature article The Personal Perfumery
3rd May My paper on contraceptive pill use and relationship satisfaction in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has been evaluated as a 'Must Read' paper on Faculty of 1000
1 April Welcome to Kelly Cobey, from the University of Groningen, who is working with me in Stirling for the next 18 months or so, and to Jim Swaffield who has started his PhD on evolutionary consumer psychology
26 March I presented a talk on oral contraceptive use and relationship satisfaction at the University of Durham, at the annual meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
16th March I have been selected as a participant in this year's Scottish Crucible
10th February I was interviewed talking about effects of oral contraception and odour in human mate choice on a Valentine's Day special of the BBC Radio Scotland programme, Brainwaves
29th January I gave a talk on production and perception of androstenes in the Dept of Zoology at Charles University, Prague
9th January Welcome to Mike Nicholls, who has joined the group on a 6-month research assistantship
7th January I have been appointed as an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
2013
3rd December The special issue of Human Ethology Bulletin to celebrate Tinbergen's influence on human ethology, which I edited, has now been published here.
1st November I have been elected Vice-President of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), my four-year term (followed by a four-year term as President and then a two-year term as Trustee) begins 1st Jan 2014.
31st October I have accepted an invitation to become President of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society, my term beginning 1st Jan 2014.
21st October I gave a talk on oral contraception and mate choice at the Institute for Ethology at the Université Paris-Nord
17th October I gave a talk on odour and fragrance at the Annual Forum of the International Fragrance Association (IFRA), held at the Royal Society, London
7-9th August I gave two talks on effects of oral contraception on mate choice and desire at the International Society for Human Ethology Summer Institute, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
31st July I gave the David Kelly Memorial Lecture at the UK Semiochemistry Network Conference at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
10th July Congratulations to Kelly Cobey, who has now become Dr Cobey!
11th June I have been elected as a Trustee of the International Society for Human Ethology
27th March Our new paper, on pill use and partner's facial masculinity, has been receiving press interest on LiveScience
19th March I have received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for further work on social consequences of hormonal contraception during partner choice
22nd February I have been named by Proceedings of the Royal Society B as one of their "Top Reviewers in 2012"
15th February Congratulations to Dr Alice Murray, who passed her PhD viva today
5th January The new year starts well! Psychological Science has just accepted our paper "Perceived aggressiveness predicts fighting performance in Mixed Martial Arts fighters", with Vit Třebický, Jan Havlíček and Karel Kleisner from Prague, and Tony Little here in Stirling.
2012
20th December I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology
19th December A special issue of the journal Evolutionary Psychology (issue 5, 2012), edited by me, Mark van Vugt and Robin Dunbar, has been published. The issue is titled "Evolutionary Psychology in the Modern World: Applications, Perspectives and Strategies", and can be seen in the Archive here: http://www.epjournal.net/
3rd December I gave a talk at Charles University, Prague, on "Promise and prospects for applying evolutionary psychology"
23rd September A book review of Applied Evolutionary Psychology has been published in The Psychologist
17-28 September I spent 2 weeks at the ESRC Genomics Forum in Edinburgh on a Bright Ideas Fellowship
10th September Welcome to Caroline Allen, who has arrived to start her PhD on body odour and fragrance psychology
7th September I gave a talk at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen, as part of a joint presentation on "Dating, mating and relating: the science of human attraction", with Tony Little, Lisa DeBruine, Tamsin Saxton, Fhionna Moore, Dave Perrett, Amanda Hahn and Carmen Lefevre
3rd September Along with Scottish Crucible colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University, Strathclyde University and University of Abertay, I received a small grant from NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) for a joint project: "Hands on Hygiene: increasing handwashing in healthcare"
30 August I gave a talk on applying evolutionary psychology, at the University of Dundee, to an excellent workshop for Scottish researchers, organised by Fhionna Moore
13-16 August I attended the biennial congress of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), at the University of Vienna. As a member of the programme committee, I also judged the poster competition - very tough!
1 August My paper on scent-marking and territorial behaviour in callitrichids has been published in the International Journal of Primatology
9th July I have received the Darwinism Applied Award 2012 from the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society, for my book Applied Evolutionary Psychology. This is the second of these annual Awards, having been awarded to David Sloan Wilson in 2011 for his work on the Binghamton Neighbourhood Project
1st July Kelly's paper on pill use and jealousy has been published in Evolution and Human Behavior
12th May My work was featured extensively in a New Scientist feature article The Personal Perfumery
3rd May My paper on contraceptive pill use and relationship satisfaction in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has been evaluated as a 'Must Read' paper on Faculty of 1000
1 April Welcome to Kelly Cobey, from the University of Groningen, who is working with me in Stirling for the next 18 months or so, and to Jim Swaffield who has started his PhD on evolutionary consumer psychology
26 March I presented a talk on oral contraceptive use and relationship satisfaction at the University of Durham, at the annual meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
16th March I have been selected as a participant in this year's Scottish Crucible
