I recently wrote a guest blog on women in science for the Newcastle Researchers Blog, which is run by the Newcastle University Careers Service. You can read my post, along with lots of other interesting material related to research careers here.
New book out now!
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues
This book has been published as the first of a series, Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour, edited by Rebecca Sear. The series is intended “to promote the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association tenets of rigour, integration and pluralism by producing a series of methodologically rigorous books with a pluralistic theme in the human behavioral sciences.”
This volume was edited by Mhairi Gibson and David Lawson. I am proud to have made my contribution, along with with Daniel Nettle:
Chapter 10, Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviour: An Evolutionary Perspective.
Video: Being there (talk at the ESRC Festival)
Being there: a brief visit to a neighbourhood induces the social attitudes of that neighbourhood
Here is a video of one my recent talks as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science event, “Using social sciences to tackle the toxicity of urban life”. The video just gives footage of me talking, so you will need to download the slides as a PDF here: beingtherepresentationslides.pdf.
The publication associated with this presentation can be found at: https://peerj.com/articles/236/
A delayed post about Prosocial Place
I recently gave a talk about my work as part of an Economic and Social Research council festival of Social Science event in Liverpool. The event was titled, “Using social sciences to tackle the toxicity of urban life” and the speakers came from a range of disciplines, from Evolutionary Anthropology to Sociology. The common goal? To understand the impacts of urban environments on physical and mental health.
Several of the speakers were part of the Prosocial Place initiative, which brings together researchers who have an interest in improving urban life. Prosocial Place is still young, but given the obvious implications of their work for city dwellers around the world, it might be one to watch.
You can follow the Prosocial Place blog here: http://prosocialplace.blogspot.co.uk/
Gillian Pepper 