Dr Joanna Hall

Research summary

My broad biological interests lie in how evolution has shaped the form and behaviours of animals. However, I also have a general interest in how we can best model the complexities of the natural world in a manner that is both simple and empirically testable. My current research centres around camouflage, animal colouration and vision; thus allowing me to straddle the boundary between biology and psychology.

After studying for my undergraduate degree in Animal Behaviour, I crossed the border into psychology for my PhD. This led me on a journey into the world of vision and psychophysics. For my PhD ...

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Biography

I studied for my undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 2008 with a first-class BSc in Animal Behaviour. During my time in Sheffield I worked with Prof. Tim Birkhead in collaboration with Prof. Tore Slagsvold (University of Oslo) looking at the barriers to hybridisation in blue tits and great tits. At the end of my second year I was awarded a Nuffield scholarship to continue this research over the summer break. My undergraduate project was based in the same lab, investigating whether there was a correlation between sperm head size and extra pair paternity in passerine birds ...

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Recent publications

• Hall, JR, Cuthill, IC, Baddeley, RJ, Shohet, AJ & Scott-Samuel, NE 2013, ‘Camouflage, detection and identification of moving targets’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, vol 280.
• Tritton, T, Hall, JR, Rowe, ACM, Valentine, S, Jedrzejewska, A, Anthony, P, Melhuish, CR & Leonards, UB 2012, ‘Engaging with robots while giving simple instructions’. in: G Herrmann, M Studley, M Pearson, A Conn, C Melhuish, M Witkowski, J-H Kim, P Vadekkepat (eds) Advances in Autonomous Robotics – Joint Proceedings of the 13th Annual TAROS Conference and the 15th Annual FIRA RoboWorld Congress, Bristol, UK, August 2012. Springer-Heidelberg, pp. 176-184

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