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Details for Dr Sean Rands
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Sean Rands |
| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Department | School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~frsar/ |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | BSc ARCS (Imperial, London), PhD (Bristol), FHEA |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, British Ecological Society, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, International Society for Behavioural Ecology |
| Keywords | behaviour evolution sociality in animals predation ecology decision-making wildlife biology behavioural ecology |
| Areas of expertise | My research explores how evolution has shaped the behaviour and life histories of animals and plants, using a mixture of observations and mathematical modelling. I am currently extremely interested in how leadership can evolve, and how groups of wild animals can reach consensus decisions. |
| Media experience | I have experience of interviews for both newspapers and national/international radio |