MRes Animal Behaviour

On this course, your research project will focus on adaptive decision-making in animals in a range of contexts.

Masters by Research (MRes) programmes allow students to undertake a substantial amount of independent research while gaining 20 credits of transferable skills training.

The programmes are flexible in nature and allow students to take some additional accredited taught credits, in consultation with their supervisor.

Research projects in this area will centre on adaptive decision-making in animals in a range of contexts, including:

• trade-offs between social and sexual behaviour, learning and other components of life history, such as immune function and disease resistance
• associative and higher order learning in invertebrates
• effects of genetic differences in social behaviour on population dynamics in nematodes
• the evolution of insect pollinator systems