The Do Lectures | Tim Birkhead

Tim Birkhead
Author of ‘The Wisdom of Birds‘

Tim Birkhead is a professor of behaviour and evolution at the University of Sheffield. His research on promiscuity and sperm competition in birds helped to re-shape current understanding of bird mating systems. His undergraduate teaching (for which he has two awards) includes courses in animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science. He hates administration.

Tim's research has taken him to Canadian High Arctic, Labrador, California, Australia, Africa and Europe. Since 1972 he has maintained a long-term study of guillemots on Skomer Island, Wales which is where he did his PhD. Tim has been president of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology and currently serves on the management committee of the Darwin Correspondence Project. Tim initiated the biennial Biology of Spermatozoa (BoS) meetings at Losehill Hall, Derbyshire in 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.

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