Megan Beardmore-Herd

Research Interests

I am an Anthropology DPhil student at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Susana Carvalho and Professor Julia Fischer. For my DPhil research, I am using camera trap data to investigate the effects of seasonality, major climatic events, and changes in the landscape of fear on baboons and vervet monkeys in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Whilst increasing knowledge of primate behavioural ecology, I am particularly interested in the implications of my research for the field of human evolution, specifically how my findings may inform understanding of the ways ecological change could have shaped the lives and evolution of our own hominin lineage.

Short Bio

My background is in biological anthropology, with an emphasis on human evolution and primatology. Alongside my experience analysing camera trap data as part of my current project, I have also carried out fieldwork in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, habituating and studying vervet monkey troops. Prior to commencing my DPhil at the University of Oxford, I obtained a BSc in Biological Anthropology (University of Kent, UK), followed by an MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies (University of Cambridge).

Associated Researcher, PALEO (Primate Adaptations, Landscapes & Evolutionary Origins) group, CIBIO

CIBIO – Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos
Universidade do Porto
Campus de Vairão
Rua Padre Armando Quintas, nº 7
4485-661 Vairão
Portugal

Affiliated Researcher, SAME, University of Oxford

School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
University of Oxford
64 Banbury Road
OX2 7PN
Oxford
United Kingdom

Associated Researcher, ICArEHB

Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB)
FCHS, University of Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 Faro
Portugal

megan.beardmore-herd@anthro.ox.ac.uk

ORCID ID: 0009-0005-7681-6510