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Sarah Collins

 

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Dr Sarah Collins

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Animal Behaviour & Welfare, School of Biomedical and Biological Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: B413, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Postal address: B413, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752584616
  • Alternative telephone: +44 (0)1752 232883
  • Email: sarah.collins@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour & Welfare 

Programme Leader:  Animal Behaviour & Welfare

Admissions Tutor School of Biomedical & Biological Sciences (EEB group)

 

Qualifications & background

1984-1987: BSc (Psychology/Zoology jt Hons),

1988-1992: DPhil (Oxon)

1992-1995: Postdoc - University of Oxford, and later Institute of Zoology, London.

1995-1998: University of Leiden (EU postdoctoral position)

1998 - 2004: Lecturer in Animal Behaviour (University of Nottingham)

2001: Awarded Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice

 


Staff serving as external examiners

External Examining:

Anglia Ruskin University

University of Newcastle, School of Psychology

University of St Andrews, School of Psychology

 


Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Tabitha Luddem - (1999- 2003) PhD - University of Nottingham. Mate choice in cordon-bleu finches

Deborah Benham - (2001 - 2005) PhD University of Nottingham. Tourism and Animal Welfare : Sea Otters in Monterey bay

Ann Fitchett - (2002 - 2006 ) PhD University Of Nottingham. Dominance and stress in mice

 

Grants & contracts

2011 Seale Hayne Educational Trust - £6500

2007 Royal Society - £1300 Conference fund
2003 Royal Society - £692 Conference fund – attendance at International Ethological Congress

2002 BBSRC funded PhD studentship, £35,000– Stress and cognition in mice (co-applicant Dr Helen Cassaday)

2002 Research Committee, Life & Env. Sciences, University of Nottingham, £9000 for purchase of Observer Pro system from Nodlus.

2001 Leverhulme, £93,000 – Learning and immune trade off’s in mice (PI Prof. Barnard)

1999 Nuffield New Lecturers Fund, £4000 – Interspecific mate choice in estrildid finches

1999 Research Business Committee, Nottingham University, £6000 – funding for equipment for project on imprinting and speciation in estrildid finches

1995 Human Capital & Mobility Grant from European Commission - Two year Postdoctoral research grant at Leiden University (salary + research costs - 90,000 euros).