These academic staff (Principal Investigators, PIs) form the core of the Centre for Ornithology Research and Teaching team.
Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour
School of Biosciences
Dr Chappell is an expert in the field of animal cognition and is involved in interdisciplinary research and teaching. Her research focus is on understanding the ways that animals use their intelligence to adapt to complex, dynamic environments. She is Deputy Head of School in the School of Biosciences.
- Telephone
- +44 (0)121 414 3257
- Email
- j.m.chappell@bham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor, Avian Sensory Science
School of Biosciences
Professor Graham Martin is an Ornithologist with an international reputation built upon his research into the sensory worlds of birds. In recent years he has used his expertise to focus on problems concerned with the functions of vision, especially binocular vision, in foraging behaviour, and in understanding why some bird species are particularly vulnerable to collisions with human artefacts, ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0)1386 859253
- Email
- g.r.martin@bham.ac.uk
Professor in Collaborative Education
Academic Director of Sustainability Education
School of Biosciences
Professor Julia Myatt is the Academic Director for Sustainability Education at the University of Birmingham. As part of the Senior Education Team, Julia coordinates and promotes the central place of subject-specific and interdisciplinary education in sustainability and climate awareness across the University’s teaching and learning strategy. Julia is also part of the Birmingham Institute ...
- Telephone
- + 44 (0)121 414 5598
- Email
- j.p.myatt@bham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor in Ornithology and Animal Conservation
School of Biosciences
Dr Jim Reynolds has worked on the reproductive biology and the nutritional ecology of birds from many different and diverse orders including passerines, geese, grouse, kingfishers and terns. He has worked in North America and in mainland Europe in investigating how human activity influences food availability and the resulting changes in avian reproductive investment and life histories. He employs ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0)121 41 43639
- Email
- j.reynolds.2@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Biogeography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Jon Sadler is a biogeographer and ecologist whose research focuses on species population and assemblage dynamics in animals (sometimes plants). His work is highly interdisciplinary, bisecting biogeography, ecology, urban design, riparian management and island Biogeography. It uses approaches that combine detailed field studies, field and laboratory experimentation, sometimes with social science ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0)121 41 45776
- Email
- j.p.sadler@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Zoology
School of Biosciences
Susannah Thorpe is Professor of Zoology for the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research employs a multidisciplinary approach in primate behavioural ecology to reveal how primates interact with complex natural habitats and the environmental constraints that steer their evolution. Her career has been predominantly based on revealing core aspects of human ...
- Telephone
- +44 (0)121 41 45040
- Email
- s.k.thorpe@bham.ac.uk
We conduct research within a broad range of topics which all have as their main focus the biology of birds. These broad topics include ecological, physiological and behavioural studies and there are a number of research projects which bridge between these.
The profile pages of staff give a brief description of each of their main interests and contact details. Please use the links to individual web sites for more details.