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      Prof Tom Dickins

      BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, PG Cert
      ROLE: Professor of Behavioural Science
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: Psychology
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 4588
      EMAIL: T.Dickins@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Tom Dickins is professor of behavioural science and deputy head of the department of psychology at Middlesex University. His background is in psychological sciences (BSc; CNAA), philosophy of science (MSc; London), evolutionary psychology (PhD; Sheffield); and, ecological survey techniques (PG Cert.; Oxon). His research interests fall into behavioural ecology and theoretical concerns within evolutionary biology.


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      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Tom teaches across the departments of psychology and natural sciences, predominantly focusing upon psychobiology and behavioural ecology.  He also runs a two week residential field trip on Lundy island. For more details about this please visit Tom's website at this link and have a look at the Lundy pages.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Current projects:

        (1) Life on the Edge: A long term study of Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) - this project is run on Lundy and also at Lowestoft with Tom's PhD student, Kirsty Neller.

        (2) The foundations of evolutionary theory - this project is run in collaboration with colleagues at the London School of Economics where Tom is a research associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.

        (3) Littering behaviours - this project looks at the behaviours associated with littering and has emerged from a previous EU funded project on flytipping.  Much of the current work is spearheaded by Tom's PhD student, Claire Gellard, and her other supervisor, Mark Coulson.

        Please follow this link to view my publications.

        Publication Feed

        Humans discriminate individual zebra finches by their song

        Schalz, Sabrina and Dickins, Thomas E. (2020) Humans discriminate individual zebra finches by their song. Biolinguistics , 14 . ISSN 1450–3417 (Accepted/In press)

        Ancestral primacy of same-sex sexual behaviour does not explain its stable prevalence in modern populations

        Dickins, Thomas E. and Rahman, Q (2020) Ancestral primacy of same-sex sexual behaviour does not explain its stable prevalence in modern populations. Nature Ecology & Evolution . ISSN 2397-334X

        Stashing behaviour in a Herring Gull

        Dickins, Thomas E. and Thompson, Miles (2020) Stashing behaviour in a Herring Gull. British Birds , 113 . p. 235. ISSN 0007-0335

        Avian communities of Lundy 2008-2016

        Dickins, Thomas E. and Twigger, Layla (2020) Avian communities of Lundy 2008-2016. Journal of the Lundy Field Society , 7 . pp. 163-180. ISSN 1758-3276

        Conflation and refutation: Book review of T. Uller and K. N. Laland. eds. 2019. Evolutionary causation: biological and philosophical Reflections. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐262‐03992‐5. $60.00/£50.00.

        Dickins, Thomas E. (2020) Conflation and refutation: Book review of T. Uller and K. N. Laland. eds. 2019. Evolutionary causation: biological and philosophical Reflections. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐262‐03992‐5. $60.00/£50.00. Evolution , 74 (2). pp. 508-514. ISSN 1558-5646 (Published online first)

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        €534,642 EU LIFE+ Environmental Policy and Governance Funding Stream Coordinating Beneficiary: London Community Resource Network Associated Beneficiaries: Groundwork London and Middlesex University (Tom Dickins)

        Project: REPURPOSE - equipping community groups in estates to reuse more, clear fly tipping and improve their local environment.

        Duration: 2014-2017

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        • Committee Member, Lundy Field Society
        • Fellow, Higher Education Academy

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