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Dr Catherine Sheard

Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard

Interdisciplinary Fellow

Accepting PhDs

About
School/Department
School of Biological Sciences
Google Scholar

Biography

I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution.

My Google Scholar page can be found here and more information about my research can be found here.

Qualifications

  • DPhil Zoology 
    2016 - University of Oxford 
  • BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 
    2012 - Yale University 

External Memberships

  • Associate Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Deputy Chair, BES Macro SIG
  • Equality and Diversity Advisory Group Member, British Ecological Society
  • Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Biological and Environmental Sciences

Accepting PhDs
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Publications

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  • Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology

    Passmore, S., Barth, W., Greenhill, S. J., Quinn, K., Sheard, C., Argyriou, P., Birchall, J., Bowern, C., Calladine, J., Deb, A., Diederen, A., Metsäranta, N. P., Araujo, L. H., Schembri, R., Hickey-Hall, J., Honkola, T., Mitchell, A., Poole, L., Rácz, P. M., Roberts, S. G., Ross, R. M., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Evans, N., Jordan, F. M.
    PloS ONE, vol. 18, no. 5, e0283218
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds

    Vanadzina, K., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Laland, K. N., Sheard, C.
    Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 338-351
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities

    Triantis, K. a., Rigal, F., Whittaker, R. j., Hume, J. p., Sheard, C., Poursanidis, D., Rolland, J., Sfenthourakis, S., Matthews, T. j., Thébaud, C., Tobias, J. a.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1741-1755
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds

    Weeks, B. c., Claramunt, S., Sheard, C., Tobias, J. A., O'Brien, B. K., Chu, J. J.
    Functional Ecology, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1681-1689
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Avonet: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

    Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Pigot, A. L., Yang, J., Sayol, F., Alioravainen, N., Barber, R. A., Walkden, P. A., MacGregor, H. E. A., Jones, S. E. I., Vincent, C., Marples, N. M., Claramunt, S., Darski, B., Bregman, T. P., Hughes, E. C., Capp, E. J. R., Varley, Z. K., Friedman, N. R., Korntheuer, H., Trisos, C. H., Weeks, B. C., Hanz, D. M., Töpfer, T., Remeš, V., Nowak, L., Matysioková, B., Daly, B. G., Sorensen, M. C., Ford, M. A., Kelly, D. J., Annorbah, N. N. D., McEntee, J. P., Jamie, G. A., Zyskowski, K., Crates, R., Hosner, P. A., Stiles, F. G., Chibesa, M., Mashao, M., Mlamba, E., Päckert, M., Derryberry, E. P., Urriza, R. C., Brzeski, K. E., Prawiradilaga, D. M., Rayner, M. J., Bowie, R. C. K., Lafontaine, R., Scofield, R. P., Somarathna, L., Lepage, D., Illif, M., Neuschulz, E. L., Templin, M., Dehling, D. M., Pauwels, O. S. G., Analuddin, K., Fjeldså, J., Seddon, N., Sweet, P. R., Naka, L. N., Aleixo, A., Böhning-Gaese, K., Rahbek, C., Thomas, G. H., Schleuning, M., Devenish, A. J. M., Neate-Clegg, M. H. C., Weeks, T. L., Phillips, A. G., Montaño-Centellas, F. A., Leandro-Silva, V., Freeman, B. G., Cooney, C. R., Corrales-Vargas, A., Bravo, G. A., Carneiro, L. S., Moncada R., A. J., Baldassarre, D. T., Martínez-Salinas, A., Wolfe, J. D., Chapman, P. M., Neu, A., Mayhew, R. J., Silveira, L. F., Pollock, H. S., Grabowska-Zhang, A. M., Gonzalez, J. C. T., Meneses, C. G., Muñoz, M. C., Powell, L. L., Matthews, T. J., Johnson, O., Brito, G. R. R., Harvey, M. G., Zevallos, M. J., Bradfer-Lawrence, T., Bradfer-Lawrence, T., Maley, J. M., Lima, H. S., Provost, K. L., Howard, J. T., Chua, M. A. H., Gómez, M. I., Li, B., García, N. C., Fuchs, J., Ali, J. R., Carlson, M. L., Miller, E. T., Lou, Y., DeClerck, F. A. J., Cooper, J. C., Brawn, J. D., Fritz, S. A.
    Ecology Letters, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 581-597
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies: Models, Conditions, and Consequences

    Sheard, C., Jordan, F. M.
    Current Anthropology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 60-61
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Ecological and behavioural drivers of offspring size in marine teleost fishes

    Vanadzina, K., Phillips, A., Martins, B., Laland, K. n., Webster, M. m., Sheard, C.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 2407-2419
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Aposematism in mammals

    Howell, N., Sheard, C., Koneru, M., Brockelsby, K., Ono, K., Caro, T.
    Evolution, vol. 75, no. 10, pp. 2480-2493
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds

    Drury, J. P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J. A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Morlon, H.
    PLoS Biology, vol. 19, no. 8, e3001270
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

    Roberts, S. g., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. j., Sinnemäki, K., Segovia-Martín, J., Nölle, J., Berdicevskis, A., Humphreys-Balkwill, A., Little, H., Opie, C., Jacques, G., Bromham, L., Tinits, P., Ross, R. m., Lee, S., Gasser, E., Calladine, J., Spike, M., Mann, S. f., Shcherbakova, O., Singer, R., Zhang, S., Benítez-Burraco, A., Kliesch, C., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Skirgård, H., Tamariz, M., Passmore, S., Pellard, T., Jordan, F.
    Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 101-120
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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