Spring School tutors and their specialties
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CHIARA BARBIERI Postdoctoral Fellow https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chiara_Barbieri
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Research interests: Human prehistory and evolution, genetic and linguistic diversity, uniparental markers, population genetics, South American and African prehistory QMSS topics: Tree and network reconstruction, genetic diversity and phylogeography, genetic/linguistic parallels, DNA and mutations. Extra topics: Integrating genetic analyses in your research questions Read Chiara’s work: Ancient Substructure in Early mtDNA Lineages of Southern Africa Am J Hum Genetics 2013 Feb 7;92(2):285-92. |
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DAMIEN BLASI Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zürich & MPI for the Science of Human History https://sites.google.com/site/damianblasi/
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Research interests: Linguistic typology, interactions between language and cognition, culture and biology, language acquisition QMSS topics: Data science and statistical inference, how to structure and present statistical evidence, discrete mathematical methods Extra topics: Pattern detection in complex datasets, statistical meta-analysis |
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HEIDI COLLERAN Research Fellow http://www.iast.fr/member/heidi-colleran
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Research interests: Demography and demographic transitions, cultural transmission, human behavioural ecology, social networks, reproductive decision-making QMSS topics: Demography, cultural transmission, multilevel models, fieldwork Extra topics: Formulating research questions, data collection Read Heidi’s work: Colleran & Mace (2015) Social Network and Community Level Influences on Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Rural Poland, Proc Roy Soc B 282: 20150398 |
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ROBERT FORKEL Scientific Programmer
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Research interests: Research data management, reproducible research Read Robert’s work: http://clld.org/news.html |
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SIMON GREENHILL Fellow, ARC Center of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
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Research interests: Evolution of languages, language structures and diversity, human prehistory. QMSS topics: Phylogenetic methods, rates of change, speciation. Read Simon’s work: https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/19990 |
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FIONA JORDAN Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
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Research interests: Evolution of cultural diversity, kinship, linguistic anthropology, cultural phylogenetics, cultural transmission QMSS topics: Phylogenetic comparative methods for discrete characters, ancestral state estimates, correlated evolution, bayesian approaches Extra topics: Formulating research questions, data visualisation Read Fiona’s work: Jordan, F.M. et al., 2009. Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proc Roy Soc B 276(1664), pp.1957–1964. |
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SEÁN ROBERTS Postdoctoral Researcher http://www.mpi.nl/people/roberts-sean
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Research interests: Language evolution, cultural evolution, cross-cultural statistics, artificial language learning experiments QMSS topics: Basics of R, structuring stats projects, statistical non-independence, handling multiple variables Read Seán’s work: Roberts, S. G., & Winters, J. (2013). Linguistic diversity and traffic accidents: Lessons from statistical studies of cultural traits. PLoS One, 8(8): e70902. |
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ANNEMARIE VERKERK Postdoctoral Researcher http://www.evolution.reading.ac.uk/~tb904576/
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Research interests: Linguistic phylogenetics, typology, historical linguistics QMSS topics: Phylogenetic comparative methods for continuous characters, ancestral state estimates, correlated evolution, rates of evolution Read Annemarie’s work: |
