Overview
Profile summary
- Associate Head of School (Teaching & Learning) (2018 - 2022)
- Programme leader, BSc Marine Biology (f 2012-2017)
- Deputy programme leader, MRes Marine Biology (012-2014)
- Programme leader, MRes Marine Biology (2009 -2012)
- Deputy programme leader, BSc Marine Biology and Coastal Ecology (2005-2009)
Professional memberships
- Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
- Marine Biological Association of the UK
- Council Member, International Council of Ethologists
Teaching interests
Lecturing on:
- Introduction to our natural world (FYM003)
- Issues in Marine Biology (MBIO001)
- Introduction to Marine Biology (MBIO120)
- Marine Biology Field Course (MBIO123)
- Evolution & Behaviour (MBIO161)
- Experimental Marine Biology Field Course (MBIO226)
- Ecology of Shallow Water Marine Habitats (MBIO217)
- Methods in Marine Biology (MBIO223)
- Behavioural Ecology (MBIO317)
Additional information
- Editor: Behavioral Ecology (current)
- Academic Editor: acta ethologia (current)
- Handling Editor: Biology Letters (current)
- Editor: Animal Behaviour 2010 - 2013
- Academic Editor: PLoS one from 2009
- Consulting Editor, Animal Behaviour 2007-2010
- 'Top Reviewer' awards: Animal Behaviour 2007, Biology Letters 2008, 2009, 2011.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 14 Life Below Water
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Shelled shut-ins: a conditional escape task showing perceptual awareness in hermit crabs
Drummond, A., Spicer, J. & Briffa, M., Mar 2026, In: Animal Behaviour. 233, 123475.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A sensory investment syndrome hypothesis: Personality and predictability are linked to sensory capacity in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus
Drummond, A., Nash, S., Holloway, T., Wilson, A., Turner, L. & Briffa, M., 2 Jul 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences. 292, 2050, 20250932.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Intraspecific Sensory Diversity and the Decapod Claw: Patterns of Sensillation Are Heterochelic and Sexually Dimorphic In Pagurus bernhardus
Drummond, A., Nash, S., Holloway, T., Wilson, A., Turner, L., Briffa, M. & Bilton, D. T., 13 May 2025, In: Journal of Morphology. 286, 5, p. e70054 e70054.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Plastic or natural? The impact of marine debris on the shell preference of a terrestrial hermit crab
Puschendorf, R., Cotton, P. & Briffa, M., 1 Nov 2025, In: Animal Behaviour. 229, 123347.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Shifting attention: Assessing antennular ‘gaze’ in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus
Drummond, A., Spicer, J., Turner, L., Wilson, A. & Briffa, M., Jul 2025, In: Animal Behaviour. 225, 123233.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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