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Overview
Profile summary
- Full publication list on google scholar
- 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
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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Interactions between learning and non-learning plasticity in the beadlet sea anenome Actinia equina: A multidimensional reaction norm approach
Briffa, M. (PI - Principal Investigator), Howell, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator) & Lane, S. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
Biotechnology&Biological Sciences Research Council
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Promoting contest skill to reduce the welfare cost of animal agnostic interactions
Briffa, M. (PI - Principal Investigator)
Biotechnology&Biological Sciences Research Council
1/09/21 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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Flicking fibres: Microfibres act as sensory disruptors in a marine crustacean
Drummond, A., Wilson, A. D. M., Turner, L. M. & Briffa, M., 1 May 2026, In: Environmental Pollution. 396, 127874.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On the edge of science? Commentary on Birch on Edge of Sentience
Briffa, M. & Sneddon, L. U., 2026, In: Animal Sentience. 38, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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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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Skilful attacking trades off with defensive ability in hermit crabs
Le Pla, J., Lane, S. M. & Briffa, M., 1 Jul 2026, In: Animal Behaviour. 237, 123633.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The color of combat: how subtleties of resource value alter the effects of fighting ability in hermit crab contests: how subtleties of resource value alter the effects of fighting ability in hermit crab contests
Chatfield, T. M. & Briffa, M., 1 Jun 2026, In: Current Zoology. 72, 3, p. 333–340 zoaf046.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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