Freelance Science Writer
I am a freelance science writer currently based in Toronto, Canada, with a particular interest in animal welfare.
I love communicating complex, scientific ideas in an engaging, balanced, thought-out and informative way.
Ears are essential for getting useful information from the environment. Not just information about what is around us, but where and how we relate to it in space. For animals, ears may serve another function: communication.
Read MoreWe can all think of some event in the past that has really impacted what kind of person we are today. Our past can shape us. This also holds true for how we experience pain.
Read MoreHow cool would it be to be able to read animals like we read other people? This idea isn’t as far-fetched as it may first appear
Read MoreHow can we use a general framework of emotion to study it in animals? Here, I look at two ways: through physiological measures and behaviour.
Read MoreThe next step on our journey into animal emotion, is to come up with a generalised framework for finding out what animals are feeling.
Read MoreIf you were to ask 50 years ago whether animals have emotions, the answer would likely have been ‘not at all’. But answering this question may not be as simple as 'yes' or 'no'.
Read MoreThere are a number of prevailing theories about what emotions are and how they work, but how do we draw all these ideas together into something we can work with to study animal emotion?
Read MoreWhat I've learned over the first two years of undertaking doctoral study.
Read MoreWe can tell a lot about how a person is feeling by looking at their face, but how much can we learn from looking at a lamb's face?
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