Researchers in Conversation
Revealing the lives of researchers from across the UK and Ireland; finding out more about their chosen field, what they have discovered, their challenges, highlights and what they might do next. At Tracksys Ltd, we like to understand the researchers we support and we thought interviewing them would be a great way of exploring this. We also thought you might enjoy hearing their stories too.
Researchers in Conversation
Professor Katie Slocombe on Comparative Psychology
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Caroline Norbury
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Season 2
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Episode 8
Professor Katie Slocombe is a comparative psychologist at the University of York. Katie explains how our close primate relatives can inform us on the evolutionary development of human uniqueness. Katie provides real insight in to the experience of being out in the field studying primates, with the highs of exposure to real wildlife activity, as well as the lows of poor weather, waiting for your primates to be present and the close proximity of animals you maybe didn’t want to study. She also covers the importance of people skills with regards to nurturing students and working with an extensive number of collaborators to facilitate the spread of knowledge. Her latest research involves a new strand to include the study of human infants.