Research Focus

• Research Synthesis Hub: Aggregating and synthesizing global evidence to map knowledge, develop methods, and fill critical gaps.
• Meta-Research Hub: Improving research rigor, addressing biases (e.g., equity, diversity, inclusion), and quantifying replicability.
• Open Science Infrastructure: Building collaborative platforms, AI-driven workflows, and tools to foster transparency and reproducibility.

Core Expertise

• Meta-Analysis & Systematic Reviews
• Advanced Statistics: Multilevel modeling, Bayesian methods, phylogenetics.
• Computational Tools: AI/ML applications, R packages, open-source software.
• Open Science Practices: Pre-registration, reproducible workflows, data sharing.

Current Projects

• Evidence synthesis for PFAS effects on biota
• Meta-analysis on trans-generational effects of parental environments
• Sex differences in thermal plasticity
• Taxonomic and geographic biases in academic literature.
• Development of effect sizes for covariance, skewness, and kurtosis comparisons.
• Phylogenetic multilevel meta-analyses.
• Interactive effects of stress and environmental enrichment on animal behaviour
• Global synthesis of disease prevalence in corals
• Taxonomic biases in academic literature
• Robust inference and reproducibility in ecology and evolution

Key Research Topics

• Fundamental: Sexual Selection | Mating Systems | Parental Care | Animal Personality | Ageing | Phenotypic Plasticity
• Applied: Evolutionary Medicine | Environmental Change | Eco-Toxicology | Anthropogenic Impacts
• Emerging: Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) | Trans-generational Epigenetic Inheritance | Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Science | Replicability and Meta-Science

New Directions

• Open synthesis communities for collaborative, real-time evidence aggregation.
• Integration of citizen science and educational outreach (e.g., high school STEM programs).
• Quantifying biases in authorship, funding, and publication practices.
• Replicating/updating 20+ key meta-analyses via DEAR workshops.
• Semi-automated AI workflows for literature screening and data extraction.
• Interactive knowledge maps using research weaving (systematic mapping + bibliometrics).

Past projects

• Meta-analysis of factors affecting judgement bias across animals
• Transgenerational inheritance of environmentally induced phenotype in zebrafish
• Maternal and ontogenetic effects on personality, cognition and metabolism in lizard
• Migration and life history in trout
• Meta-analysis on differential allocation hypothesis
• Extra-pair paternity in house sparrow
• Mating systems in an introduced species – dunnocks
• Maternal condition and sex ratio in mosquitofish
• Mate choice and vocalization in a frog
• Behavioural syndomres in a New Zealand skink
• Multi-dimensional behavioural change in hosts caused by parasites
• Phenotypic plasticity in common bullies
• Trojan sex chromosomes in mosquitofish
• Population genetics of house sparrows
• Nematode mitochondrial genome size and architecture
• Morphology of sex chromosomes in birds
• Genetic basis of variability in honeybee learning
• Molecular mechanisms of memory and learning in honeybees
• Catch-up growth and personality in mosquitofish
• Effects of catch-up growth on metamorphosis in frogs
• Meta-analysis on dietary restriction and longevity
• R-square for GLMM
• A Bayesian comparative method
• Missing data and model averaging
• Repeatability for Gaussian and non-Gaussian data
• Effect size, confidence intervals and statistical significance