"Mindless Mobs or Smart Swarms?" was the theme for a Dana Centre event at the London Science Museum.
Working with Edward Codling and Nikolai Bode from the University of Essex, SHOALgroup designed a night of fun group experiments that explored the science of crowd behaviour.
Wherever possible, SHOAL engages the public with our science. We get people to take part in our experiments at University open days and public events.
Pictured are University open day attendees getting involved with our research!
Andrew chatting to 6-7 year old children at the American School of Warsaw, Poland, as part of #SkypeAScientist.
Feedback from the students "It is sooo cool... I want to be a scientist."
examples of public engagement and knowledge transfer...
TEDx Swansea talk: "Simple, Selfish, and Hungover: Understanding 21st Century Leadership"...
Andrew speaking at The Sport Performance Summit, London, 2016.
It was a unique environment, with 600+ performance practitioners from 30+ sports and 37 countries.
Andrew's work has been funded by AXA - a world leading insurance and asset management groups. In 2012, he gave the opening talk of the AXA Annual Corporate Meeting in Berlin where he described how evolutionary biology can inform team dynamics and effective leadership.
Andrew offers bespoke workshops, seminars, and keynotes for teams and organisations wishing to understand and improve teamwork and leadership.
examples of workshops and talks for teams, companies, and organisations...
Human-baboon conflict is prevalent in Cape Town, South Africa. These conflicts represent complex conservation problems requiring an in-depth understanding of animal space use in human-altered landscapes. Our baboon research with University of Cape Town has been incorporated into the City's Baboon Management Strategy document, and is listed in NERC's Impact Database.
engagement with policy and decision-makers; impact of research...
listen to some BBC radio programmes/interviews about our research...
selected press coverage of our research...
some videos from social media and news interviews...
African wild dog research (2017). Video by New York Times
Baboon research in Cape Town (2015). Video by Gaelle.
Some clips from news coverage of our work (2017)
Video by Andrew from 2005(!) in Namibia
