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Email: emily.emmott.10@ucl.ac.uk Room: 326 (Postgraduate Workroom 1) Year of start: 2010 Subject: Evolutionary Anthropology |
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Research Topic/ Provisional Dissertation Title
Allomaternal Care and Child Outcomes in Modern Developed Populations
Supervisor(s)
Ruth Mace
Jonathan Wells
Introduction
My academic interests are based around life history theory, with a particular focus on pair-bonding & child investment behaviours. With a rising interest in cooperative breeding and its effect on human evolution, the influences of human allomaternal care are under increasing attention. With this, I aim to explore, “Are allomaternal carers important in a modern developed setting?”
In my current research project, I am focusing on partner and grandparental investment behaviours. Using data from Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, I look at direct investment behaviours of different allomaternal carers and explore 1) its effects on different child outcomes, and 2) its effect on parental investment behaviours.
Current Research Interests
· Paternal Effects on Child Outcomes
· Stepfather Effects on Child Outcomes
· Grandparental Effects on Child Outcomes
Academic Background/Education
B.Sc (Hons) Human Sciences (2009) University College London Thesis: Is Consanguinity an Adaptive Strategy? The Costs and Benefits of Marrying Your Cousin
M.Sc Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology (Distinction) (2010) University of Oxford Thesis: Marital Stability in Modern Market Economies: An Evolutionary Approach
Honours and Awards
The Dr Nicola Knight
Dissertation Prize in Quantitative Methods
EHBEA Conference 2012
Best Student Poster
Funding
MRC/ESRC
