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Postgraduate Research

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We welcome applications from prospectives MSc by Research and PhD students wishing to join our thriving postgraduate research community.

PhD Students

Name Thesis Contact

Luke Crosby (2023-)

Thermal effects on species interactions: A field study on the cabbage-butterfly model system.

LCrosby@lincoln.ac.uk

Georgia Freer (2024-)

Are we making wildlife sick?

29598704@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Jessica Frith (2022-)

The evolution of sperm cell shape and motion.

JFrith@lincoln.ac.uk

Dona Frost (2024-)

Utilising below- and above-ground biodiversity for grapevine resilience.

29339848@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Roshana Gautam (2023-)

Above- and below-ground drivers of shifting greenhouse gas dynamics in early-stage wetland restoration.

RGautam@lincoln.ac.uk

Shannon Harrison (2022-)

The role of spin in insect jumping; insights across actuation mechanisms.

ShHarrison@lincoln.ac.uk

Lewis Holmes (2025-)

Phylogenetic resolution and a new evolutionary timescale for Temnospondyli (Tetrapoda: Amphibia).

LeHolmes@lincoln.ac.uk

Lucie Mellish (2024-)

Validating the use of cognitive bias to assess affective valence in wild bird populations.

29666533@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Andre Menezes (2025-)

Impact of cognitive enrichment on bran volume and cognitive abilities in fish.

30374856@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Joe Rees (2023-)

Don’t touch! Examining the function and phylogeny of shape in aposematic signalling.

JoRees@lincoln.ac.uk

Ruben Salazar Culqui (2022-)

Ecology and conservation of caecilians in Ecuador.

27033180@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Luisa Semerak (2023-)

Using FEA to visualise stresses and strains during puncture pull feeding in the Allosaurus jimmadseni.

LSemerak@lincoln.ac.uk

Chloe Wright (2019-)

Sociability and social competence in wild-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capusinus).

CWright@lincoln.ac.uk

Juned Zariwala (2023-)

Testing the feeding and skull biomechanics in diapsids.

JZariwala@lincoln.ac.uk

MSc by Research Students

Name Thesis Contact

Angel Cooper (2025-)

The role of entomopathogenic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in wheat performance under aphid herbivory.

AnCooper@lincoln.ac.uk

Callum Docherty (2025-)

Measuring the impacts of anthropogenic stressors on wild fish welfare.

26587835@students.ac.uk

Robin Ferrari-Silva (2025-)

A comparative study on variation in skeletal morphology and its effects on flight processes in birds.

26970778@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Chloe Galvin (2023-)

The evolution of colouration and aesthetics, using parrots (Psittaciformes) as a model.

25045808@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Amelia Ganner (2025-)

Physical, chemical and biological saline soil remediation techniques and their impacts on climate change.

25045808@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Jonathan Hubbard (2024-)

Propelled by pressure: Hydraulic dynamics in jumping spiders.

25681244@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Grace Kidman (2023-)

Aposematism and survival in burying beetle: What factors influence their evolution?

25282100@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Chloe Ramplin (2025-)

The effect of simulated heatwaves on the wing morphology and reproductive behaviour of Pieris brassicae.

26423803@students.lincoln.ac.uk

Jack Waterfield (2025-)

Auditory function in S. jorgevargasi: Ontogenetic changes in ear mechanisms and adult neural sensitivity to bat calls.

26587835@students.lincoln.ac.uk

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