Post-doctoral Research Associate position available to investigate
the consequences of out-group conflict in cichlid fish
A three-year PDRA position
in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol is available to
join Professor Andy Radford’s research team funded by a European Research
Council Consolidator Grant.
The overall project will
consider behavioural, physiological, reproductive and evolutionary consequences
of out-group conflict, using both empirical and theoretical approaches. This
specific role will focus on the study of a captive population of the group-living
cichlid fish Neolamprologus pulcher; fish are housed in the aquarium facilities
at the University of Bristol. The role will entail the setting up of breeding
groups, collection of detailed behavioural observations and reproductive data,
running of various short-term and longer-term experimental manipulations
(involving simulated intrusions), non-invasive hormonal sampling, statistical
analysis and interpretation of results, development of new data-collection
protocols, and paper writing. The post holder will also interact extensively
with other team members who will be focusing on theoretical modelling,
meta-analyses, and empirical data collection from dwarf mongooses and humans.