ProfessorKate Buchanan

My work is regularly covered by the local and international press. The international press (BBC Radio, UK Press, NY Times) covered my PhD and postdoctoral research on song evolution and honest signalling in the sedge warbler. In 2008 ABC Radio National's Science Show ran a feature on my research into the effects of endocrine distupters on song production in starlings, with associated international media coverage. In 2016 the Science Show covered our Science paper's findings relating to prenatal calling and the implications for embryonic programming. This publication attracted considerable international interest (BBC, CBC, NY Times, Fox news, ABC radio).

ARC College of Experts 2021-2023

ARC Future Fellowship (part-time) 2015-2021

Chair of the SPC for the International Ornithological Congress 2018

Editor in Chief Emu-Austral Ornithology 2008-current

Consulting Editor, Animal Behaviour, 2005-current

Secretary Animal Ethics Committee of the journal Animal Behaviour, 2009-12

Invited member of UKs NERC Peer Review College, 2007-10

Council member, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, 2007-9

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship, 2001-3

Graham Kerr Prize for First place in Zoology at University of Glasgow, 1989

Co-convener of the Australasian Ornithological Conference November 2017, Deakin University Geelong

Chair of Scientific Program Committee for International Ornithological Congress, August 2018, Vancouver, Canada