Louise Barrett University of Lethbridge, Canada

"Louise Barrett studies the behavioural ecology and social cognition of human and non-human primates. She has a long-standing interest in the use of observational and statistical methods to test hypotheses in natural social settings, as opposed to controlled experimental environments. She has conducted fieldwork in the United Kingdom, Uganda and South Africa, on both human and non-human populations, with an emphasis on cooperation, reproductive decision-making, life history theory and parental investment. She now plans to extend this work to consider fertility decisions in contemporary Western human societies.