Supervised Projects

only PhD and projects equivalent to MPhil listed

since 2024 Katie Crawford, PhD project (LJMU) (LJMU VC Felllowship). Can behavioural and physiological plasticity help animals to survive in a changing environment? supervisory team: Dr Julia Nowack, Dr Christine Beardsworth, Dr Ross MacLeod, Dr Davina Hill.

since 2024 Kathryn Bielby, MPhil project (LJMU). Do cities create smarter animals? Behavioural monitoring of adaptive responses in urban wildlife; supervisory team: Dr Julia Nowack, Dr Christine Beardsworth, Dr Ross MacLeod.

since 2024 Sally Westworth, PhD project (LJMU). Predicting density dependence of welfare of wild animal populations based on resource access linked to habitat availability and usage; supervisory team: Dr Ross MacLeod, Dr Julia Nowack, Dr Luiza Figueiredo Passos.

2016-2020 Marie Ragger, MSc project (Vetmed Vienna): The influence of temperature on feeding behaviour and telomere dynamics in hibernating garden dormice; supervisory team: Dr Sylvain Giroud, Dr Julia Nowack, Prof Dr Thomas Ruf; link to published work

2017-2019 Magdalena Spießberger, MSc project (Vetmed Vienna): Effects of early life performance on telomere dynamics in wild boar piglets (Sus scrofa); supervisory team: Dr Julia Nowack, Prof Dr Thomas Ruf, Dr Sebastian Vetter; link to published work

2017-2019 Leonie Arnold, Diplom thesis (Vetmed Vienna): Teat order and allosuckling in wild boar; supervisory team: Dr Julia Nowack, Dr Sebastian Vetter, Prof Dr Joseph Troxler; link to published work

2016-2018 Iris Tarmann, MSc project (Vetmed Vienna): Hibernation dynamics of garden dormice; supervisory team: Dr Julia Nowack, Dr Sylvain Giroud, Prof Dr Thomas Ruf; link to published work

2012-2016 Juan Scheun, PhD project (University of Pretoria): Reproductive pattern and its endocrine correlates in the African lesser bushbaby; supervisory team: Prof Dr Andre Ganswindt, Dr Julia Nowack, Prof Dr Nigel Bennett; links to published work 1, 2, 3, 4, 5