Dr.MUMBY, Hannah S

Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU

BA (Cantab); MPhil (Cantab); PhD (Sheffield)

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KBSB 2N10

Teaching Areas

Environmental Science
Human-wildlife interactions
Qualitative Methods
Science-Policy Interface
Conservation Science

Research Interests

Behavioural ecology of large mammals
Human and animal dimensions of conservation
Applications of ecology and behaviour to conservation
Large mammals
Study species include African elephants, Asian elephants and wild boar

Current Research

Male elephant social behaviour
Distribution and evolution of tusk size in elephants
Elephant communication
Social learning in elephants
Analysis of elephant behavioural experiments
Human-elephant relationships
Interspecific interactions between humans and large mammals
Human perspectives on wild boar
Developing strategies for wild boar-human coexistence

Research Team

Teresa Santos (PhD student, co-supervised with Carlos Fernandes, University of Lisbon)
Derek Murphy (Post-doctoral researcher, based in Edinburgh)

Fellowships

Branco Weiss – Society in Science Fellow 2015-2020
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Witwatersrand, 2018-Present
Drapers’ Company Fellow 2015-2019
College for Life Sciences Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Fulbright Scholar 2017
DST-NRF Early Career Fellow, University of South Africa 2016

Publications and News

Book Project on the lives of elephants, to be published with HarperCollins (English) and Hanser Munich (German) in 2020.
Fieldwork in southern Africa and Nepal
Paper on variation in elephant tusk size in press with Frontiers in Zoology
For a full list of publications, see https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=cROJrJkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Awards and Honours

Fulbright Scholar Award 2017