Professor MUMBY, Hannah S
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
BA (Cantab); MPhil (Cantab); PhD (Sheffield)
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
