I was educated at University College London (UK), where I obtained a PhD in Anthropology in 1995. I immediately took up a lecturing position in the Psychology Department at the University of Liverpool, but, in 1997, got the chance to work in South Africa as a National Research Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Natal. After returning to the UK at the beginning of 1999, I was Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Liverpool (1999-2006), and a Reader in Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire (2006). I moved to a position as Associate Professor at Lethbridge in January 2007, and was promoted to Full Professor in July 2009. In January 2012, I became Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour.
