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Dr Richard Mann

Dr Richard Mann

  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Areas of expertise: collective behaviour; collective intelligence; bayesian inference; choice models; social interactions; movement ecology; behavioural ecology; evolution
  • Email: R.P.Mann@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 8988
  • Location: 11.09 School of Mathematics
  • Website: Personal home page | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID

Research interests

I am interested in human and animal behaviour. My research focuses on how agents learn from the world around them, make decisions and take actions to achieve their goals. In particular, I am interested in collective behaviour, where agents influence each other, and the emergent effects that make the group different to the individual.

I also have an interest in a variety of statistical biases inherent in data analysis across many fields, with a particular focus on behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology and palaeontology.

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Qualifications

  • DPhil Engineering Science, University of Oxford
  • MPhys Physics, University of Oxford

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research groups and institutes

  • Statistics
  • Applied Nonlinear Dynamics

Current postgraduate researchers

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