Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour

Location: David 008
Telephone: +44(0)845 196 2146 or +44(0)1223 698146
Email: laura.kelley@anglia.ac.uk

Personal Profile

2012 - date: Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University
2010 - 2012: Research Fellow, Deakin University, Australia
2006 - 2010: PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK

Research Interests

I have a broad interest in animal behaviour and sensory ecology. My research primarily focuses on the production and perception of visual and acoustic signals. Previous research projects include visual illusions in the sexual displays of great bowerbirds and the acquisition and function of vocal mimicry in songbirds.

Consultancy and other Professional Activity

• Scientific consultant for Balangara Films
• Member of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
• Member of the Australian Evolution Society
• Member of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology

Publications

Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2012) Vocal mimicry in spotted bowerbirds is associated with an alarming context. Journal of Avian Biology.

Endler, J. A., Mielke, P. W. Jr & Kelley, L. A. (2012) Response to comment on "Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds." Science, 337, 292.

Kelley, L. A. & Endler, J. A. (2012) Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds. Science, 335, 335-338.

Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2011) The mimetic repertoire of the spotted bowerbird Ptilonorhychus maculatus. Naturwissenschaften, 98, 501-507.

Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2011) Quick guide: vocal mimicry. Current Biology, 21, 9 - 10.

Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2010). Vocal mimicry in male bowerbirds: who learns from whom? Biology Letters, 6, 626 - 629.

Healy, S. D., Bacon, I. E., Haggis, O., Harris, A. P. & Kelley, L. A. (2009). Explanations for variation in cognitive ability: Behavioural ecology meets comparative cognition. Behavioural Processes, 80, 288-294.

Kelley, L. A., Coe, R. L., Madden, J.R & Healy, S.D. (2008) Vocal mimicry in songbirds. Animal Behaviour, 76, 521-528.