The bones tell you everything about human
history, we are left with the imprints of
past evolutionary traits on our bodies to
date, and that's super cool. We find out when
walking occurred, when big brains occurred,
when we started eating differently, and that
order is displayed in the fossil record, and
that's so important to how you find out what
goes on. My project is a investigation into
how the anatomy of the foot vary within different
human groups. I'm not sure what the difference
is yet, but the numbers do show me that there
is a difference, and that's quite exciting
to find out what it is; i'm on sort of the
precipice. Anthropology is about the study
of people. So looking at the differences and
the similarities between how living people
are, what they do. We're one of the very few
that mixes biological and social Anthropology
within the same programme. Anthropology and
Zoology are both based within the Department
of Life Sciences, so that links us together
because we're both studying living things.
Some of the research that I do involves working
with Parkour athletes, so I'm interested in
the movements and the energy expended during
movements of all sorts of different animals.
Through the physiology labs we can study a
lot about animals in general by studying our
own bodies. We emphasise doing science, because
the fact that 're all researchers who are
active in doing this, we try to develop the
same sorts of skills in our students. The
nice thing about being in Roehampton is you
have, I think, the best of both worlds. You're
in London, but we're also right on the periphery
of London. Every lecture my pen never leaves
the paper because you're just writing down
everything they say. I didn't think I'd get
to do this sort of research until like PhD
and now I'm here as an undergrad already doing
it, and that is super exciting for me.
