Dr Rebecca Sear
Professor - Psychology

Research area(s)

Evolutionary demography

Human behavioural ecology

The family

Research integrity

Research Interests

I’m an evolutionary behavioural scientist, using an interdisciplinary approach to understand human behaviour and wellbeing, incorporating anthropology, demography, biology and psychology. I work on questions of demographic and public health interest, including fertility and reproductive development, child health and mortality, and health inequalities; and I have a particular interest in the family, and how family relationships influence these outcomes. I’m keen to promote a greater understanding of evolutionary explanations for human behaviour in the social and health sciences, and to facilitate interdisciplinary work more broadly. I'm increasingly interested in issues related to research integrity, including the persistence of eugenic ideology in academia. 

Founder member and currently President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association