Robin Dunbar
Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology in the School of Anthropology, and a Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford
Robin Dunbar graduated with a BSc in Psychology and Philosophy
from the University of Oxford (1969) and a PhD in Psychology from the
University of Bristol (1974). He has held research fellowships at
Cambridge (1977-1982) and Liverpool Universities (1985-1987), and
teaching posts at the University of Stockholm (Sweden: 1983), University
College London (1987-1994), and the University of Liverpool
(1994-2007).
He is currently Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Director
of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology in the
School of Anthropology, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He was elected
a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998. He is co-Director of the
British Academy’s Centenary Research Project ‘Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain’
, a multi-disciplinary project involving, in addition to the University
of Oxford, research groups at Liverpool University, Royal Holloway
(University of London), Southampton University, and the University of
Kent.