Kirsty E. Graham
EDUCATION
2017 PhD, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
2012 Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science, Quest University Canada
EMPLOYMENT
2020 Research Fellow. University of St Andrews (Sept 2020 - present)
2017 Research Associate. University of York (July 2017- Aug 2020)
2016 Research Assistant. University of St Andrews & Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute (Dec 2016-July 2017)
2016 Camp Manager, Kalinzu Research Station, Primate Research Institute (Sept-Dec)
PUBLICATIONS
Graham, K. E., Wilke, C. P., Lahiff, N. J., & Slocombe, K. E. (I2019). Scratching Beneath the Surface: Intentionality in Great Ape Signal production. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375.
Graham, K. E., & Hobaiter, C. (2019). Gestural Communication in the Great Apes. In J. C. Choe (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (Second edi, pp. 371–377).
Graham, K. E., Hobaiter, C., Ounsley, J., Furuichi, T., & Byrne, R. W. (2018). Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning. PLoS biology, 16(2), e2004825.
Graham, K.E., Furuichi, T., & Byrne, R. (2017). The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system. Animal Cognition. 20(2), 171-177. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-016-1035-9
Ryu, H., Graham, K.E., Sakamaki, T., & Furuichi, T. (2016). Long-sightedness in old wild bonobos during grooming. Current Biology, 26, R1-R3.
Tokuyama, N., Moore, D.L., Graham, K.E., Lokasola, A., & Furuichi T. (2016). Cases of maternal cannibalism in wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) from two different field sites, Wamba and Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Primates. [published online]
Barceló-Coblijn, L., Cuthbertson, C.M., Graham, K.E., Hartmann, S., and Pleyer, M. (2016). Conference report on Evolang 11. Journal of Language Evolution, 1(2), 159-162
Graham, K. E., Bulloch, M. J., & Lewis, T. R. (2013). Foraging behaviour of three primate species in a Costa Rican coastal lowland tropical wet forest. Biodiversity Journal, 4(2), 327–334.
Lewis, T. R., Griffin, R. K., Grant, P. B. C., Figueroa, A., Ray, J. M., Graham, K. E., & David, G. (2013). Morphology and ecology of Sibon snakes (Squamata: Dipsadidae) from two forests in Central America. Phyllomedusa, 12(1), 47–55.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2019 Public Engagement Masterclass, 50% Bursary, Wellcome Genome Campus Scientific Conferences2017 Gorilla Awards in Behavioural Science, Shortlisted, Gorilla.sc
2016 Russell Trust Award (Postgraduate), University of St Andrews
2016 St Leonard's College Lecture Prize. University of St Andrews
2016 Grindley Grant for Conference Attendance. Experimental Psychology Society
2014 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Used at University of St Andrews (2014-15)
2013 600th Anniversary Doctoral Scholarship. University of St Andrews (2013-16)
2012 Distinction for Keystone Paper. Quest University Canada
2009 Outstanding Student of the Year. Quest University Canada (2009-10)
2008 David Strangway Award for Excellence, Full Tuition Scholarship. Quest University Canada (2008-12)
INVITED TALKS
2020 Meaning & Context in great ape gestures. ISLE, Zurich, Switzerland (Aug 28)
2019 From deducing meanings to understanding meanings in great ape gestures. Animal Communication Workshop. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (Dec 12)
2019 Bonobos: Our endangered cousins. University of St Andrews, UK (Nov 15)
2019 Semantics in ape gestures: A Gricean approach to intentionality and meaning of bonobo gestures. “Animal Linguistics, take the leap!” Workshop. Paris, France (Jun 18)
2019 How do non-human primates communicate? BKSDA, Indonesia (Feb 25)
2018 How do non-human primates communicate? BKSDA, Indonesia (Aug 21)
2018 How do non-human primates communicate? IPB, Indonesia (Mar 15)
2017 “Jane”, Introductory talk to film screening of “Jane”, Derby QUAD (Dec 5)
2017 How can we discover what great ape gestures mean. Graduate Women Scotland, research presentations day, Dundee, UK (Apr 29)2017 How can we discover what great ape gestures mean. The 7th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto, Japan (Mar 4) 2016 How do chimpanzees and bonobos communicate? Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda (Nov 22)
2015 Communication gestuelle des bonobos sauvages. Kinshasa University, DRC (Jan 14)
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Papers Presented
2019 The Great Ape Dictionary. EFP/PSGB. Oxford, UK (Sept 8-11)
2019 What's in a look? LCICD. Lancaster, UK (Aug 21-23)
2019 A Gricean approach to intentionality and meaning of bonobo gestures. SPRG Annual Meeting – the Burn, Scotland (May 10-12)
2018 Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures share similar meanings. Biotweeps Twitter Conference (Jun 21-22)
2016 Meaning in the shared gestural repertoires of wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Budongo, Uganda. IPS/ASP, Chicago (Aug 21-27)
2016 Intentional Meaning of Bonobo Gestures. Evolang, New Orleans (Mar 21-24)
2016 Meaning in wild bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestural communication. SPRG Annual Meeting - the Burn, Scotland (Mar 4-6)
2015 Comparison of Gestural Communication for Pan species. ASAB Summer Conference 2015, Lincoln (Aug 26-27)
Posters Presented
2019 Bonobo & chimpanzee gestures share many of the same meanings. Uni of York Science Research Staff Conference (Jun 26)
2019 Bonobo & chimpanzee gestures share many of the same meanings. Poster+Flash talk. ASAB Easter Conference 2019, York (Apr 3-5)
2017 Finding meaning in the gestural communication of wild bonobos. 61st Primates Conference, Japan Monkey Center (Jan 28-29)
2016 Expressed and understood gestural repertoires of wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). Chimps in Context, Chicago (Aug 18-20)
Workshops
2019 Public Engagement Masterclass, Cambridge, July 8-10
2019 Atlas of Comparative Cognition, Zurich, Mar 6
2018 Multimodal Communication, York, Oct 15-16
DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2017 Understanding Animal Communication: Lessons from Studying Bonobo Gestures. Save the Elephants Society lecture series (Apr 13)
2016 St Leonard’s College Lecture Prize, Lecture series (Apr 13, 20, 27)
2016 Intentional Meaning of Bonobo Gestures. Behavioural Discussion Group (Feb 29)
2015 Comparison of Gestural Communication for Pan species. IBANS, Early career researcher symposium (Oct 2)
2015 Psycholoquia, 3rd year PhD presentation (Oct 1)
2015 International Summer School of Scotland (ISSOS) Guest Speaker (July 13)
2014 Psycholoquia, 2nd year PhD presentation (Sept 18)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of York
Lecturing, Second year undergraduate (May 2019)
Tutorials, Third year undergraduate (October 2017)
University of St Andrews
Sutton Trust Summer School, Secondary school students (July 2016)Lecturing and Practicals, Second year undergraduate (April 2016)
TA for Psychology 1, Second year undergraduate (Autumn 2014)
Quest University Canada
TA for French 1 & 2, undergraduate (2010-2011)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2019 Postdoctoral fieldwork. Macaca Nigra Project, Indonesia (Jan-Mar 2019)
2018 Postdoctoral fieldwork. Macaca Nigra Project, Indonesia (Mar-Oct 2018)
2018 Child research for rating experiment (July-Oct 2018)
DEPARTMENTAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2016 Maintained website for ESPP16 Conference (Aug 10-13)
2015 Coordinator of Bioacoustics Journal Club (2015-16)
2014 Coordinator of Bioacoustics Journal Club (2014-15)
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
2020 “5-Minute science” video, by Pint of Science and Huawei (Youtube, Aug 23)
2020 Girls Got STEAM (Instagram: @girlsgotsteam) video interview, Aug 5
2020 York Festival of Ideas, Discovery Zone. Online activity (Online, June 8-20)
RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
R Statistics, Windows Excel, FileMaker Pro, the Observer, CyberTracker
St John Ambulance Standard First AID (CPR C and AED)
SDI Open Water Dive Certification
ACMG Climbing Gym Instructor Level 1
LANGUAGES
English - First language
French - Fluent
Lingala - Fluent
Spanish - Intermediate
German - Conversational
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2018 Primate Society of Great Britain (2018-)
2016 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (2016-present)
2015 International Primatological Society (2015-present)
2013 Scottish Primate Research Group (2013-present)
2016 Research Assistant. University of St Andrews & Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute (Dec 2016-July 2017)
2016 Camp Manager, Kalinzu Research Station, Primate Research Institute (Sept-Dec)
PUBLICATIONS
Graham, K. E., Wilke, C. P., Lahiff, N. J., & Slocombe, K. E. (I2019). Scratching Beneath the Surface: Intentionality in Great Ape Signal production. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375.
Graham, K. E., & Hobaiter, C. (2019). Gestural Communication in the Great Apes. In J. C. Choe (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (Second edi, pp. 371–377).
Graham, K. E., Hobaiter, C., Ounsley, J., Furuichi, T., & Byrne, R. W. (2018). Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning. PLoS biology, 16(2), e2004825.
Graham, K.E., Furuichi, T., & Byrne, R. (2017). The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system. Animal Cognition. 20(2), 171-177. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-016-1035-9
Tokuyama, N., Moore, D.L., Graham, K.E., Lokasola, A., & Furuichi T. (2016). Cases of maternal cannibalism in wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) from two different field sites, Wamba and Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Primates. [published online]
Barceló-Coblijn, L., Cuthbertson, C.M., Graham, K.E., Hartmann, S., and Pleyer, M. (2016). Conference report on Evolang 11. Journal of Language Evolution, 1(2), 159-162
Graham, K. E., Bulloch, M. J., & Lewis, T. R. (2013). Foraging behaviour of three primate species in a Costa Rican coastal lowland tropical wet forest. Biodiversity Journal, 4(2), 327–334.
Lewis, T. R., Griffin, R. K., Grant, P. B. C., Figueroa, A., Ray, J. M., Graham, K. E., & David, G. (2013). Morphology and ecology of Sibon snakes (Squamata: Dipsadidae) from two forests in Central America. Phyllomedusa, 12(1), 47–55.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2019 Public Engagement Masterclass, 50% Bursary, Wellcome Genome Campus Scientific Conferences2017 Gorilla Awards in Behavioural Science, Shortlisted, Gorilla.sc
2016 Russell Trust Award (Postgraduate), University of St Andrews
2016 Grindley Grant for Conference Attendance. Experimental Psychology Society
2014 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Used at University of St Andrews (2014-15)
2013 600th Anniversary Doctoral Scholarship. University of St Andrews (2013-16)
2012 Distinction for Keystone Paper. Quest University Canada
2009 Outstanding Student of the Year. Quest University Canada (2009-10)
2008 David Strangway Award for Excellence, Full Tuition Scholarship. Quest University Canada (2008-12)
INVITED TALKS
2020 Meaning & Context in great ape gestures. ISLE, Zurich, Switzerland (Aug 28)
2019 From deducing meanings to understanding meanings in great ape gestures. Animal Communication Workshop. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (Dec 12)
2019 Bonobos: Our endangered cousins. University of St Andrews, UK (Nov 15)
2019 Semantics in ape gestures: A Gricean approach to intentionality and meaning of bonobo gestures. “Animal Linguistics, take the leap!” Workshop. Paris, France (Jun 18)
2019 How do non-human primates communicate? BKSDA, Indonesia (Feb 25)
2018 How do non-human primates communicate? BKSDA, Indonesia (Aug 21)
2018 How do non-human primates communicate? IPB, Indonesia (Mar 15)
2017 “Jane”, Introductory talk to film screening of “Jane”, Derby QUAD (Dec 5)
2017 How can we discover what great ape gestures mean. Graduate Women Scotland, research presentations day, Dundee, UK (Apr 29)2017 How can we discover what great ape gestures mean. The 7th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto, Japan (Mar 4) 2016 How do chimpanzees and bonobos communicate? Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda (Nov 22)
2015 Communication gestuelle des bonobos sauvages. Kinshasa University, DRC (Jan 14)
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Papers Presented
2019 The Great Ape Dictionary. EFP/PSGB. Oxford, UK (Sept 8-11)
2019 What's in a look? LCICD. Lancaster, UK (Aug 21-23)
2019 A Gricean approach to intentionality and meaning of bonobo gestures. SPRG Annual Meeting – the Burn, Scotland (May 10-12)
2018 Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures share similar meanings. Biotweeps Twitter Conference (Jun 21-22)
2016 Meaning in the shared gestural repertoires of wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Budongo, Uganda. IPS/ASP, Chicago (Aug 21-27)
2016 Intentional Meaning of Bonobo Gestures. Evolang, New Orleans (Mar 21-24)
2016 Meaning in wild bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestural communication. SPRG Annual Meeting - the Burn, Scotland (Mar 4-6)
2015 Comparison of Gestural Communication for Pan species. ASAB Summer Conference 2015, Lincoln (Aug 26-27)
Posters Presented
2019 Bonobo & chimpanzee gestures share many of the same meanings. Uni of York Science Research Staff Conference (Jun 26)
2019 Bonobo & chimpanzee gestures share many of the same meanings. Poster+Flash talk. ASAB Easter Conference 2019, York (Apr 3-5)
2017 Finding meaning in the gestural communication of wild bonobos. 61st Primates Conference, Japan Monkey Center (Jan 28-29)
2016 Expressed and understood gestural repertoires of wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). Chimps in Context, Chicago (Aug 18-20)
Workshops
2019 Public Engagement Masterclass, Cambridge, July 8-10
2019 Atlas of Comparative Cognition, Zurich, Mar 6
2018 Multimodal Communication, York, Oct 15-16
DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2017 Understanding Animal Communication: Lessons from Studying Bonobo Gestures. Save the Elephants Society lecture series (Apr 13)
2016 St Leonard’s College Lecture Prize, Lecture series (Apr 13, 20, 27)
2016 Intentional Meaning of Bonobo Gestures. Behavioural Discussion Group (Feb 29)
2015 Comparison of Gestural Communication for Pan species. IBANS, Early career researcher symposium (Oct 2)
2015 Psycholoquia, 3rd year PhD presentation (Oct 1)
2015 International Summer School of Scotland (ISSOS) Guest Speaker (July 13)
2014 Psycholoquia, 2nd year PhD presentation (Sept 18)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of York
Lecturing, Second year undergraduate (May 2019)
Tutorials, Third year undergraduate (October 2017)
University of St Andrews
Sutton Trust Summer School, Secondary school students (July 2016)Lecturing and Practicals, Second year undergraduate (April 2016)
TA for Psychology 1, Second year undergraduate (Autumn 2014)
Quest University Canada
TA for French 1 & 2, undergraduate (2010-2011)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2019 Postdoctoral fieldwork. Macaca Nigra Project, Indonesia (Jan-Mar 2019)
2018 Postdoctoral fieldwork. Macaca Nigra Project, Indonesia (Mar-Oct 2018)
2018 Child research for rating experiment (July-Oct 2018)
2017 Research assistant for Catherine Hobaiter, Misato Hayashi, Prof Matsuzawa, for Bossou video footage. Primate Research Institute, Japan (Dec 2016-Mar 2017)
2016 Russell Trust funded fieldwork. Kalinzu, Uganda (Sept-Dec)
2015 PhD fieldwork. Wamba, DRC (Jan-Jun)
2014 PhD fieldwork. Wamba, DRC (Feb-Jun)
2012 Field Assistant for Paul Kuchenbuch and Simone Pika (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology). Wamba, DRC (Sept 2012-Mar 2013)
2011 Primate Research. Caño Palma Biological Station, Costa Rica (Apr-May)
2011 Herpetological Research Assistant for Alex Figueroa (University of New Orleans) and Dr Todd Lewis. Caño Palma Biological Station, Costa Rica (Apr-May)
2010 Volunteer Research Assistant for April Stevens (McMaster University). Caño Palma Biological Station, Costa Rica (Sept-Nov)
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2020 ASAB Communications Officer (2020-2025)
2020 Reviewed articles for PeerJ, Scientific Reports, Proceedings B, Folia Primatologica,
2019 Founding member of Atlas of Comparative Cognition
2019 Session chair for European Federation for Primatology/Primate Society of Great Britain conference, Oxford, UK (Sept 8-11)
2019 Reviewed articles for Journal of Language Evolution, Animal Cognition, International Journal of Primatology, Gesture, and Biology Letters
2019 Reviewed book proposal for Springer Japan
2018 Reviewed articles for Frontiers in Psychology, and Gesture
2018 Reviewed grants for NSF and Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
2017 Review for Animal Cognition, International Journal of Primatology, Ethology
2016 Review for Interaction Studies journal
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2020 ASAB Communications Officer (2020-2025)
2020 Reviewed articles for PeerJ, Scientific Reports, Proceedings B, Folia Primatologica,
2019 Founding member of Atlas of Comparative Cognition
2019 Session chair for European Federation for Primatology/Primate Society of Great Britain conference, Oxford, UK (Sept 8-11)
2019 Reviewed articles for Journal of Language Evolution, Animal Cognition, International Journal of Primatology, Gesture, and Biology Letters
2019 Reviewed book proposal for Springer Japan
2018 Reviewed articles for Frontiers in Psychology, and Gesture
2018 Reviewed grants for NSF and Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
2017 Review for Animal Cognition, International Journal of Primatology, Ethology
2016 Review for Interaction Studies journal
DEPARTMENTAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2016 Maintained website for ESPP16 Conference (Aug 10-13)
2015 Coordinator of Bioacoustics Journal Club (2015-16)
2014 Coordinator of Bioacoustics Journal Club (2014-15)
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
2020 “5-Minute science” video, by Pint of Science and Huawei (Youtube, Aug 23)
2020 Girls Got STEAM (Instagram: @girlsgotsteam) video interview, Aug 5
2020 York Festival of Ideas, Discovery Zone. Online activity (Online, June 8-20)
2020 I’m a Scientist, Stay at home. Chat with students (Online, Apr 20-July 17)
2020 Psych!York/YorNight. Science festival for families (York, Feb 8)
2019 Sixth Form Conference at York Psychology. Short talk (York, Jun 24)
2019 Soapbox Science. Taking science to the streets (York, Jun 8)
2019 Psych!York. Science festival for school children (York, May 30)
2019 Pint of Science. Public lecture in a pub (York, May 21)
2019 Skype a Scientist. Skype with a class in French (May 2)
2018 Skype a Scientist. Skype with 3 classes of school students (Nov)
2018 Elementary school video exchange about primate research (May-June)
2017 Biotweeps Host. Curate the Biotweeps Twitter account (Jul 24-30)
2017 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, volunteer (London, Jul 4-9)
2019 Sixth Form Conference at York Psychology. Short talk (York, Jun 24)
2019 Soapbox Science. Taking science to the streets (York, Jun 8)
2019 Psych!York. Science festival for school children (York, May 30)
2019 Pint of Science. Public lecture in a pub (York, May 21)
2019 Skype a Scientist. Skype with a class in French (May 2)
2018 Skype a Scientist. Skype with 3 classes of school students (Nov)
2018 Elementary school video exchange about primate research (May-June)
2017 Biotweeps Host. Curate the Biotweeps Twitter account (Jul 24-30)
2017 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, volunteer (London, Jul 4-9)
2017 Skype a Scientist. Skype with school students to talk about research (May 19)
2017 Performer. Bright Club, academic stand-up comedy (Edinburgh, May 2)
2015 Performer. Bright Club, academic stand-up comedy (St Andrews, Dec 8)
2014 Performer. Bright Club, academic stand-up comedy (St Andrews, Oct 30; Dundee, Nov 11; Edinburgh, Nov 25)
2014 Public lectures in Campbell River and Quadra
RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
R Statistics, Windows Excel, FileMaker Pro, the Observer, CyberTracker
St John Ambulance Standard First AID (CPR C and AED)
SDI Open Water Dive Certification
ACMG Climbing Gym Instructor Level 1
LANGUAGES
English - First language
French - Fluent
Lingala - Fluent
Spanish - Intermediate
German - Conversational
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2018 Primate Society of Great Britain (2018-)
2016 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (2016-present)
2015 International Primatological Society (2015-present)
2013 Scottish Primate Research Group (2013-present)