Rochford, Nicola - University of New England - School of Rural Medicine Staff

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Nikki worked as a Physiotherapist in the UK, USA and Somalia before moving into an academic post in 1989. She taught at Brunel and Keele Universities in the UK prior to her recent move to Armidale. Nikki's main academic foci have been promoting inter-disciplinary learning and teaching and developing QA enhancement tools in health education. As a member of the Quality Assurance Agency Nikki was responsible for reviewing the Quality of Learning and Teaching of Tertiary Health Education throughout the UK and making recommendations for improvement. Nikki has written and delivered PBL courses for over 20 years and is now a PBL tutor in the School of Rural Medicine. Certificate IV TAE10 MSc Res Meth PGCHE LPT PGDip Biomech PGDip Phys Dip Phys

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My research interests lie in the field of behavioral ecology and, more specifically, mammalian social behavior and social organization, in which I adopt a field-oriented approach to my research. For many years, I have examined the role that ecological conditions (e.g., food resources) play in shaping the behavior patterns of animals and, in turn, a population's spatial organization. In 1998, I began working with woodchucks, animals whose relatives are much more social than they are. Little research has been done on these animals since the 1960s and late 1980s, so a great deal remains to be learned. I am interested in the evolution of social behavior in mammals, and these animals can be used to test various ideas about why other marmot species are more social.