Miss Ella Ackroyd

Doctoral Teaching Assistant and PhD Student 

In my role as DTA I am working towards a PhD in Biological Sciences, whilst teaching part-time at the university. 

My PhD project is titled ‘The Role of Individual Heterogeneity in Group-Living Fishes’. 

2021 - 2023 | University of Bristol | MSc by Research Biological Sciences

2017 - 2021 | University of St Andrews | BSc (Hons) Biology

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)

Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI)

I am broadly interested in the function and maintenance of groups of animals, using shoaling fishes as model species. These interests include how shoaling fish use visual signals (such as colour) to communicate with each other, how differences in behaviour and state between individuals might affect group-level behaviour, and how the maintenance of fish shoals might be affected by rapid environmental changes.