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Dr

Pizza Chow

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society

Orcid identifier0000-0002-8208-592X
  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society

BIOGRAPHY

Pizza has a broad research interest, but her main research focus is on the evolution of cognition. Research fields/topics that she is highly interested in include: animal behaviour and cognition, urban wildlife cognition, cognitive ecology, comparative cognition, problem solving, and innovation.

She takes interdisciplinary approach (incorporating psychology such as animal behaviour/animal cognition, ecology such as behavioural ecology, and evolution) to answer her research questions.

Depending on the research question, she works with different animal species that include honeybees and bumblebees, pigeons, various endangered species of parrots (e.g, Great Green Macaws, Blue-throated Macaws). However, her main study models have been in grey squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, and red squirrels, S. vulgaris.

UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER APPOINTMENTS

  • Senior Lecturer
    University of Chester, Division of Psychology, Chester, United Kingdom1 Aug 2024

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Lecturer
    University of Chester, Division of Psychology, Chester, United Kingdom28 Mar 2022

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE INSTITUTE

  • Culture and Society Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute
  • Sustainability and Environment Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute
  • Health and Wellbeing Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute

SCHOOL

  • School of Society