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Loeske Kruuk Group

Our research aims to understand how natural selection and evolution shape the biological diversity seen in wild animal populations. The work focuses mainly on the the long-term studies of red deer on the Isle of Rum and Soay sheep on the St Kilda islands, both in NW Scotland, but has also involved studies on several other vertebrate populations.

Group Members

• Loeske Kruuk  (head of group)
• Katie Stopher (postdoc, NERC)
• Aly Pavitt (PhD student)
• Clare Andrews (postdoc, with Per Smiseth)
• Emily Moore (PhD student, with Josephine Pemberton)
• Rebecca Callaby (PhD student, with Mark Woolhouse)
• Sarah Mattey (PhD student, with Per Smiseth)
• Christina Coakley (PhD student, with Emma Cunningham)

Field Assistants

• Ali Donald (fieldworker on Rum red deer)
• Martyn Baker (fieldworker on Rum red deer)
• Jill Pilkington (fieldworker on St Kilda Soay sheep)

Previous Members

• Adam Hayward
• Craig Walling
• Peter Korsten
• Michelle Clements
• Arild Husby
• Jeff Lane
• Jarrod Hadfield
• Renee Duckworth
• Kathi Foerster
• Tom Reed
• Matt Robinson
• Alastair Wilson
• Dan Nussey