Meet Rachel Harrison, a primatologist focusing on behavioural flexibility, innovation and social learning!
Rachel is finishing a Ph.D. on behavioural flexibility, innovation and social learning in chimpanzees and human children, at the University of St Andrews, where she also completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and an MSc in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology. For her Ph.D. research, she worked with chimpanzees at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland and the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. She is currently working at the University of Birmingham, on a project examining the impact of educational television programmes on children’s problem-solving skills.