Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith serves as Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University's Faculty of Science and Engineering, conducting globally recognized research in behavioural ecology and primate sensory systems. His fieldwork spans Indonesia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Greece, and the Philippines with species ranging from primates to sea turtles.

His academic credentials include:

• University Teaching Fellowship (Anglia Ruskin University)
• PG Cert Learning and Teaching (HE) (Anglia Ruskin University)
• PhD in Primate Ecology (University of Reading)
• BSc (Hons) Psychology & Zoology (University of Reading)

Smith's research integrates colour vision polymorphism in New World monkeys, resource partitioning in coral reef fish, and welfare assessment of captive species. He examines how perceptual capabilities influence ecological interactions across taxa, with particular focus on trichromacy evolution and exudativory in primates. His Conservation Working Party involvement with the Primate Society of Great Britain informs habitat management strategies for endangered species.

His publication trends reveal consistent interdisciplinary contributions spanning chemical ecology (scent communication), visual perception (fruit detection), and conservation biology (forest regeneration). The 2022-2003 corpus demonstrates methodological diversity from portable mass spectrometry field analysis to long-term behavioural observation across 14 studies.

Key recognitions include:

• University Teaching Fellowship from Anglia Ruskin University
• Senior Fellow status with the Higher Education Academy

As active supervisor of graduate research on mara behavioural ecology and baboon time budgets, Smith contributes to academic training while serving as journal reviewer for 10+ publications including American Journal of Primatology and Journal of Zoology. His peer-review activities reflect significant standing in primatology and ecological research communities.

Within Anglia Ruskin's Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Smith collaborates on projects investigating animal-environment interactions through field observation and experimental approaches, with particular emphasis on tropical vertebrate communities and anthropogenic impacts.