Psychology
Profile
Academic Duties
Postdoctoral research
Background
I have a broad academic background in biology and psychology focusing on primate behaviour, ecology and conservation. In 2002, I was the recipient of a NERC studentship for an MSc in Applied Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia, where I studied the effects of logging and hunting on large mammal populations in Cameroon. For my PhD, I was awarded a Gladstone Fellowship from the University of Liverpool/University of Chester, which investigated life history strategy in immature western gorillas. My research has led me to work with primates in the forests of Africa and Brazil, European zoos and Cameroonian sanctuaries. I am a member of the Primate Society of Great Britain and a committee member for the Captive Care Working Party. In August 2009, I became a research fellow in the Psychology Department researching attachment in chimpanzee and human mother – infant relationships.
Research interests/supervision opportunities
- Attachment in chimpanzee and human mother-infant dyads
- Life history strategy of immature apes
- Strategies of relationship formation across development
- The effects of early social deprivation on behavioural development in gorillas
- Alloparental behaviour
- Play behaviour
Publications
Hutchinson, J.E., Fletcher, A.W. The development of immature social relationships in Gorilla. (In prep)
Hutchinson, J.E., Fletcher, A.W. Evidence for the neural hypothesis of social play behaviour in captive western gorillas. (In prep)
Hutchinson, J.E., Fletcher, A.W. The effects of early social deprivation and living in atypical social groups on immature gorilla behavioural development (In prep).
Hutchinson, J.E., Fletcher, A.W. Comparing the role of alloparenting in apes and monkeys. Primates (Accepted)
Hutchinson, J.E., Fletcher, A.W. Assessing the classification of immature life history stages in Gorilla. Am.J. Primatology (Accepted)
Hutchinson, J.E., Dupain, J., Peres, C.A. The effect of logging and hunting in Central African forests. A quantitative analysis. Animal Conservation (Submitted)
Soutullo, A., E. K. W. Chan, J. Maughan, S. Preuss & J. C. Ruiz-Guajardo. 2003. Distribution of endangered vertebrates in Bañados del Este Biosphere Reserve, Uruguay. Comunicaciones Zoológicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 201:1-12
Maughan, J.E. (2003) Tool use in orangutans. Oryx 37 (2), 3
Maughan, J.E., Stanford, C.B. (2001). Terrestrial Nesting by chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Primate Eye, 75, 28-29