Dr Victoria Herridge
School of Biosciences
Senior Lecturer
Full contact details
School of Biosciences
Alfred Denny Building
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
- Research interests
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My research addresses big evolutionary and environmental questions using a broad range of lab and field methods, all underpinned by the rich fossil record from the Quaternary Period (aka “The Ice Age”). I am an expert on fossil elephants, particularly those species which lived in Europe during the Ice Age: mammoths and straight-tusked elephants.
- Teaching activities
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I am Programme Director of the MSc Science Communication, and module co-ordinator for BIS421 Science Communication Skills & BIS409 Science Communication Project. I also take on L4 and MSc project students.
- Professional activities and memberships
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I’m the co-founder of TrowelBlazers (trowelblazers.com), an organisation dedicated to telling the stories of pioneering women in palaeontology, geology and archaeology, and addressing gender disparity in these fields today.
I am the co-founder and joint Editor-in-Chief of the first #openaccess scientific journal for the Quaternary Sciences: Open Quaternary.
I also make TV, Radio and Podcasts, including BBC Radio 4’s Hoax, the award-winning Wild Crimes, Our Broken Planet, Ice Age: Return of the Mammoth? (Channel 4/Science Channel), Woolly Mammoth The Autopsy (Channel 4/Smithsonian), T. rex Autopsy (National Geographic), Hannibal’s Elephant Army (Channel 4/PBS), as well as the series Bone Detectives, Britain at Low Tide, and Walking Through Time for Channel 4.