Dr Victoria Herridge

School of Biosciences

Senior Lecturer

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v.herridge@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2320
Alfred Denny Building

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Dr Victoria Herridge
School of Biosciences
Alfred Denny Building
Western Bank
葫芦影业
S10 2TN
Research interests

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 鈥淭he Ice Age鈥). 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

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

I鈥檓 the co-founder of TrowelBlazers (), 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 Elephant Army (Channel 4/PBS), as well as the series Bone Detectives, Britain at Low Tide, and Walking Through Time for Channel 4.

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