Maternity leave Dec 2014 - Sept 2015 October 2013 - 2019 research fellow (funded by NERC & Society in Science) 2010 - 2013 Postdoctoral research associate of Nick Davies (Cambridge) 2006 - 2010 PhD, supervised by Rebecca Kilner (Cambridge) 2004 - 2006 Research assistant of John Ewen (Institute of Zoology, London) 2002 - 2004 MSc by research thesis (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 1998 - 2002 BA/BSc conjoint degree (Anthropology, Art History, Biology, and Psychology), University of Auckland, New Zealand.

My research explores how information use by individuals shapes the evolution of species and communities. In the past I have focused on the role of visual and vocal signals for information exchange within families, and how these channels of information might be manipulated. I am now exploring how exploitation of information and variation in information availability influences coevolution of brood parasites and their hosts, and predators and their prey. See our research website www.informedbirds.com for more on my group's work.

Thorogood, R. and Davies, N.B. (2016) Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive, Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 19872. 10.1038/srep19872 Thorogood, R. and Davies, N.B. (2013) Reed warbler hosts fine-tune their defences to match three decades of cuckoo decline, Evolution 67, 3545-3555. 10.1111/evo.12213 Thorogood, R. and Davies, N.B. (2012) Cuckoos combat socially transmitted defences of reed warbler hosts with a plumage polymorphism, Science 337, 578-580. 10.1126/science.1220759 Thorogood, R., Ewen, J.G., Kilner, R.M. (2011) Sense and sensitivity: responsiveness to offspring signals varies with the parents’ potential to breed again, Proc R Soc B. 278, 2638-2645. 10.1098/rspb.2010.2594 Ewen, J.G., Thorogood, R., Armstrong, D.P. (2011) Demographic consequences of adult sex ratio in a reintroduced hihi population, J Anim Ecol. 80, 448-455. 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01774.x Ewen, J.G., Thorogood, R., Brekke, P., Cassey, P., Karadas, F., Armstrong, D.P. (2009) Maternally invested carotenoids compensate costly ectoparasitism in the hihi, Proc Nat Acad Sci U.S.A. 106, 12798-12802. 10.1073/pnas.0902575106 Thorogood, R., Brunton, D., Castro, I. (2009) Simple techniques for sexing nestling hihi (Notiomystis cincta) in the field, NZ J Zool 36, 115–121. Thorogood, R., Kilner, R. M., Karadas, F., Ewen, J. G. (2008) Spectral mouth colour of nestlings changes with carotenoid availability, Funct Ecol 22, 1044-1051. 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01455.x