1998 PhD University of Sheffield 1998 - 2002 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK 2003 - 2004 Post doctoral research, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, USA 2004 - 2013 Royal Society University Research Fellow, IEB, University of Edinburgh, UK 2014 - Senior lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK

The evolution and ecology of reproduction: life-history decisions, maternal effects, and how these are influenced by parasitism and disease.

Coakley, CM, Staszewski, V. Herborn, KA, Cunningham EJA (2014) Factors affecting the levels of protection transferred from mother to offspring following immune challenge. Frontiers in Zoology 11, 46. (doi:10.1186/1742-9994-11-46) Staszewski, V, Reece, SE, O’Donell, AJ, Cunningham, EJA (2012) Drug treatment of malaria infections can reduce levels of protection transferred to offspring via maternal immunity. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 279, 2487-2496. ( DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1563) Reed, TE, Daunt, F, Hall, ME, Phillips RA, Wanless, S, Cunningham, EJA (2008) Parasite treatment affects maternal investment in sons. Science 321: 1681-1682. (DOI: 10.1126/science.1159466) Reed, TE, Kruuk, LEB, Wanless, S, Frederiksen, M, Cunningham EJA and Harris MP (2007) Reproductive senescence in a long-lived seabird: rates of decline in late life performance are associated with varying costs of early reproduction. American Naturalist 171, 89-10. (DOI: 10.1086/524957) Kolm, N., Stein, R.W., Mooers, A.?., Cunningham, E.J.A. (2006) Sexual selection can drive female life histories: A comparative study on Galliform birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20, 627-638. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01248.x) Reed, T, Wanless, S, Harris M.P., Frederiksen, M. Kruuk, L.E.B. and Cunningham, E.J.A.(2006) Responding to environmental change: individual plasticity is limited by social constraints.Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 273 (1602), 2713-2719. (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3631) Cunningham, E.J.A. and Russell, A.F. (2001) Sex differences in avian yolk hormone levels. Nature412, 498-499. (DOI: 10.1038/35087655) Cunningham, E.J.A. and Russell, A.F. (2000) Egg investment is influenced by male attractiveness in the mallard. Nature 404, 74-76. Cunningham, E.J.A. and Birkhead, T.R. (1998) Sex roles and sexual selection. Animal Behaviour56, 1311-1321. Cunningham, E.J.A. and Birkhead, T.R. (1997) Female roles in perspective? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12, 337-338.