About the speaker

Rebecca Lawn is a PhD student at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit and the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol. She gained a first class honours degree from Newcastle University where she was awarded the Mary Mackinnon prize for graduating with the highest mark in Psychology. Her current research interests include investigating causal relationships in evolutionary theories of development and behaviour using data from The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. She has been visiting the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Centre for Fertility and Health for the last months.