Colin Groves

Education and Employment

 

At Wanariset, Borneo, June 2001

Born London, June 24th , 1942

B.Sc. University College, London, 1963

Ph.D. Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London University, 1966

My mentor and supervisor was John Napier.

Other strong influences on my early career were:

Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine: Ruth Bowden, Peter Davis

St Thomas's Hospital School of Medicine: Michael Day

University College London: Nigel Barnicot, Cliff Jolly

Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, later at Natural History Museum: Prue Napier

Birmingham University Medical School: Eric Ashton, Charles Oxnard

British Museum (Natural History), now Natural History Museum: Peter Crowcroft, Gordon Corbet, John Edwards Hill

Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley:

Assistant Professor, 1966-1968

Smithsonian Institution Program in Primate Biology (Washington and London):

1968-1969

Reader's Digest Special Books, London:

Researcher, 1969-1970

Duckworth Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Cambridge University:

Demonstrator, 1970-1973

Australian National University, Canberra:

Lecturer, 1974-1979

Senior Lecturer, 1979-1989

Reader, 1989-2000

Professor, 2000-