Profile

I am a 30 year old PhD student based at Nottingham Trent University. I live at home with my Mom, sister, two dogs and a cat. Because life shouldn’t be about all work and no play I make sure I have a nice and varied social life and I cram my spare time full! I am a runner (progressing into longer distances – I have my first marathon this weekend!) and an open water swimmer (if you have never tried it, then do, it is really cool and there are loads of fantastic clubs around the country that enable you to swim safely!). Nothing beats running along country trails or diving into a nice lake in the middle of summer. At the moment, other than elephants, the thing that is occupying most of my time is a new parkrun – a team of friends and I were lucky enough to set up a parkrun over Cannock Chase (a gorgeous forested area in the Midlands).

If you do want to read a bit more about me then I have a blog which can be accessed here: https://animalbehaviourresearch.wordpress.com/. Unfortunately I don’t get chance to update it as frequently as I would like but it does come with lots of nice elephant pictures!

You can also find out more about me in the Animal Behaviour Zone of I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! from March 2017: https://animalm17.iasuk.ddev.site/profile/ellenwilliams/

I have just started the third year of my PhD which is basically a big research project looking at how elephants interact with eachother – whether they have a favourite elephant , and if they do how they choose them 🙂