Dr Sebastian McBride
PhD, BSc
Senior Lecturer in Biological Science
Contact Details
- Email: sdm@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-5120-0115
- Office: 1.22
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621633
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
All undergraduate and postgraduate appointments can be made via my appointment calendar accessible here.
Dr Sebastian McBride is a Liverpool (BSc.) and Edinburgh (PhD.) graduate who first took up a lectureship position at Aberystwyth in 1996 in what was the Institute of Rural Sciences. He left the Institute in 2005 to extend his research interests in cognitive robotics in the Department of Computer Science (Aberystwyth) and then cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He has returned to Aberystwyth University in 2016 to take up an appointment as lecturer in Biosciences.
Additional Information
All undergraduate and postgraduate appointments can be made via my appointment calendar accessible here.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- BR35120 - Behaviour and Welfare of Domesticated Animals
- BRM6220 - Understanding Equine Action: from Anatomy to Behaviour
- BR34920 - Animal Behaviour Field Course
Coordinator
- BR34920 - Animal Behaviour Field Course
- BR35120 - Behaviour and Welfare of Domesticated Animals
- BRM6220 - Understanding Equine Action: from Anatomy to Behaviour
Lecturer
- BR16920 - Domestic Animal Anatomy and Physiology
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
- BR16720 - Comparative Animal Physiology
- BR30220 - Advanced Animal Behaviour
Tutor
- BRM1620 - Infection and Immunity
- BR26820 - Vertebrate Zoology
- VE10430 - Animal Husbandry
- BR27520 - Research Methods
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
- BR36440 - Research Project
Grader
Moderator
Research
Dr Sebastian McBride is involved in a number of research projects based around cognition and the neurophysiological control of behaviour. In particular, he is currently working on: animal cognition markers of human neurodegenerative disease, neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning repetitive behavioural disorders and cognitive enrichment in farm and captive animal species.