Dr Sebastian McBride
PhD, BSc
Lecturer in Biological Science
Contact Details
- Email: sdm@aber.ac.uk
- 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
- BR13320 - Applied Animal Biology
- BR27120 - Veterinary Health
- BRM6220 - Understanding Equine Action: from Anatomy to Behaviour
- RD11210 - Animal Science
- RD27120 - Veterinary Health
- BR35120 - Behaviour and Welfare of Domesticated Animals
- BR34920 - Animal Behaviour Field Course
Moderator
Lecturer
- BR26820 - Vertebrate Organisms
- RD27120 - Veterinary Health
- BR13320 - Applied Animal Biology
- BR27120 - Veterinary Health
- RD11210 - Animal Science
- RD20320 - Equitation
- BR34920 - Animal Behaviour Field Course
- BR35120 - Behaviour and Welfare of Domesticated Animals
- BRM6220 - Understanding Equine Action: from Anatomy to Behaviour
Coordinator
- BR35120 - Behaviour and Welfare of Domesticated Animals
- BR13320 - Applied Animal Biology
- RD27120 - Veterinary Health
- BRM6220 - Understanding Equine Action: from Anatomy to Behaviour
- BR27120 - Veterinary Health
- RD11210 - Animal Science
- BR34920 - Animal Behaviour Field Course
Grader
Attendance Dept Admin
Additional Lecturer
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.