clive finlayson
Director, Heritage Division
research interests
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The Neanderthal Extinction -
Agent-based modelling of Pleistocene hominin populations
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Biogeography of hominins
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Climate and ecological dynamics in the Quaternary and their impact on hominin populations
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Multi-scale spatio-temporal distribution patterns in animals
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Distribution patterns at large spatial scales. Currently researching patterns across Afro-European continental and Mediterranean Atlantic oceanic gradients
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Body size and the composition and structure of communities of vertebrates
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Human Ecology - the integration of the human species within ecological research studies as a way of modelling ecological conservation
academic background
1976 Bachelor of Science (BSc) Special Honours Degree in Zoology (Class I)
The University of Liverpool, UK
1980 Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)
The University of Oxford, UK
1991 Master of Science (MSc) in Museum Studies
The University of Leicester, UK
fellowships, memberships and awards
1976 Liverpool University Biological Society Prize for best student in the academic year
1976 Recipient of the first David Lack Studentship awarded by the British Ornithologists’ Union
1990 Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London
2003 Awarded MBE in H.M. The Queen’s New Year Honours
other related matters
Co-director (with C.B.Stringer, J. Rodriguez Vidal and F.Giles Pacheco) of the Gibraltar Caves Research Project 1991-present
Organiser of Calpe International Conferences in Gibraltar.
Supervised doctoral theses for the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff, Southampton and Anglia (UK)
Doctoral thesis examiner for the University of Córdoba, Rovira I Virgili and Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
Collaborated with Professor Larry Sawchuk of the University of Toronto on anthropological research in Gibraltar 1987-present
Researched and assisted in a number of international television documentaries on ecology and on human evolution, in particular for the BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic Explorer Series, Discovery Channel and Television Española. Most recently with BBC Television in a Horizon documentary on human origins to be screened in February 2005
Researched and presented several Gibraltar Television series on the Heritage of Gibraltar.
Contributed to a number of scientific programmes produced by BBC Radio.
Researched and assisted in the production of two National Geographic Magazine articles, one on Gibraltar and the other on Neanderthals.
Regular writer of popular science and history articles in the Gibraltar press, particularly the Gibraltar Chronicle, as well as for popular historical and science magazines.
Founder and Chairman of the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society 1978-1992
Trustee of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust 1987-1989
