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Priscilla McAllum

Name: Priscilla McAllum

Your role in AWIS: Committee member

Family: Partner Wiremu, three wild kids

Academic Background:

BSc (Hons) Zoology, University of Canterbury; PhD, University of Waikato;

Current job title: Postdoctoral fellow

Organisation: Massey University

Area of science: Conservation biology/ physiological ecology

How you got here: It has been a long, long career path that I am still trudging down, with twists and turns, three children, and a passion for the outdoors. Meanwhile, I am also hoping to win lotto and set up my own independent lab.

Extra-curricular activities: Cycling, laughing a lot and/or going crazy, finding the eggs my chickens have laid somewhere random at our place

Favourite book: The Hobbit, Light Fell, War and Peace

Favourite movies: Love Actually, French foreign films