Fiona Jordan
Professor Of Anthropology at University of Bristol
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFiona Jordan is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bristol with over a decade of academic experience studying cultural evolution, language, and cognition. Her research blends evolutionary and linguistic anthropology to explain cross-cultural variation in social behaviours and categories, with a long-standing focus on marriage and kinship systems. She has worked across leading research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and UCL, and has held senior academic leadership roles such as School Research Director. Recently she has expanded her fieldwork to human–plant relationships, exploring how botanical knowledge and uses coevolve with language and culture in Austronesian-speaking communities. Based in Bristol and originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, she brings a distinctive Pacific regional expertise that informs comparative global perspectives. Students and collaborators benefit from her interdisciplinary approach that bridges theoretical models, fieldwork, and linguistic evidence.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), BA, Anthropology, Biology, Psychology, BSc(Hons), BA, Anthropology, Biology, Psychology at University of AucklandPhD, Biological Anthropology, PhD, Biological Anthropology at University College London, U. of London
Github Skills (20)
meta-analysis8
traits8
hierarchical8
prefix7
quantitative7
spring6
datasets6
textbook6
data-repository6
reconciliation5
latent-dirichlet-allocation4
dataframes4
data-management4
database4
digital-humanities3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fionajordan/planets
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
fionajordan/qmss-2017
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
quantitative-methodsspringquantitative
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