My interests include the modeling of behaviour in animals and plants in geographically structured populations (for example, sex allocation, offspring dispersal, altruistic behaviour, age at maturity, mortality/fecundity tradeoff) using techniques of inclusive fitness and stability analysis of dynamical systems. Most recently I am thinking about different ways in which cooperation among neighbours can be favoured and conflict between individuals might be resolved. In what might appear at first to be a hopelessly complicated subject, I am continually impressed at the elegance of many of the mathematical results, and at the contribution they can make to our understanding. I am particularly impressed by the conceptual and computational power of W.D. Hamilton's extraordinary construction of inclusive fitness.

Since 1992 I have been an editor of Evolutionary Ecology Research a journal with a friendly readable style that has already attracted a large number of excellent papers along with considerable kudos for its status as a SPARC publication and the courageous leadership of its Editor-in-chief Mike Rosenzweig who has showed us all how to keep journals affordable and on the shelves where they are needed. In January 2002 I joined the editorial board of the American Naturalist.

My research colleague at Queen's is Troy Day, winner of the 2005 Steacie prize, currently holding a Steacie Fellowship, and a specialist in the evolutionary ecology of infectious disease. Last year (2007-08) I was on sabbatical leave, working with the Program in Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard in the Fall and visiting Stu West, Andy Gardiner, Alan Grafen and colleagues in the winter in Edinburgh and Oxford. I am now (Winter 2009) back at Queen's looking forward to interactions with our awesome collection of students, post-docs and faculty who form the Queen's Mathematical Biology Group.