Heidi Colleran

Heidi Colleran is an interdisciplinary anthropologist with broad training in the humanities and social sciences. She earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Trinity College Dublin before completing master’s degrees in human evolution and behaviour and anthropology at UCL, as well as a certificate in psychology from London Metropolitan University. She went on to complete her PhD in evolutionary anthropology at UCL. Colleran is now based at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, where she leads the BirthRites Independent Research Group, hosted by the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture.