Friederike Hillemann

Academic Visitor, Department of Psychology

I’m a behavioural ecologist studying Foraging Ecology And Social Ties (FEASTs) across diverse Indigenous communities and non-human animal systems. Specifically, I explore how social ties help individuals navigate their environments and buffer environmental risks. I am currently developing methods for cross-cultural analysis of food sharing and production networks.

In my comparative research, I draw on long-term ecological and anthropological datasets that are irreplaceable and culturally embedded, and require careful stewardship. I develop transparent, reproducible workflows guided by the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, centring collective benefit, authority, responsibility, and ethics. Where data are sensitive, I use generative modelling to create synthetic datasets that can be shared alongside analyses, enabling others to inspect, reproduce, and build on my work.

Read more about Friederike and her work here.