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Brenda de Groot

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Brenda de Groot

Graduate Student

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Primate communication and affect; infant interaction; conversation analysis; animal ethnography; philosophy of science; philosophy of animal minds; animal ethics; animal studies; the moral standing of animals; speciesism; conservation; multispecies justice; Asian colobines; Japanese primatology; illustration.

Publications

De Groot, B., & Nekaris, K.A.I. (2016). Ecology of the Germain’s Langur (Trachypithecus germaini) in a pre-release environment, and the implications for its conservation. Asian Primates Journal, 6(1), 2-14.
De Groot, B., & Cheyne, S.M. (2016). Does mirror-enrichment improve primate well-being? Animal Welfare, 25(2), 163-170.
de Groot, B., Gorr, N. D., Kret, M. E., Rieffe, C., Tsou, Y. T., & Straffon, L. M. (2023). Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 47, 101228.

Awards & Grants

Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Activity Fund (2024)
UCLA Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Fellowship (2024)
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (2023-2024)
Dr Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds (2023-2024)
Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (2015)
Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (2014)
PSGB Conservation Grant Award (2014)
Born Free Foundation Small Grant (2014)

Conference Presentations

De Groot, B. (2023, July 20). Theory of Sentience: A concept for ascribing sentience to other beings. Diverse Intelligences Summit 2023, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Groot, B. (2022, August 1). Animal ethnography: A cross-disciplinary approach for understanding animals [Flash talk]. Diverse Intelligences Summit 2022, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Degrees

MSc Primate Conservation (cum laude), Oxford Brookes University
BSc Psychology (cum laude), University of Amsterdam

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