Rate My Professor Anastasia Shavrova

Dr Shavrova’s research specializations include sexual selection and evolution, animal behaviour, and behavioural ecology. Beyond her academic appointments at UNSW and prior studies at Queen’s University, she is active as a science communicator, producing and hosting the podcast Convos with Chordates, writing blogs on academic success, and appearing on radio programs and at festivals including Splendour in the Grass, the Sydney Comedy Festival, and the World Science Festival. She has received awards such as the Ecology and Evolution Research Centre Award for Outstanding Student Service, runner-up in the Ecology and Evolution Research Centre Award for Student Outreach, and placements in 3 Minute Thesis competitions at school, provincial, and university levels, along with the Queen’s University Graduate Award and the Wes and Dorletta Curran Award. A 2024 publication includes the paper 'Using Rhodamine to Tag Mites for Studies of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection' in Ecology and Evolution.