Joshua Silberstein Bamford

About

Dr Joshua S. Bamford grew up in Perth, surrounded by a variety of birds, fish, reptiles, two dogs and his biologist parents. He graduated with First-class Honours in Musicology and Psychology from the University of Western Australia, and then completed a Masters in Music, Mind and Technology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. This was followed by an internship at the Cognitive Biology department in the University of Vienna, Austria. He recently completed his DPhil at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford. Both his travels and research have fundamentally been motivated by a desire to understand how music and dance have evolved as human behaviours. While studying, he has also held numerous odd jobs as an opera singer, circus skills instructor, arts manager, tutor, research assistant, and science communicator. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. If he had spare time, he would be out swing dancing.