Professor Gillian Forrester, Professor of Comparative Cognition, University of Sussex
Gillian undertook her Daphne Jackson Fellowship between 2004 and 2007 at the University of Sussex. Her fellowship, Multimodal Communication in Western Lowland Gorillas was sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
Reflecting on her Fellowship and subsequent career, Gillian says:
I have enjoyed the opportunities that the Daphne Jackson Trust has afforded me. I would not be in academia now if I had not learnt about the Trust. The fellowship was so flexible that I had a second child during my 3-year postdoc without needing to take an additional break.
“I have been promoted to Professor of Comparative Cognition – something I wouldn’t have dreamt of without my Daphne Jackson Fellowship. Returning to research has been a long and sometimes bumpy journey, but gaining this recognition makes me even more determined to keep pushing ahead”.