I started my PhD at The University of Edinburgh in 2022. I completed my Masters degree in the Evolution of Language and Cognition at The University of Edinburgh in 2021. I studied for my undergraduate degree in Linguistics and English Language at The University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2020.
Hallam, M., Jordan, F.M., Kirby, S., and Smith, K. (2024) Systemic structure of kinship is shaped by evolutionary processes. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
'Variation in the kin term lexicon is not predicted by population structure' at the Cultural Evolution Society Conference (2024)
'Systemic structure of kinship is shaped by evolutionary processes' at The International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG XV) (2024)
'Two Families, both alike in terminology: Using artificial language learning to understand the cognitive origins of cross-cultural patterns in kinship structure' for Harvard Women in Psychology's Trends in Psychology at Harvard University (2020).
'Why do you have two grandmothers but only one mother? Using artificial language learning to investigate co-lexification in kinship systems' for the Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference at University of Edinburgh (2020).
I am currently a tutor for Online Experiments for Language Scientists, an Honours-level course in experimental design and implementation in jsPsych, and Origins and Evolution of Language, an Honours-level course on core research issues in evolutionary linguistics.