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DoctorSarah Flanagan

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

School of Biological Sciences

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  • Senior Lecturer Above the Bar
    School of Biological Sciences
  • +6433690433 (Work)
  • Julius von Haast 237

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

I am passionate about sharing my passion for biology with students, teaching skills that will be useful in a wide range of careers, and exciting students about a variety of topics through student-centred teaching approaches. I have taught into a range of courses in Biology including Evolution, Conservation Genetics, and Biological Data Analysis. I am currently a Distributed Leadership in Teaching Programme Scholar, which means that I am working closely with UC's teacing and learning experts to re-shape the Biological Data Analysis course to better support student learning by increasing engagement and reducing course-related anxiety.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolution (University of Canterbury)
    16 Feb 2026 - 21 Jun 2026
    BIOL271-26S1
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolutionary Ecology (University of Canterbury)
    16 Feb 2026 - 21 Jun 2026
    BIOL371-26S1
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Where to live: habitat selection and intra-seasonal movements of kororā
    1 Mar 2024 - 31 Mar 2025
    Gwatkin, Georgia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Estimating how tree size distributions in tropical forests change over time
    19 Feb 2024 - 15 Nov 2024
    Shannon, Sophie
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolutionary Ecology (University of Canterbury)
    19 Feb 2024 - 23 Jun 2024
    BIOL371-24S1
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the effect of different operational sex ratios on pipefish (Stigmatopora nigra) mating behaviour
    12 Feb 2024 - 1 Apr 2025
    Bartels, Xaver
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Twenty-three years of occurrence and habitat use of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Southern Group of the Cook Islands, South Pacific
    1 Dec 2023 - 31 May 2026
    Hauser, Anne
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Comparative parentage analysis in two populations of pipefish
    13 Nov 2023 - 9 Feb 2024
    Landon, Myles
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Extracting DNA from penguin ticks: learning about penguins, ticks, and diseases
    13 Nov 2023 - 9 Feb 2024
    Peoples, Ella
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Protecting New Zealand food crops in the molecular arms race against Phytophthora cinnamomi by understanding its pathogenicity
    1 May 2023
    Cox, Alexandra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Taxonomic and systematic revision of the South Pacific pipefish genus Stigmatopora
    1 May 2023
    Lee, Jaehwan
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Bioinformatics (University of Canterbury)
    20 Feb 2023 - 25 Jun 2023
    BIOL337-23S1
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Monitoring the behaviours of endangered humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) in Rarotonga, Cook Islands: An assessment of the observational capacity of drones for behavioural data collection
    20 Feb 2023 - 27 Oct 2023
    Fon, Analese
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Quantifying the reproductive ecology and immune-related gill gene regulation in Stigmatopora macropterygia
    1 Jun 2022 - 28 Aug 2023
    O'Neill, Ruby
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Insight Into the Effectomes of Aotearoa Phytophthora Cinnamomi Isolates by Comparative Genomics.
    28 Mar 2022 - 30 Mar 2023
    Cox, Alexandra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An exploration of sex-biased gene expression and courtship behaviour in three congeneric species of pipefish
    1 Nov 2021 - 30 Sep 2025
    Beasley, Emily
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Role of the Novel Female Ornament in the Wide-bodied Pipefish, Stigmatapora nigra
    1 Mar 2021 - 30 Apr 2022
    van Eyndhoven, Fleur
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Deciphering the evolutionary tapestry of sexual dimorphism: From gene expression to sexual selection in pipefish
    1 Nov 2020 - 25 Sep 2024
    Tosto, Nicole
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Community composition of native New Zealand seagrass, Zostera muelleri
    1 Mar 2020 - 30 Apr 2021
    Pullen, Micaela
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Determining effects of temperature and heatwaves on estuarine foundation species and associated animal communities
    1 Mar 2020 - 28 May 2021
    Gerber, Derek
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Environmental DNA as a tool for in-field monitoring of Antarctic vertebrates.
    1 Mar 2020 - 26 Feb 2021
    Howell, Lucy
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Biological Data Analysis
    17 Feb 2020
    BIOL209
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Ecological and Evolutionary Models
    1 Jan 2020
    BIOL336
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Genomics
    8 Jul 2019 - 25 Aug 2023
    BIOL459
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolutionary Ecology
    25 Feb 2019 - 2 Jun 2023
    BIOL371