D.J. (Daniel) Redhead, PhD

Appointments

Assistant Professor (December 2023 - Present)
Department of Sociology
& The Inter-university Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS)
University of Groningen

Guest Researcher (December 2023 - Present)
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Group Leader (October 2020 - November 2023)
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (October 2018 - September 2020)
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Visiting Researcher (January 2017 - January 2018)
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Education

PhD, Psychology (October 2015 - September 2018)
Department of Psychology
University of Essex

Masters by Research (MA), Anthropology (October 2014 - September 2015)
Department of Anthropology
Durham University

BA (Hons), Archaeology and Anthropology (October 2011 - September 2014)
Department of Anthropology
Durham University

Grants & Awards

Leakey Foundation Research Grant (Co-I, PI: Haneul Jang) 2025 – $28,770

Fyssen Research Grant (Co-I, PI: Haneul Jang) 2025 – €70,000

Wenner Gren Foundation Research Grant (Co-I, PI: Haneul Jang) 2024 – $24,700

Human Behavior & Evolution Society Margo Wilson Award (for best research paper) 2024

Evolution & Human Behaviour European Association New Investigator Award 2024

IAST Multidisciplinary Grant (External Collaborator) 2023 – €28,590

NSF (USA) HNDS program (Co-PI) 2022 – $400,000

ESRC Research Methods Development Grant (Co-PI) 2020 – £200,000

Evolution & Human Behaviour European Association Research Award 2017 – €500

Experimental Psychology Society Award for Study Visits 2016 – £2,000

Sir Eric Berthoud Award 2016 – £175

ESSEXLab Seedcorn Grant 2016 – £1,520

University of Essex Departmental Research Scholarship 2016 – ~£45,000

St. Mary’s College Society Travel Award 2012 – £200

Invited Talks

Redhead, D. "Gender, age and the distribution of leadership across societies." Plenary talk at the Comparative Evolutionary Anthropology workshop, University College London, UK, 2024.

Redhead, D. "Social networks, cooperation and social status in rural Colombia." Center for Culture and Evolution Seminar Series, Brunel University, London, UK, 2024.

Redhead, D. "Social networks, cooperation and social status in rural Colombia." Microeconomics Seminar Series, Center for Environmental Economics Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 2024.

Redhead, D. "Social structure and the evolutionary ecology of inequality." Plenary talk at European Human Behavior and Evolution Association, Montpellier, France, 2024.

Redhead, D. "Direct and Indirect Reciprocity in Rural Colombia." The German Primate Center Seminar, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 2023.

Redhead, D. "Direct and Indirect Reciprocity in Rural Colombia." Joint Seminar for the Department of Ecology and Evolution and Data Analytics Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2023.

Redhead, D. "Direct and Indirect Reciprocity in Rural Colombia." Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, Durham University, Durham, UK, 2023.

Redhead, D. "The roles of positive and negative indirect reciprocity in the evolution of cooperation." General Symposium Series, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France, 2022.

Redhead, D. "The Dynamics of Cooperation and Status." Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series, The Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier (CNRS), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 2022.

Redhead, D. "Measuring, managing and modelling network data." Social Networks Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 2022.

Redhead, D. "The Dynamics of Cooperation and Status." Department of Sociology Seminar Series, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 2022.

Redhead, D. "The effects of prestige and dominance on advice and friendship relations: A longitudinal study of collaborative teams." Connected Minds Seminar Series, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022.

Redhead, D. "The dynamics of social hierarchy." The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar Series, University of Linköping, Norrköping, Sweden, 2021.

Redhead, D. "The dynamics of social hierarchy: New insights into the temporal characteristics and social network properties of status differentiation." Amsterdam Leadership Lab Colloquia Series, Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021.

Redhead, D. "The dynamics of friendship and criminal behaviour during middle adolescence." Evolutionary Approaches to Adolescence Preconference, European Human Behavior and Evolution Association, Krakow, Poland, 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic).

Redhead, D. "The Dynamics of Social Hierarchy." Evolutionary Demography Seminar Series, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, 2017.

Redhead, D. "An introduction to cross-sectional and longitudinal social network analysis." Methodological Heroes Seminar Series, Department of Government, University of Essex, Essex, UK, 2017.

Redhead, D. "The dynamics of the dual model of social hierarchy." Social, Personality and Industrial Psychology Seminar Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2017.

In the Media

Katri Saarikiven (August 31, 2023). Pääseekö pärstäkertoimella presidentiksi? YLE. Link to article (Finnish)

Nichola Raihani (October 24, 2022). The big idea: is cooperation always a force for good? The Guardian. Link to article

Hannah Devlin (October 21, 2022). Why being rude to the waiter (or other staff) is the worst strategy. The Guardian. Link to article

Michael Walsh (August 22, 2022). US must learn how to disrupt and subvert Chinese partnership network. The Hill. Link to article

Niclas Stroffregen (June 2021). Krieg und Frieden: Forschungsprojekt untersucht Konflikte unter Männern. Luhze. Link to article (German)

Michael Stang (May 26, 2021). Männernetzwerke bei den bolivianischen Tsimane. Deutschlandfunk. Link to website(German)

Karolin Dörner (May 10, 2021). Gewalt oder Gespräch: Wie lösen Männer Konflikte? MDR. Link to article (German)

Chris Matyszczyk (September 4, 2019). A Truly Disturbing New 8-Year Study Reveals A Brutal Truth About Becoming A Success (You Won't Like This At All). Inc. Link to article

Chrissy Sexton (August 7, 2019). Cooperating with higher status people can elevate one’s own status. Earth.com. Link to article

Ian Randall (August 7, 2019). It really is WHO you know: Spending time with 'high status' people can increase your own social standing, scientists discover. Daily Mail. Link to article

Max Beilby (April 9, 2019). The Rise and Fall of the Dominant Leader. Darwinian Business. Link to article

Ad-Hoc Reviewing

Institutions:

National Science Foundation (U.S.A.): Cultural Anthropology

National Science Foundation (U.S.A.): Human Networks & Data Science

Scientific Journals:

Animal Behaviour

Anthropological Science

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Biological Reviews

Current Anthropology

Demographic Research

Ecology & Evolution

Evolution & Human Behavior

Evolutionary Anthropology

Evolutionary Human Sciences

Evolutionary Psychology

Hormones and Behavior

Human Nature

Hunter Gatherer Research

International Journal of Psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Journal of Social Computing

Methods in Ecology & Evolution

Nature Computational Science

Nature Scientific Data

PeerJ

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Sage Open

Scientific Reports

Social and Personality Psychology Bulletin

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Social Sciences

Scientific Presses:

Oxford University Press

SAGE