Role
Dr. Niki Khan lectures on the general topics of animal physiology, welfare, and genetics, and supervises undergraduate dissertations and postgraduate research projects.
She is the Module Leader for:
Career overview
Niki is a Senior Lecturer at NTU and a Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews, where one of her research lines focuses on stress and welfare of decapod crustaceans. She completed her PhD at La Trobe University in Australia (maternal stress in zebra finches) and then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Georgia (offspring sex ratio allocation in poultry, and anthropogenic effects on wild ibises) and the University of St Andrews (effect of soundscapes on captive zebra finches). She previously held lecturing positions at University College London in collaboration with Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), and Anglia Ruskin University, and worked for the Department of Conservation in New Zealand on endangered species breeding programmes.
Research areas
My research focuses on understanding how animals (both captive and free-living) cope with environmental change, as well as the cost:benefit aspect of life history trade-offs. I am particularly interested in stress, steroid hormones, reproductive fitness, and welfare. Recent and ongoing projects are in the following areas:
- Stress in decapod crustaceans
- Avian welfare
- Acoustic enrichment in captivity
- Stress and reproductive fitness
- Trans-generational impacts of maternal steroid hormones
- Offspring sex ratio allocation
- Zoo animal behaviour
Press expertise
Niki has given radio interviews and contributed to news articles in:
- Behavioural Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ornithology
- Animal Behaviour
- Zoology
Course(s) I teach on
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Undergraduate | Full-time / SandwichCOURSE
Animal Biology - BSc (Hons)
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/animal-rural-and-environmental-sciences/ug/bsc-hons-animal-biology
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Undergraduate | Full-time / SandwichCOURSE
Agriculture - BSc (Hons)
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/animal-rural-and-environmental-sciences/ug/bsc-hons-agriculture